Sterile Processing Supervisor - Lead Operations

MemorialCare Health System; Long Beach (CA); On-site; USD 54,000 - 80,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Signing bonus (external hires)

Job summary

MemorialCare Health System in Long Beach, CA seeks a Sterile Processing Supervisor to lead daily operations, ensure regulatory compliance, and manage staff and instrumentation across the department. You will drive quality, efficiency, and patient safety through staffing plans, performance evaluations, and process improvements.

The role emphasizes collaboration with OR leadership, infection prevention, and clinical teams, with focus on operational excellence in a fast-paced, patient-centered

Qualifications

• Bachelor's degree in business administration or equivalent.
• Healthcare Sterile Processing Association (HSPA) or Certification Board for Sterile Processing and Distribution (CBSPD) required.
• Certified Healthcare Leader (CHL) preferred.
• Minimum 4 years' relevant experience preferred.
• Minimum 3 years' day-to-day leadership experience is preferred.
• Experience with regulatory compliance (AAMI, AORN, TJC, OSHA) and quality assurance processes.
• Experience collaborating with OR leadership, surgeons, and clinical teams preferred.
• Experience using and overseeing instrument tracking systems preferred.

Responsibilities

• Provides direct supervision and leadership to Sterile Processing personnel, ensuring staff performance meets departmental, regulatory, and organizational expectations.
• Develops staffing plans, prepares and manages work schedules, monitors productivity, and allocates resources to ensure effective operational coverage and service delivery.
• Conducts employee performance evaluations, provides coaching and performance feedback, addresses attendance and conduct concerns, and administers corrective action in collaboration with Human Resources.
• Recruits, interviews, selects, trains, develops, and retains qualified staff to support departmental objectives and workforce succession planning.
• Maintains accountability for departmental compliance with manufacturer Instructions for Use (IFUs), AAMI, AORN, OSHA, TJC, CMS, infection prevention requirements, and organizational policies and procedures.
• Directs departmental quality assurance activities, including audits, sterilization monitoring, documentation review, process validation, corrective action planning, and performance improvement initiatives.
• Establishes operational priorities and oversees department activities to ensure timely and accurate instrument reprocessing, equipment availability, and customer service support for procedural areas.
• Develops, monitors, analyzes, and reports departmental quality, productivity, turnaround-time, inventory, and customer service metrics, implementing improvement strategies as necessary.
• Oversee orientation, competency assessment, continuing education, certification support, and professional development activities to maintain a qualified and engaged workforce.
• Ensure processes are established and maintained for the management of surgical instrumentation, specialty equipment, loaner instrumentation, sterile supplies, and associated inventories.
• Evaluates operational workflows and leads process improvement initiatives designed to improve quality, safety, productivity, regulatory compliance, and resource utilization.
• Collaborates with physicians, Operating Room leadership, Infection Prevention, Supply Chain, vendors, and other stakeholders to resolve operational issues and improve service delivery.
• Ensures effective utilization of instrument tracking technology to support traceability, compliance, inventory management, operational visibility, and data-driven decision-making.

Skills

Leadership

Regulatory compliance

Staffing/scheduling

Quality assurance

Team collaboration

Education

Bachelor's degree in business administration

Tools

Instrument tracking systems

Job description

MemorialCare Health System in Long Beach, CA seeks a Sterile Processing Supervisor to lead daily operations, ensure regulatory compliance, and manage staff and instrumentation across the department. You will drive quality, efficiency, and patient safety through staffing plans, performance evaluations, and process improvements.

The role emphasizes collaboration with OR leadership, infection prevention, and clinical teams, with focus on operational excellence in a fast-paced, patient-centered