SPD Tech III

California Hospital Medical Center; Los Angeles (CA); On-site; USD 42,000 - 60,000; Full time

Job summary

California Hospital Medical Center in Los Angeles is seeking a Sterile Processing Technician to decontaminate, assemble, sterilize and distribute surgical instruments and equipment, supporting safe patient care.

You will work under the Director of Surgical Services, ensuring sterility, proper packaging, and readiness of instruments for procedures across Orthopedics, ENT/Plastic/Ophthalmology, General Surgery, GYN/GU/Cardiothoracic, Neuro/Vascular.

Qualifications

• Fire Safety, within 90 Days
• High School Graduate or GED
• Three or more years Sterile Processing knowledge of surgical instrumentation. To perform successfully, an individual must be able to perform each essential duty satisfactorily
• Certified and Registered Central Service Technician or
• Certified Sterile Processing and Dist Supervisor or
• Certified Sterile Processing and Dist Tech

Responsibilities

• Decontaminate soiled instrumentation or equipment to prevent cross contamination.
• Ensure equipment distributed from Sterile Processing is in appropriate working order for use in direct patient care.
• Professionally assemble sterile items, instrument sets, floor trays and packaging for terminal sterilization.
• Achieve sterility using steam or Sterrad sterilization processes and know when to use each.
• Assist in the surgical case setup process across Orthopedics; ENT/Plastic/Ophthalmology; General Surgery; GYN/GU/Cardiothoracic; Neuro/Vascular.

Skills

Sterile Processing

Surgical instrumentation

Safety compliance

Quality control

Education

High school diploma or GED

Job description

Job Summary and Responsibilities

As our Sterile Processing Tech, you will play a pivotal role in ensuring the continuous availability of sterile, high-quality materials and equipment essential for patient care, consistently upholding our organizational vision and values.

Every day you will perform a variety of tasks under the general supervision of the Director of Surgical Services, focusing on the meticulous decontamination, assembly, packaging, sterilization, and distribution of purchased and reprocessed materials and equipment. Your work will directly support the hospital and affiliated facilities, ensuring a safe and quality product for patient care.

To be successful in this role, you must demonstrate a high level of precision and adherence to established procedures, ensuring customer satisfaction in the most cost-effective manner, while actively contributing to our organization’s commitment to quality patient care.

• Demonstrate an independent function in ensuring that soiled instrumentation or equipment delivered to the department is decontaminated in a manner that prevents cross contamination.
• Demonstrate an independent function in ensuring that the equipment distributed from the Sterile Processing Department is in appropriate working order for utilization in direct patient care.
• Demonstrate independent function in ensuring a sterile product by professional assembly of surgical items, instrument sets, floor trays and appropriate packaging in preparation for terminal sterilization.
• Demonstrate independent function in ensuring that sterility is achieved utilizing the sterilization process either steam, and sterrad. Demonstrate when to use each process.
• Demonstrate independent function in performing in the following areas of the surgical case setup process: Assembly/Packaging/Wrapping - Orthopedics; Assembly/Packaging/Wrapping - ENT/Plastic/Ophthalmology; Assembly/Packaging/Wrapping - General Surgery; Assembly/Packaging/Wrapping - GYN/GU/Cardiothoracic; Assembly/Packaging/Wrapping - Neuro/Vascular.

Job Requirements

Required

• Fire Safety, within 90 Days
• High School Graduate or GED
• Three or more years Sterile Processingknowledge of surgical instrumentation. To perform successfully, an individual must be able to perform each essential duty satisfactorily
• Certified and Registered Central Service Technician or
• Certified Sterile Processing and Dist Supervisor or
• Certified Sterile Processing and Dist Tech

Where You’ll Work

Founded in 1887, Dignity Health - California Hospital Medical Center is a 318-bed, acute care, nonprofit hospital located in downtown Los Angeles, California. Serving over 100,000 patients annually, the hospital offers a full complement of services including a Level II Trauma Center, Level III NICU, heart care, women’s health, and a family birth center. In 2025, we opened our new patient tower, Grand Tower, featuring a dramatically expanded Emergency Department and Family Birth Center that will increase patient comfort and privacy.

Additionally, California Hospital Medical Center has been recognized as an LGBTQ+ Healthcare Equality Leader by the Human Rights Campaign Foundation. It is a Joint Commission-certified Primary Stroke Center, and recently was awarded the AMA/ASA’s Get the Guidelines - Stroke Gold Plus Quality Achievement, recognizing the hospital’s commitment to providing the best stroke care.

California Hospital Medical Center shares a legacy of humankindness with Dignity Health and CommonSpirit Health, one of the nation’s largest health care systems, dedicated to providing compassionate, high-quality, and affordable patient-centered care. One Community. One Mission. One California