donor center technician

mobile technician

senior laboratory technician

blood bank supervisor

director of regulatory affairs

San Diego Blood Bank

Mission-Driven Work: Working at the San Diego Blood Bank has been an incredibly fulfilling experience. The organization’s mission to save lives by providing blood and blood products to those in need is truly inspiring. It's amazing to be part of an organization that has such a direct, positive impact on the community and helps to save countless lives. Every day feels meaningful knowing that the work we do makes a difference.

Great People: One of the best aspects of working at the San Diego Blood Bank is the people. The staff is incredibly passionate, dedicated, and caring. Everyone works as a team, and there’s a strong sense of camaraderie and mutual respect. From the leadership to the front-line staff, there’s a shared commitment to the mission, which makes collaboration and teamwork enjoyable. The positive work culture creates an environment where people are supportive and genuinely care for one another.

Work-Life Balance: The work-life balance at San Diego Blood Bank is fantastic. The organization understands the importance of personal time and is flexible when it comes to work schedules. Whether it's taking time off for personal reasons, family, or simply to recharge, the leadership supports employees in maintaining a healthy work-life balance. This flexibility has been crucial in allowing me to manage both my professional and personal responsibilities effectively.

Overall, San Diego Blood Bank is an outstanding place to work—an organization driven by an incredible mission, filled with compassionate people, and with a great work-life balance. I highly recommend it to anyone who’s looking to make a difference in the community while working in a supportive and dynamic environment.

A typical day at work at the San Diego Blood Bank consisted of billing customers, following up on past due accounts, updating various excel spreadsheets, and assisting upper management with projects involving fiscal year budgets and month end bank reconciliations.  

I have learned how to be more proficient with Excel and have sharpened my skills learning various accounting practices such as the bank reconciliations and customer service skills following up with past due accounts.

My co-workers are very supportive and creative with working together to form a great working environment.  Management is helpful with assisting and implementing cross-training with staff for further growth and coverage within the organization.

The hardest part of the job is managing your time between cross-training and having your daily routine work schedule done at the same time.

The most enjoyable part of the job is working with professional, fun, and friendly staff and knowing you are working for a company that supports and assists the community involving blood distribution and supplies to those in need of the services.

I would not advise anyone to take a position with this company. This is the most toxic environment I have ever worked in.  The favoritism runs rampant, and you will definitely notice and feel the difference in how you are treated if you are not one of the chosen ones. People who work hard and keep their head down hardly get noticed, but if you suck up to those who have the power, even if you are lazy, bad at your job and break the standards and protocols set by the company you are rewarded. They are constantly understaffed and do not care how burnt out you are, and even try to justify the understaffing. The turnover rate here is extremely high and new hires don’t last longer than a few months before they find something else. 

The mission itself, is great. It feels amazing to be able to help people who are in need every single day and seeing how many people voluntarily come in and let you take their blood, even as early as 8am on Saturday and Sunday mornings. You oftentimes go to other companies for blood drives and see how great people are treated and it makes you wonder.. It's a shame that at the end of the day, you are nothing but a number to these people. 

Being a part of Mobile Collections for almost Nine years was a fun experience for me. I would have to say that mobile staff is great and I'm so grateful to have been a part of the unity that we all had together as a whole. I was lucky to have had the best team and co-workers. Mobile collections was always a new adventure, a different place each day which gave me the opportunity to meet so many wonderful people and see so many different places in our community. To work on mobiles you have to be extremely flexible in the hours you work and the environment you work as well. The best part of this job was knowing that I was able to help save lives and get to know the patients and families of the lives I was helping to save. Truly the most rewarding job I have had.

Typical day at work: Start by preparing and making sure all the computers were on and the stations and machines were set up. Check donors in, take their vitals, Pt history, label their bags and donor card, draw blood, sometimes into a unit bag sometimes on the aphaeresis machines, dc donors and send them to the canteen to be monitored for 15 minutes. I learned so much at the blood bank I was able to work in ever area from registration to aphaeresis to accounting. The management was absolutely great there, always there to see that I had every tool needed to be successful. The co-workers there were great as well every got along wonderfully and helped each other out whenever you needed. Hardest part was just learning all the different travel areas that the donors were and weren’t allowed to go to in order to donate. The most enjoyable part of my job there was the people; most of them were there because they wanted to be. The donors were great and a lot of fun; it was my pleasure to be of service to them.

Extremely flexible and understanding department ( components lab ) that really cares about their team and makes the effort to assist accommodate as best as they can. I had a multitude of events that made working a consistently solid work week difficult. Instead of doing what most companies do, and cut you lose, they to time and made the effort to hear me out and then acknowledged what was happening and realistically understood while keeping business business and personal matters separate. They genuinely shared their concerns and even went as far as donating clothes for me when things were rough. My supervisor gave me his very nice and I'm sure not cheap at all leather jacket he wasn't using to help ensure I wasn't without something to stay warm while being outdoors. 

I truly enjoyed the mission of the company. Being able to have a bigger goal of working within the community and have affect across the country is amazing. You are a part of a bigger picture while working at San Diego Blood Bank. There are so many different departments that you can be apart of and allow you to have growth in the company. Management in the department I work in was great as it was very tightly knit and management made it comfortable to speak too. Hardest part of the job would be following all the SOPs to perfection to lessen the amount of QIRs you have. 

There are two different worlds working here, the people upstairs who make decisions for departments they have no clue about what they do & the people who work downstairs giving their blood, sweat, outside lives, and tears. Regarding the downstairs-  no raises, no bonuses, no departmental meetings,  management lacks job & communication skills, no room for growth what so ever. Upstairs- parties all the time,  yoga, bonuses. The culture you ask,  there is none. You literally have to call out just to get days off because your request off days will get denied. Managers gossip about staff & retaliate all the time & goodluck getting help from HR. They never answer emails nor phone calls. Stay away. The only good thing about this place are the downstairs workers.

Management here doesn't care about the employees or donors, they through out our safety during the pandemic by letting all the donors pack there gateway building unless an auditor came, terrible pay, and raises, they lie all the time, saying during the pandemic they couldn't cancel appointments, but when the managers had to work because a major call-out they cancelled those appointments within 2 hours. They couldn't handle to work but they want us to suffer, they exploit there employees and donors really they only care about profit. They are way above profit and we get a 10 cent raise while upper management gets all the bonuses. 

There is no support for quality. There are a lot of mistakes that cause  discarding several units of blood very often and management covers up these errors.
Employees are not valued and there is no incentive for working hard. The employee morale is very low. Internal politics and miscommunications between departments are causing frustration and confusion to employees. Upper management is corrupt and they don'y work towards the company's mission of providing quality products. 

Cons: lack of quality. lack of communication. corrupt upper management. internal politics and drama that get in the way of quality.

Top Job Titles	Average Salary
Donor center technician 7 salaries reported	$19.49 per hour
Mobile technician 6 salaries reported	$18.00 per hour
Senior laboratory technician 3 salaries reported	$18.33 per hour
Blood bank supervisor 3 salaries reported	$20.55 per hour
Director of regulatory affairs 1 salary reported	$131,500 per year

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