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

Valley Health System; Paramus (NJ); On-site; USD 94,000 - 118,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Medical/Prescription, Dental & Vision

Group Term Life Insurance and AD&D

Flexible Spending Accounts

Short-term and Long-term Disability

Paid Holidays and PTO

Retirement Plan

Tuition Assistance

Employee Assistance Program (EAP)

Fitness Center Membership Discount

Day Care Discounts

Job summary

Valley Health System in Paramus, NJ is seeking an System Manager to lead Sterile Processing Services across the health system, including SPD, MSA, and reusable medical device reprocessing. You will ensure safe instrumentation availability, standardize operations, and manage budgets while driving quality improvements.

This role reports to the Director of Perioperative Services and requires CRCST certification, with CHL within two years if not certified, plus multi-campus leadership experience.

Qualifications

• Bachelor’s degree in healthcare field required; Master’s preferred.
• CRCST certification required; CHL within two years if not certified.
• Lean Six Sigma preferred.

Responsibilities

• Provide operational leadership for Sterile Processing Services across Valley Health System.
• Standardize operations and optimize resources; ensure regulatory compliance and quality outcomes.
• Oversee equipment, inventories, sterilization technologies, vendor service agreements, and budgets.
• Support long-range equipment replacement planning across campuses.

Skills

Leadership

Operations management

Regulatory compliance

Budget management

Change management

Education

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

Master’s degree 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

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

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

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

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

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

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, termination, layoff, compensation, benefits, social and recreational programs, and all other conditions and privileges of employment.