Dental Sterilization Tech III Santa Monica

Clove Dental•Santa Monica, CA

12h

About The Position

The Dental Sterilization Tech III leads the daily sterilization workflow, ensuring dental instruments are cleaned, disinfected, packaged, sterilized, stored, organized, and available when needed without disrupting patient care. The role maintains sterilization equipment, testing, logs, and infection-control documentation and identifies missing or incomplete requirements. It also supports lab-case handling, including scanning and sending cases, and stocks clinical supplies and operatories. The position supports dental assistants and providers with basic room setup and breakdown, permitted clinical-support duties, and efficient treatment-room turnover. It maintains clean, organized clinical, sterilization, laboratory, and supply areas; follows Company, HIPAA, OSHA, and infection-control standards; and helps with phones and other office operations as needed. The role provides leadership and accountability for Sterilization Technician I–II team members and may support recruiting, events, social work, and marketing efforts.

Requirements

Appropriate training and legal authorization for X-ray setup and other permitted clinical-support duties.
Follow HIPAA, OSHA, infection-control, attendance, dress, name-badge, and other Company standards.
Be punctual, stay until close, and be willing to work as needed.

Responsibilities

Clean, disinfect, package, sterilize, organize, and properly store dental instruments according to Company infection-control protocols.
Lead the daily sterilization workflow and ensure instruments are properly processed and available when needed without disrupting patient care.
Maintain sterilization areas and equipment, required testing, logs, and infection-control documentation; identify missing or incomplete requirements.
Sterilize instruments and ensure cassettes are organized.
Monitor lab cases in the office and scan and send lab cases.
Stock operatories, sterilization areas, and clinical supplies; notify the appropriate team member when inventory is running low.
Support X-ray setup and other permitted clinical-support duties when appropriately trained and legally permitted.
Turn over treatment rooms quickly and thoroughly between patients, including disinfecting surfaces and preparing rooms for the next procedure.
Transport instruments, materials, and supplies between operatories and sterilization while maintaining separation of clean and contaminated items.
Maintain clean and organized clinical, sterilization, laboratory, and supply areas throughout the day.
Follow HIPAA, OSHA, infection-control, attendance, dress, name-badge, and other Company standards.
Support dental assistants and providers with basic room setup, breakdown, and non-clinical needs within the permitted scope of the role.
Support office cleaning, supply organization, and other clinical or operational duties as assigned.
Answer phones within two rings as needed when the front office is busy.
Arrive on time and stay until close; build schedules to support productive days and be willing to work as needed.
Refer new staff to the recruiting team and volunteer for events, social work, and marketing efforts.
Hold Sterilization Technician I–II team members accountable for completing assigned sterilization, turnover, stocking, and cleaning responsibilities to the required quality.