Sterile Technician Jobs

About The Position

Requirements

• High school diploma or GED.
• 2–5 years of experience.
• Certified Registered Central Service Technician (CRCST) certification.
• Ability to clean, inspect, disinfect, and sterilize complex surgical instrumentation, implants, and power equipment according to industry standards.
• Ability to support complex endoscopic device disinfection and troubleshoot related issues.
• Ability to manage multiple priorities and adapt to changes in the surgical case schedule.
• Ability to use and troubleshoot specialized processing equipment and electronic tracking, inventory, and scheduling systems.

Nice To Haves

• Associate degree or trade school equivalent.
• Bachelor's degree.
• 5–10 years of experience.
• Less than 2 years of supervisor experience.
• Certified in Healthcare Leadership (CHL).
• Certified Instrument Specialist (CIS).

Responsibilities

• Assist the supervisor in ensuring staff compliance with productivity and quality measures, standard work procedures, and best practices across scope reprocessing, decontamination, assembly, sterilization, case cart assembly, sterile storage, and remote OR locations.
• Assist with onboarding, training, and orientation of new employees.
• Process complex tray configurations for a level 1 trauma and academic center and its surgical services, including ophthalmology, neurosurgery, ENT, trauma, transplant, cardiac, orthopedic, labor and delivery, fetal surgery, general surgery, minimally invasive, and robotic cases.
• Manage multiple priorities and adapt to surgical case schedule changes throughout the day.
• Coordinate processing of vendor instrumentation to ensure completion before next-day surgical procedures.
• Use and troubleshoot specialized equipment, including instrument washers, cart washers, ultrasonic equipment, sterilizers, high-level disinfection equipment, and related accessories.
• Use instrument tracking and inventory management software with electronic medical scheduling systems to manage instrument inventory, prioritize instrumentation, and build case carts for just-in-time delivery to operating rooms.
• Provide cleaning, disinfection, and sterilization support for research and IRB-approved protocols.
• Function as charge in the supervisor's absence.
• Monitor electronic systems to prioritize tray production.

Benefits

• Medical insurance
• Dental insurance
• Vision insurance
• Life insurance
• Legal services
• Disability insurance paid for by BJC
• Annual 4% BJC Automatic Retirement Contribution
• 401(k) plan with BJC match
• Tuition assistance available on the first day
• BJC Institute for Learning and Development
• Health Care and Dependent Care Flexible Spending Accounts
• Paid Time Off combining vacation, sick days, holidays, and personal time
• Adoption assistance