Sterile Processing Technician: Precision Instrument Care

Phelps Health; Rolla (MO); On-site; USD 36,000 - 48,000; Full time

Job summary

Phelps Health is a healthcare system serving the heart of small-town Missouri. The Sterile Processing Technician role focuses on sterilization techniques and equipment operations within a hospital setting.

Responsibilities include decontamination, proper PPE usage, instrument sorting and cleaning, packaging integrity checks, and maintaining inventory while ensuring compliance with quality standards.

Qualifications

• High School diploma or equivalent required.
• Sterile processing experience preferred.
• Certification to be obtained within 1 year of employment.
• Attention to detail and ability to work under pressure.

Responsibilities

• Demonstrates principles of decontamination/sterilization.
• Correct use of personal protective equipment (gown, gloves, face mask, boots).
• Correctly sorts instrumentation for cleaning according to manufacturer’s specification.
• Correctly cleans CASE carts.
• Correctly inspects packages for integrity after sterilization.
• Demonstrates principles of sterilization.
• Correct use of biological and chemical sterilization indicators.
• Correctly sterilizes instrumentation according to manufacturer’s specifications.
• Accurately labels instrumentation.
• Correctly documents sterilizer loads and tests.
• Demonstrates knowledge of instruments and equipment.
• Correct assembly of instrumentation.
• Correctly tests instrumentation for optimal functioning.
• Notifies supervisor of broken and/or malfunctioning instrumentation and removes them from service.
• Correctly identifies specific department instrumentation ie. Surgery, obstetrics, and emergency services.
• Maintains daily inventory of equipment and supplies.
• Is attentive to detail and accuracy, is committed to excellence, looks for improvements continuously, monitors quality levels, finds root cause of quality problems, owns/acts on quality problems.
• Meets commitments, works independently, accepts accountability, handles change, stays focused under pressure, meets attendance/punctuality requirements.

Skills

Sterile processing

Decontamination

Sterilization techniques

Instruments handling

Quality control

Education

High School diploma or equivalent

Job description

Phelps Health is a healthcare system serving the heart of small-town Missouri. The Sterile Processing Technician role focuses on sterilization techniques and equipment operations within a hospital setting.

Responsibilities include decontamination, proper PPE usage, instrument sorting and cleaning, packaging integrity checks, and maintaining inventory while ensuring compliance with quality standards.