STERILE PROCESSING TECHNICIAN (FULL TIME)

Compass Group•Town of Mount Pleasant, NY

6d•$23 - $33•Onsite

About The Position

Crothall Healthcare is hiring a full-time Sterile Processing Technician at Westchester Medical Center in Valhalla, New York. The role performs reprocessing activities—including decontamination, sterilization, assembly, case cart preparation, storage, and distribution—for medical and surgical supplies and mobile equipment used in patient care. The schedule may be 7:00 a.m.–3:00 p.m., 3:00 p.m.–11:00 p.m., or 11:00 p.m.–7:00 a.m., with rotating weekends and holidays. The pay range is $23.00–$33.00 per hour. The technician cleans, inspects, assembles, sterilizes, tracks, and transports a wide range of reusable patient-care equipment, surgical instruments, supplies, and flexible scopes and probes. The role also operates sterilizing and decontamination equipment, prepares and labels packages and instrument trays, maintains records and equipment, conducts quality and performance tests, and reports damaged or defective supplies and equipment.

Requirements

Registered Central Service Technician (CRCST) certification required.
Flexible Endoscope Reprocessor (CFER) certification required.
Ability to push, pull, and lift more than 50 pounds.
Strong verbal and written communication skills.
A valid/active CSCRT certificate is listed as a requirement in the posting.

Nice To Haves

Associate degree in a related healthcare field preferred; college-level courses or related experience may substitute.

Responsibilities

Clean, decontaminate, inspect, assemble, sterilize, and transport equipment, supplies, and instruments.
Decontaminate reusable patient-care equipment and medical supplies, including surgical instruments, containers, aspirators, croupettes, oxygen suppliers, and small movable equipment.
Clean, decontaminate, inspect, high-level disinfect, assemble, and transport flexible fiberscopes, TEE probes, manometer probes, bougies, and similar devices.
Sterilize instruments, equipment, surgical linens, and supplies using steam or gas sterilizers, or disinfect them with antiseptic solutions.
Operate sterilizing equipment, mechanical decontamination equipment, ultrasonic washers, and rinsers/dryers.
Prepare, wrap, label, and seal packages of supplies and instrument trays according to established procedures and standards.
Prepare package contents lists and affix them to packages; use the central system for supplies being processed.
Gather used supplies from hospital facilities or departments and return them after sterilization.
Handle exchange carts for stock items and supplies and maintain distribution records.
Report defective or damaged materials, equipment, and supplies to a supervisor.
Maintain cleanliness of exchange carts, the work environment, sterilizers, washers, and other department equipment.
Perform quality and performance testing on sterilizers, washers, and high-level disinfection equipment.
Use tracking software to track instrumentation and equipment and maintain accurate sterilization records.
Test powered surgical equipment before sterilization using a power unit or nitrogen tanks.
Perform leak tests on flexible endoscopes.
Perform other duties as assigned.