First Line Processing Technician
Listing reference: sanbs_002978
Listing status: Under Review
Apply by: 7 October 2025
Position summary
Industry: Medical Technology
Job category: Health, Fitness, Medical and Optometry
Location: Umhlanga
Contract: Permanent
Business Unit: Mount Edgecombe
Remuneration: R 280,875.00
EE position: No
Introduction
To process blood donations into first line and specialised blood products within agreed time frames and achieve the quality standards required. To control and supply blood products to blood banks and ensure that service delivery to internal and external customers is optimised.
Job description
Key Performance Areas:
- Operational objectives
- Instrument and Laboratory Maintenance
- Quality and Risk objectives
- Customer Relations
- General functions
Competencies:
Cognitive
- Analytical thinking and attention to detail
- Problem solving
- Planning, organising and monitoring
Personal
- Ethical behaviour
- Personal Development
- Assertiveness
- Excellent orientation
- Flexibility / Adaptability
- Drive and belief in the cause
Interpersonal
- Customer Service Orientation
- Relationship Building
- Communication
- Engaging Diversity
- Teamwork
- Knowledge Sharing
- Conflict management
Prof technical
- Systems competence
- Technical skills / Competence:
- Laboratory skills
Principles of Excellence
- Customer service orientation
- Ethical behaviour
- Excellence orientation
- Engaging diversity
- Teamwork
Special Requirements:
- Overtime as and when required
- Shift and weekend duties as scheduled
- Local and nation travel
- Generally physically healthy and reasonable endurance and mobility
- Detail Conscious
- Proficient Eye-sight
Minimum requirements
Education:
- Matric with Mathematics and one science subject OR
- Laboratory Assistant Learnership
