Lead Sterile Processing Technician

DHR Health; Brownsville (TX); On-site; USD 40,000 - 60,000; Part time

Job summary

DHR Health in Brownsville, TX is seeking a Sterile Processing Tech III for PRN day shifts. The role focuses on preparing, tracking, and sterilizing instruments, assembling trays for all hospital areas, and maintaining decontamination workflows.

You will perform quality checks, restock supplies, and support OR and SPD operations as a skilled, reliable team member. Responsibilities include arranging instruments on trays, documenting cycles, training new staff, and ensuring instrument availability

Qualifications

• High School diploma or GED required.
• 5 years’ experience as a sterile processing tech preferred.
• Must possess Central Service Processing Technician Certification or Certified Operating Room Technician.

Responsibilities

• Promotes the facility mission, vision and values by effectively communicating them to others.
• Orders and restocks sterilization supplies.
• Collects dirty equipment and instruments.
• Sorts, loads, unloads and decontaminates equipment and instruments per procedures.
• Cleans, repackages, and sterilizes instruments per procedures.
• Assembles trays, basin sets, packages, instruments and equipment and prepares items for sterilization.
• Decontaminates, restocks and assembles case carts and surgical trays.
• Ensures specialty carts are stocked and ready for immediate use.
• Performs quality control to assure sterilization equipment and instruments function properly.
• Inspects equipment, instruments, and packaging for cleanliness and defects.
• Documents sterilization cycles and labels products with sterilization date.
• Serves as a resource and preceptor for new staff.

Education

High School diploma or GED equivalent

Job description

DHR Health in Brownsville, TX is seeking a Sterile Processing Tech III for PRN day shifts. The role focuses on preparing, tracking, and sterilizing instruments, assembling trays for all hospital areas, and maintaining decontamination workflows.

You will perform quality checks, restock supplies, and support OR and SPD operations as a skilled, reliable team member. Responsibilities include arranging instruments on trays, documenting cycles, training new staff, and ensuring instrument availability