Responsibilities:

• Maintains surgical instrument sets and equipment and ensures proper sterile conditions.
• Cleans used instruments after surgery. (Process may require assembly and maintenance of some instruments for proper cleaning and sterilization).
• Ensures proper sterile conditions, orders supplies, stocks, and maintains storage areas in the Operating Room for service.
• Assists in transporting patients and room turnover.
• Assists RN in maintaining a safe environment for the patient.
• Interfaces daily with physicians, staff, vendor sales representatives, sterile processing, and storeroom as a necessary part of routine activities.
• Ensures proper storage and utilization of service equipment.
• Ensures service specific supply expiration dates are checked monthly.
• Coordinates and documents equipment repairs and loaner returns.
• Works as a liaison to educate staff in the proper use and functioning of equipment.
• Other duties as assigned.

Education:

• High School Diploma or GED equivalent.

Certifications:

• Basic Life Support (BLS) through American Heart Association (AHA) required, Sterile processing certification preferred.

Work Experience:

• Position requires critical thinking skills, decisive judgment and the ability to work with minimal supervision.
• Must be able to work in a stressful environment.

Physical Requirements:

• Requires full range of body motion to include handling and lifting patients, manual and finger dexterity and eye-hand coordination.
• Requires standing and walking for extensive periods of time.
• Frequently lifts and carries items weighing up to 25 pounds ad ability to push, pull, and navigate supply carts weighing up to 200 pounds.
• Requires corrected vision and hearing to normal range.

Personal Protective Equipment:

• Follows Standard Precautions using personal protective equipment as required for procedures.