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Stain and Glaze Dental Technician, Experienced

Ziemek Dental Laboratory Inc
Tumwater, WA Full Time
POSTED ON 10/25/2025
AVAILABLE BEFORE 12/24/2025

Ziemek Dental Laboratory, a full-service dental lab with nearly 30 years of industry experience, is hiring! We have an immediate opportunity for an experienced Dental Technician to join our team.

This role requires an experienced technician to stain and glaze full contour crowns that they can skillfully fit to a model and dies, which can include crowns, bridges, veneers, inlay, and/or onlay. Our lab is digitally focused, so you will be able to expand your skill set working with the latest technology and processes.

Primary Duties include:

  • Read and understand customer prescriptions and work orders.
  • Finishing zirconia or lithium disilicate to the dies and model.
  • Staining zirconia or lithium disilicate to match requested shades/photos. Staining gingiva.
  • Utilizing technology to properly shade match a crown.
  • Communicating and problem solving with teammates to relay any technical challenges as needed.
  • Operating equipment to achieve successful production processes and outcomes.
  • Moving cases through Quality Control per our processes.

Requirements:

  • Minimum of one-year dental lab experience, and skilled in staining and glazing to match shade tabs and photos.
  • Strong knowledge of tooth anatomy; knowledge of margins, occlusion and contacts to skillfully fit crowns to models and dies
  • Experience working with equipment including but not limited to handpieces, microscopes and porcelain ovens.
  • Experience with operational lab software preferred.
  • Ability to distinguish colors, shade/gradation and pass an eye color test
  • Ability to work successfully both on a team and autonomously.
  • Reliable – excellent attendance and punctuality.

Pay: $22 - $28 per hour, DOE

Comprehensive Benefits Package: Medical, HSA, EAP, Voluntary Dental, Voluntary Vision, LTD, Life and AD&D Insurance, 401(k), Paid Time Off (accrue one hour for every 40 hours worked), 6 Paid Holidays.

To learn more about us and the work we do, check out our Ziemek Video.

Salary : $22 - $28

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