What are the responsibilities and job description for the Sterilization Team Lead position at Ezra Medical Center?
We’re Hiring: Sterilization Team Lead
📍 Brooklyn, NY | Full-time | On-site
Ezra Medical Center has proudly served the Brooklyn community for more than 18 years, providing compassionate, high-quality care across internal medicine, pediatrics, dental care, physical therapy, and vision services.
We’re looking for a dependable, detail-oriented Sterilization Team Lead to guide our clinical support team and help maintain the highest standards of instrument processing, infection prevention, and patient safety.
What you’ll do
- Lead and support the daily work of the sterilization team, coordinating priorities with providers and clinical staff.
- Ensure instruments and equipment are cleaned, decontaminated, sterilized, and prepared for clinical use according to established protocols.
- Operate autoclaves and monitor biological and chemical indicators to verify sterilization effectiveness.
- Maintain accurate sterilization workflows and ensure procedures follow organizational, OSHA, and applicable regulatory standards.
- Keep the sterilization area clean, organized, and safe.
- Monitor sterilization supplies and help ensure clinical rooms are stocked with properly processed instruments.
- Identify equipment issues, report maintenance needs, and communicate workflow updates to the team.
- Support training, consistency, and accountability across the sterilization team.
- Follow Ezra Medical Center’s policies, compliance program, and standards of integrity, teamwork, compassion, and excellence.
What we’re looking for
- High school diploma or equivalent.
- Hands-on experience sterilizing instruments in a medical office, dental practice, clinic, ambulatory surgery center, or hospital.
- Sterile Processing Technician training or certification is a plus, but not required.
- Strong attention to detail, organization, communication, and teamwork.
- Ability to prioritize tasks and work effectively in a fast-paced clinical environment.
- A commitment to infection prevention, patient safety, and maintaining a clean, organized workspace.
Candidates with practical sterilization experience are encouraged to apply, even if they do not hold a formal certification.
Why join Ezra Medical Center?
- Competitive salary
- Comprehensive benefits package
- Stable, full-time position
- Supportive team environment
- Opportunities for professional growth
- Meaningful work that contributes to patient safety every day
Benefits include: 401(k), health, dental, vision, life, and disability insurance, plus paid time off.
Work location: 3710 13th Avenue, Brooklyn, NY
Work setting: On-site
Interested in leading a team and helping deliver safe, high-quality care? Apply today and join Ezra Medical Center.
Learn more: www.ezramedical.org