Job Summary
Sterile Processing Technician, Sterile Processing — This position supports operating room readiness by ensuring sterile surgical instruments and disposable supplies are properly decontaminated, assembled, packaged, sterilized, documented, stored, and distributed. The role provides sterile processing support across perioperative services, emergency departments, intensive care units, clinical departments, clinics, and ambulatory surgery centers while maintaining established safety, quality, and infection control standards.
Job Details
- Schedule: Day shift, 8 hours per shift, with a minimum of 40 hours per week.
- Required Qualifications: High school diploma or equivalent working knowledge; mechanical aptitude with the ability to disassemble, clean, lubricate, troubleshoot, and reassemble equipment and instrumentation; ability to resolve incomplete trays and missing instrumentation; effective organizational, communication, and interpersonal skills; ability to stand, walk, bend, squat, reach, and stretch frequently; ability to lift supplies and equipment as required; adequate color vision; and ability to wear required protective clothing.
- Preferred Qualifications: Completion of national certification as a Sterile Processing Technician within one year of hire; additional related education or experience.
- Additional Information:
- Decontaminates, assembles, packages, sterilizes, inspects, tracks, and stores general and specialty surgical instrumentation.
- Maintains sterilization logs, quality assurance records, instrument tracking records, and inventory readiness.
- Interprets surgical schedules and medical terminology to identify instrumentation and disposable supply needs for scheduled procedures.
- Responds to urgent operating room requests, prioritizes instrumentation needs, and communicates special requirements to help minimize procedural delays.
- Operates sterilizers, automated instrument washers, ultrasonic cleaners, flush pumps, visualization devices, cart washers, and high-level disinfection equipment according to manufacturer instructions and established procedures.
- Performs quality assurance testing for flexible endoscopic scopes, transesophageal ultrasound probes, laparoscopic instruments, and other specialized surgical equipment.
- Maintains a clean and safe work environment by following Standard Precautions, infection control practices, personal protective equipment requirements, and manufacturer instructions for use.
- May be exposed to chemicals, noise, biohazardous materials, dust, fumes, smoke, heat, heights, or confined spaces.
- May be required to push carts and dollies weighing up to 500 pounds and lift items weighing up to 75 pounds.
- No on-call or weekend shifts are required.
Benefits
The benefits of taking a travel assignment with Cross Country include:
- Private housing or generous housing allowance
- Comprehensive health insurance with prescription coverage
- Dependent health insurance with prescription coverage
- Competitive salaries
- Referral bonuses
- Travel reimbursement
- 401(k) retirement plan
- Direct deposit/free checking
- Unlimited free CE credits
