Manager, Sterile Processing Services, Sterile Processing Department, Full Time, Day

01 The Valley Hospital; Paramus (NJ); On-site; USD 94,000 - 118,000; Full time

Job summary

Valley Health System seeks a System Manager to lead Sterile Processing Services across the health system, including SPD, MSA, and RMD reprocessing. You will ensure safe, ready instruments and devices for surgical procedures, standardize operations, and optimize resources.

Reporting to the Director of Perioperative Services, you will drive compliance, quality improvements, and fiscal stewardship while coordinating across campuses and future locations.

Qualifications

• Bachelor's degree in Healthcare Administration, Nursing, Business Administration, or related healthcare field.
• CRCST certification is required; CHL within two years of hire if not currently certified.
• CIS, CER and Lean Six Sigma are preferred.

Responsibilities

• Oversee operational leadership and management of Sterile Processing Services across Valley Health System.
• Standardize operations, optimize resources, and ensure regulatory compliance.
• Lead quality outcomes, performance improvement, and fiscal stewardship across SPD platforms.
• Provide administrative oversight of equipment, inventories, maintenance programs, and vendor service agreements.
• Support long-range equipment replacement planning for all campuses.

Skills

Leadership

Operations

Finance

Regulatory compliance

Contract management

Change management

Cross-functional collaboration

Education

Bachelor's degree in Healthcare Administration, Nursing, or related healthcare field

CRCST certification

CHL certification within 2 years

Lean Six Sigma (preferred)

Job description

Position Summary Responsible for the operational leadership and management of Sterile Processing Services across Valley Health System, including Sterile Processing Departments (SPD), Main Sterile Areas (MSA), reusable medical device (RMD) reprocessing, and system-wide sterile processing initiatives supporting the Main Campus, Ridgewood Campus, Luckow Pavilion, and future procedural locations. Reporting to the Director of Perioperative Services, the System Manager provides leadership for the daily operations of Sterile Processing Services across the health system, ensuring the timely availability of safe, sterile instrumentation and reusable medical devices that support surgical and procedural services. The Manager is responsible for standardizing operations, optimizing resources, maintaining regulatory compliance, improving quality outcomes, leading performance improvement initiatives, and ensuring fiscal stewardship across the sterile processing platform. The Manager provides administrative oversight of sterile processing equipment, reusable medical device inventories, sterilization technologies, equipment maintenance programs, vendor service agreements, instrumentation assets, operating budget, and supports long‑range equipment replacement planning across all Valley Health System campuses. The position Ensures operational reliability of sterile processing equipment and systems, ensuring the reliability, maintenance, regulatory compliance, and readiness of equipment, technology, instrumentation, and operational systems supporting patient care.

Education

Education Bachelor's degree in Healthcare Administration, Nursing, Business Administration, or related healthcare field required. Master's degree preferred. CRCST certification required. CHL required within two years of hire if not currently certified. CIS, CER and Lean Six Sigma preferred.

Experience

Experience Minimum five years progressive sterile processing leadership experience required. Minimum three years management experience in an acute care or integrated healthcare system preferred. Multi-campus leadership, regulatory compliance, budget management, quality improvement, and performance improvement experience required.

Skills

Skills Demonstrated leadership in operations, finance, regulatory compliance, contract management, change management, and multidisciplinary collaboration.

Job Location

Job Location The Valley Hospital-Paramus Shift Day (United States of America)

Benefits

• Medical/Prescription, Dental & Vision Discount Program (Full Time/Part Time Employees)
• Group Term Life Insurance and AD&D(Full Time Employees)
• Flexible Spending Accounts and Commuter Benefit Plans
• Supplemental Voluntary Benefits ( e.g. Short-term and Long-term Disability, Whole Life Insurance, Legal Support, etc.)
• 6 Paid Holidays, Paid Time Off (varies), Wellness Time Off, Extended Illness Retirement Plan Tuition Assistance Employee Assistance Program (EAP)
• Valley Health LifeStyles Fitness Center Membership Discount Day Care Discounts for Various Daycare Facilities

Salary

Salary Joining Valley Health System means becoming part of a dedicated team that values the highest quality of care in a supportive environment. In our commitment to high performance and reliability, we encourage and recognize exceptional individual performance through our industry leading compensation practices including a starting salary and benefits in accordance with your role, experience, education, and licensure. Actual individual salaries vary depending on these factors. The salary listed does not include other forms of compensation or benefits. Pay Range: $94,140.80 - $117,686.40 The posted pay range reflects the compensation for a full-time equivalent (1.0 FTE)

EEO Statement

EEO Statement Valley Health System does not discriminate on the basis of ancestry, age, atypical hereditary cellular or blood trait, civil union status, color, creed, disability, domestic partnership, gender, gender identity or expression, familial status, genetic information, liability for service in the Armed Forces of the United States, marital status, medical condition or illness, mental or physical handicap, national origin, nationality, perceived disability, pregnancy, race, refusal to submit to genetic testing or make available results of such tests, religion, sex, sexual orientation, veteran's status or any other protected basis, in accordance with all applicable Federal, State and Local laws. This applies to all areas of employment, including recruitment, hiring, training and development, promotion, transfer, layoff, compensation, benefits, social and recreational programs, and all other conditions and privileges of employment. Valley Health System is proud of our commitment to improving the lives of our patients, our staff, and the communities we serve. When you join Valley, you're joining a team of people who believe in delivering quality care in a supportive environment where top performance is both nurtured and recognized. Our culture is built on going the extra mile, doing what's right, and always striving to be better together.