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Sterile Processing Technician

SSM Health
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Sterile Processing Technician 

Job Highlights:
Join a team where your work matters - every moment, every patient, every community. At SSM Health, you'll be empowered to grow, supported to thrive, and inspired to make a lasting impact.

As a Sterile Processing Technician, you'll be an essential partner to surgeons, nurses, and procedural staff by ensuring instruments and equipment are cleaned, inspected, assembled, and sterilized to the highest standards. We're looking for detail-oriented individuals who thrive in a fast-paced environment, value teamwork, and are committed to safety and quality.
 

Department: Sterile Processing Location: SSM Health St. Mary's Hospital - Madison, 700 S Brooks St, Madison, WI 53715 
Schedule: 40 hours per week / Evening Shift - 3pm-11:30pm (Monday-Friday) - 1 weekend per month and 1 holiday per year 

Job Summary:

Inspects, assembles and evaluates all surgical instruments and instrument sets to ensure proper sterilization, completeness of set, and to determine need for repair/replacement.

Job Responsibilities and Requirements: 

  1. Performs decontamination of soiled instruments, sterilization containers and equipment according to established protocols.
  2. Inspects instruments, equipment and containers to assure cleanliness and proper functioning.
  3. Corrects instrument sets according to current standards and established count sheets and/or instrument tracking systems.
  4. Maintains proper levels of inventory to ensure availability for case carts.
  5. Works in a constant state of alertness and safe manner.
  6. Performs other duties as assigned.

EDUCATION

High School diploma/GED or 10 years of work experience
 

EXPERIENCE

No experience required
 

PHYSICAL REQUIREMENTS

  • Constant standing and walking.
  • Frequent lifting/carrying and pushing/pulling objects weighing 0-25 lbs.
  • Frequent reaching and gripping.
  • Frequent use of vision and depth perception for distances near (20 inches or less) and far (20 feet or more) and to identify and distinguish colors.
  • Occasional bending, stooping, climbing, kneeling, squatting, twisting and repetitive foot/leg and hand/arm movements.
  • Occasional lifting/carrying and pushing/pulling objects weighing 25-50 lbs.
  • Occasional use of hearing and speech to share information through oral communication. Ability to hear alarms, malfunctioning machinery, etc.
  • Occasional use of smell to detect/recognize odors.
  • Rare crawling, sitting and keyboard use/data entry.
     

REQUIRED PROFESSIONAL LICENSE AND/OR CERTIFICATIONS

None
 

Department: 3100000007 Sterile Processing 
Work Shift: Variable Shift (United States of America) 
Scheduled Weekly Hours: 40
 

SSM Health is an Equal Opportunity Employer. SSM Health provides equal employment opportunities to all employees and applicants for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex, gender, pregnancy, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, age, disability, protected veteran status, genetic information, or any other characteristic protected by applicable federal, state, or local law.