Senior Dental Technician

Job Requisition :

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Allied Health

SOD-Care Plan & Restorative Science-Chair

Main Campus Jackson

Senior Dental Technician

Provide direction and instruction to dental students in appropriate phases of their clinical and pre‑clinical education. Contributes to dental student education alongside faculty, participating in pre‑clinical and clinical courses. Responsible for production of high‑quality dental prosthetics in movable prosthodontics including implant retained prosthesis.

Education and Experience

Required:

Graduate of an Accredited American Dental Association (ADA) Dental Technology program and three (3) years of related experience or High School diploma/GED and five (5) years of related experience.

Certifications, Licenses or Registration

Required:

N/A

Knowledge, Skills, and Abilities:

Serve as a proficient technology expert in order to assist faculty and students.

• Evaluates, corrects, and communicates model work with dental students, including modeling, mounting, and die trimming.
• Fabricate occlusal splints, ortho retention.
• Fabricate crown and bridge work.
• Fabricate dentures from impression to insert.
• Capable of producing high quality and exceptional prosthesis.
• Participates in instruction during pre‑clinical laboratory courses as it relates to laboratory technology.
• Digital denture and model fabrication.
• Coordinates cases with outside laboratories.
• Assists with denture fabrication – instructing dental students how to engage abutments, fabricate surgical guides, and set up and polishing.
• Assists with partial denture fabrication – guide framework designs, modeling, and final fabrications.
• Assists with crown and bridge fabrication – guides students on implant supported crown and bridge prosthetics, including instruction on parts that need to be ordered and case planning and model work.
• Work collaboratively with other members of the dental team to provide exceptional patient care.
• The duties listed are general in nature and are examples of the duties and responsibilities performed and are not meant to be construed as exclusive or all‑inclusive. Management retains the right to add or change duties at any time.

Physical and Environmental Demands

Requires frequent exposure to unpleasant or disagreeable physical environment such as high noise level and exposure to heat and cold, frequent handling or working with potentially dangerous equipment, frequent exposure to biohazardous conditions such as risk of radiation exposure, blood borne pathogens, fumes or airborne particles, and/or toxic or caustic chemicals which mandate attention to safety considerations, occasional activities subject to significant volume changes of a seasonal/clinical nature, constant work produced subject to precise measures of quantity and quality, frequent bending, occasional lifting and carrying up to 50 pounds, frequent crouching/stooping, occasional kneeling, occasional pushing/pulling, constant reaching, constant sitting, frequent standing, frequent twisting, and occasional walking.
(occasional-up to 20%, frequent-from 21% to 50%, constant-51% or more)

Full time

No

Hourly

100

Day

No

02/17/2026