Sterile Processing Technician I — Evening Trauma Care

Banner Health Corporate; Glendale (AZ); On-site; USD 36,000 - 54,000; Full time

Job summary

Banner Health is seeking a Sterile Processing Technician in Glendale, Arizona, to support the operating room team by ensuring sterile instrumentation is ready for procedures. You will handle decontamination, assembly, packaging, and sterilization of surgical instruments, while maintaining logs and quality records.

The role requires the ability to read schedules and instrument terminology, communicate effectively, and rotate shifts as needed.

Qualifications

• Minimum one (1) year experience as a Sterile Processing Technician OR certified as an SPD Technician (CSPDT) or CRCST with less than one year of experience.
• Must have mechanical aptitude with the ability to break down moving parts, clean, lubricate and reassemble, problem solve incomplete trays and missing instrumentation and have effective organizational, communication and human relation skills.

Responsibilities

• Provides decontamination and sterile processing support to PeriOp Services, ED, ICU, hospital wide departments, and clinics both on and off campus, and ambulatory surgery centers.
• Responsible for the decontamination, assembly, and packaging of surgical instruments following established protocols, instructions for use (IFU) and performs required quality assurance, repairs, reassembly, documentation, sterility handling, and storage of specialized surgical instruments.
• Maintains required sterilization logs and quality assurance records relating to all equipment associated for the purpose of decontamination, HLD disinfection, and sterilization.
• Utilizes specialized equipment for the decontamination, high-level disinfection, and sterilization of surgical instrumentation according to the device and equipment manufacturer’s recommendations and hospital policy.

Skills

Mechanical aptitude

Effective communication

Organizational skills

Education

High school diploma/GED

Job description

Banner Health is seeking a Sterile Processing Technician in Glendale, Arizona, to support the operating room team by ensuring sterile instrumentation is ready for procedures. You will handle decontamination, assembly, packaging, and sterilization of surgical instruments, while maintaining logs and quality records.

The role requires the ability to read schedules and instrument terminology, communicate effectively, and rotate shifts as needed.