Radiopharmacy hiring where the detail has to be exact.
Quad Recruitment places authorized nuclear pharmacists, radiopharmacy technicians, QC staff and radiation safety leadership into commercial nuclear pharmacies, hospital nuclear medicine departments, PET production facilities and theranostics centers across all 50 states.
Nuclear Roles We Fill
- Authorized Nuclear Pharmacist
- Staff Radiopharmacist
- Theranostics Pharmacist
- Nuclear Pharmacy Technician
- PET & Cyclotron Production Tech
- Quality Control Technologist
- Radiation Safety Officer
- Dispatch & Logistics Coordinator
- Nuclear Pharmacy Manager / PIC
- Director of Radiopharmacy Ops Senior
Nuclear is the smallest candidate pool in pharmacy. Authorisation takes time to earn, the work sits behind licensing few pharmacists ever encounter, and in most metros the entire experienced population would fit in one room. Generic sourcing does not work here.
Four radiopharmacy environments, four different hires.
A commercial unit dose pharmacy serving forty imaging sites and a hospital radiopharmacy inside a single nuclear medicine department run on entirely different rhythms. We qualify candidates against the operation, the isotope mix and the shift pattern before anyone reaches your shortlist.
Commercial Nuclear Pharmacies
Centralised radiopharmacies preparing patient-specific unit doses overnight and delivering to imaging centers and hospitals before the first scan of the day.
Hospital Nuclear Medicine
Radiopharmacy embedded in a health system, working alongside nuclear medicine technologists, cardiology and oncology teams on live inpatient demand.
PET & Cyclotron Facilities
On-site isotope production and radiochemistry, where short half-lives and batch release schedules dictate the entire working day.
Theranostics & Therapy Centers
Radioligand therapy programs handling therapeutic isotopes, patient dosing support, shielding requirements and post-administration protocols.
Recruitment across the whole Nuclear operation.
Nuclear pharmacy roles divide along lines that do not exist anywhere else in the profession — production, quality, safety, logistics and clinical support each demand different people. Here is where we recruit.
Compounding & Unit Dosing
Generator elution, kit preparation, radiolabelling, activity calculation, decay correction and drawing patient-specific unit doses to prescribed activity at calibration time.
Sterile Handling & Aseptic Practice
Radiopharmaceutical preparation under sterility requirements, shielded containment, garbing, beyond-use dating and the standards governing handling and repackaging.
QC & Radiochemical Purity
Chromatography, radiochemical and radionuclidic purity testing, molybdenum and aluminium breakthrough checks, dose calibrator constancy and batch release documentation.
Radiation Safety & Licensing
Radiation safety officer duties, dosimetry, surveys and wipe tests, contamination response, waste decay storage, NRC and Agreement State licence maintenance.
Transport & Delivery
DOT hazardous materials shipping, shielded pig packaging, courier route planning and delivery windows calculated backwards from scan appointment times.
Consultation & Therapy Support
Prescriber consultation on agent selection, dosing for therapeutic isotopes, patient release criteria and supporting nuclear medicine and oncology teams.
The nearest neighbours are sterile and clinical.
Almost nobody trains directly into nuclear pharmacy. Candidates arrive from sterile compounding, where the aseptic discipline transfers cleanly, or from hospital pharmacy alongside nuclear medicine and oncology teams. If your search for an authorised pharmacist is stalling, those two markets are where the next one is likely to come from.
Sterile compounding & cleanroom
Radiopharmaceutical preparation is aseptic work carried out behind shielding. Pharmacists and technicians with genuine USP 797 competency already hold most of the technical foundation, which makes sterile compounding the most realistic pool to sponsor authorisation from when nobody authorised is available locally.
View compounding pharmacy recruitment →Hospital & oncology pharmacy
Hospital radiopharmacy sits inside the nuclear medicine department, and the growth in theranostics is pulling oncology pharmacists into radioligand therapy programs. Health system searches frequently need someone who can hold both the clinical conversation and the licensing responsibility.
View hospital pharmacy recruitment →
You are hiring from a very short list.
Post a nuclear pharmacist role and you will get applications from retail pharmacists who have read the title and little else. The genuinely qualified population in any metro is tiny, largely employed, and reached by direct approach rather than advertising. That is the work.
- Permanent nuclear pharmacy recruitment across all 50 states.
- Authorized nuclear pharmacist status verified at qualification stage.
- Direct approach into a market too small for job board advertising.
- Early morning, overnight and weekend production shift coverage.
- Radiation safety officer and licensing-responsible appointments.
- Support for theranostics program launches and new site openings.
Done by lunchtime, if you can face the alarm.
Nuclear pharmacists trade a very early start for an afternoon back, no retail counter and work that is genuinely technical. It suits some people completely and nobody halfway. We will be straight about the hours before you rearrange your life around them.
- Authorized nuclear pharmacist and staff radiopharmacist roles.
- Nuclear, PET production and QC technician opportunities.
- Honest answers on start times, on-call and weekend rotation.
- Guidance for pharmacists pursuing nuclear authorisation training.
- Routes into growing theranostics and radioligand therapy programs.
- Confidential support while you stay in your current role.
Nuclear pharmacy recruitment by state.
Radiopharmacies cluster around imaging demand and delivery radius, and licensing differs between NRC and Agreement States. Choose a region to see the states we cover and jump straight into local pharmacy jobs.
Northeast nuclear pharmacy recruitment
High imaging density across the metro corridor, strong academic nuclear medicine programs and several established PET production and theranostics centers.
New York
Commercial radiopharmacy and hospital nuclear hiring.
Massachusetts
Academic nuclear medicine and PET production recruitment.
Pennsylvania
Radiopharmacy and theranostics staffing.
New Jersey
Nuclear pharmacist and technician recruitment.
Maryland
Hospital nuclear medicine pharmacy hiring.
Connecticut
Radiopharmacy recruitment support.
Rhode Island
Nuclear pharmacy staffing support.
Delaware
Nuclear pharmacist and QC recruitment.
New Hampshire
Radiopharmacy roles across the state.
Maine
Hospital nuclear medicine coverage.
Vermont
Nuclear pharmacy recruitment.
West Virginia
Radiopharmacy and imaging support coverage.
Southern nuclear pharmacy recruitment
Large commercial radiopharmacy networks serving fast-growing imaging markets, plus major cancer centers driving theranostics and radioligand therapy demand.
Texas
Commercial radiopharmacy and theranostics hiring.
Florida
Nuclear pharmacist and technician recruitment.
Georgia
Radiopharmacy and PET production staffing.
North Carolina
Hospital nuclear medicine pharmacy recruitment.
Tennessee
Nuclear pharmacy and QC hiring.
Virginia
Radiopharmacy recruitment support.
South Carolina
Nuclear pharmacist and technician hiring.
Alabama
Nuclear pharmacy staffing statewide.
Louisiana
Radiopharmacy and imaging support recruitment.
Kentucky
Hospital nuclear medicine hiring.
Oklahoma
Nuclear pharmacy support.
Arkansas
Radiopharmacy recruitment across the state.
Mississippi
Nuclear pharmacy staffing support.
Midwest nuclear pharmacy recruitment
Home to several of the longest-established radiopharmacy operations and academic nuclear pharmacy training programs in the country, alongside major cyclotron facilities.
Illinois
Commercial radiopharmacy and hospital nuclear hiring.
Ohio
Nuclear pharmacist and technician recruitment.
Michigan
PET production and radiopharmacy staffing.
Minnesota
Academic nuclear medicine pharmacy recruitment.
Missouri
Radiopharmacy and isotope production hiring.
Indiana
Nuclear pharmacy recruitment statewide.
Wisconsin
Radiopharmacy and QC staffing support.
Iowa
Hospital nuclear medicine coverage.
Kansas
Nuclear pharmacy recruitment support.
Nebraska
Radiopharmacy and imaging support hiring.
North Dakota
Nuclear medicine pharmacy coverage.
South Dakota
Nuclear pharmacy recruitment.
Western nuclear pharmacy recruitment
Large delivery radii between radiopharmacies and imaging sites, significant PET and cyclotron capacity in the coastal metros, and rapidly expanding theranostics programs.
California
Commercial radiopharmacy, PET and theranostics hiring.
Washington
Nuclear pharmacist and technician recruitment.
Arizona
Radiopharmacy and imaging support staffing.
Colorado
Hospital nuclear medicine pharmacy recruitment.
Oregon
Nuclear pharmacy and QC hiring.
Utah
Radiopharmacy recruitment support.
Nevada
Nuclear pharmacy hiring and job search.
New Mexico
Nuclear pharmacy staffing support.
Idaho
Radiopharmacy and imaging coverage.
Montana
Nuclear medicine pharmacy recruitment.
Wyoming
Nuclear pharmacy hiring across the state.
Alaska
Remote nuclear medicine pharmacy coverage.
Hawaii
Nuclear pharmacy recruitment support.
Hiring nuclear pharmacy staff in your state?
Whether you are replacing an authorized nuclear pharmacist, staffing a PET production line or launching a theranostics program, Quad Recruitment can support your search across the United States.
Start your nuclear pharmacy job search.
Search by keyword, location or nuclear role type, or head directly to the Quad Recruitment job search page to view every current pharmacy opportunity.
Hiring beyond radiopharmacy?
Nuclear is one part of the picture. If your search crosses into compounding, hospital, specialty or pharmacy leadership, these pages cover the rest of what we recruit across the USA.
Nuclear pharmacy recruitment FAQs.
What nuclear pharmacy roles does Quad Recruitment fill in the USA?
We recruit authorized nuclear pharmacists, staff radiopharmacists, nuclear pharmacy technicians, PET and cyclotron production technicians, quality control technologists, radiation safety officers, nuclear pharmacy managers and directors of radiopharmacy operations across all 50 states.
What is an authorized nuclear pharmacist and why does it matter for hiring?
An authorized nuclear pharmacist has completed the didactic training and supervised practical experience in handling radioactive materials required for recognition on a radioactive materials licence. Because that authorisation takes substantial time to obtain, the pool of qualified candidates in any given market is small, and employers frequently choose between hiring an authorised pharmacist and sponsoring training for one.
Why do nuclear pharmacy shifts start so early?
Radiopharmaceuticals decay from the moment they are prepared, so unit doses have to be compounded, tested and delivered in time for the first imaging appointments of the day. Most commercial nuclear pharmacies begin production in the very early hours, and shift tolerance is one of the main factors determining whether a candidate stays.
Do you recruit for theranostics and radioligand therapy roles?
Yes. Theranostics is the fastest growing part of the market, and demand for pharmacists and technicians experienced in therapeutic radiopharmaceutical handling, dosing and administration support is rising well ahead of supply.
Do you recruit nuclear pharmacy technicians?
Yes. We recruit nuclear pharmacy technicians, radiopharmaceutical production technicians, PET and cyclotron production staff, quality control technologists and delivery coordinators. Broader technician searches sit on our pharmacy technician recruitment page.
How do I start a nuclear pharmacy search with Quad Recruitment?
Employers can start a hiring conversation here or call our US line on (857) 206-6893. Candidates can search current pharmacy jobs or contact us confidentially to discuss the market before applying anywhere.
Let's get your radiopharmacy covered.
Whether you are replacing an authorized nuclear pharmacist, staffing a PET production line or launching a theranostics program, Quad Recruitment can move on it this week.
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