What are the responsibilities and job description for the Sterile Processing Technician position at Grand Itasca Clinic & Hospital?
What You Can Expect:
Our Sterile Processing Techs love Grand Itasca for the stability, meaningful work and great team. If you are looking for professional growth and development with hands on experience caring for a diverse patient population, Grand Itasca is where you belong!
We're glad you are thinking about joining us
Grand Itasca is a great place for Sterile Processing Techs. We're a non-profit organization with a clear vision of being the leader in transforming rural health care by achieving the highest levels of quality, access, and value. Our strength stems from teamwork and collaboration among a talented and diverse group of professionals. With over 700 employees in hundreds of different roles, Grand Itasca can offer a variety of career opportunities.
Let's talk about benefits
- Competitive pay
- Tuition reimbursement and scholarship/grant opportunities
- Health, dental, vision, & life insurance kick in on the first of the month after 30 days of employment
- Generous paid time off package to maintain a healthy home-work balance
- STDB (short term disability bank)
- 401K with employer contributions
- No Weekends!
- Experience Pay Given
- Employee Referral Program
About the Position
- Sterile Processing Tech
- Part-time .7-1.0 FTE (56-80 hours per pay period)
- 8-hour shifts, Days
- Surgical Services/Clinic
- INTERNAL POSTING THROUGH: 11/10/2025
Job Summary:
The Sterile Processing Tech provides support services to all nursing departments. To clean, decontaminate, inspect, assemble, wrap, high level disinfects, or sterilize instrumentation, and distribute as necessary per AAMI and AORN standards while adhering to manufacturer instruction for use guidelines, maintaining equipment and supply stock, and delivery of appropriate supplies/equipment to the appropriate units of operating room suites.
Here's what you'll do when you join us:
- Responsible for the safe operation following manufacturer's IFU guidelines on the equipment used in the processing of surgical instrumentation. Responsible for accurate documentation and retention of the sterilization/disinfection records required following current policy and procedure.
- Tracking Operating Room turnover and cleaning OR rooms between cases per policy.
- Maintain knowledge of proper disposal of hazardous waste.
- Transport and Decontamination: Responsible for receiving, identifying, and decontaminating used surgical and patient care instrumentation and equipment.
- Assembly, Sterilization, and Storage; processes reusable instrumentation, utensils, scopes, and other reusable supplies.
- Report any issues or discrepancies to the Director.
- Prepares and restocks case carts for the OR cases.
- Participates in professional growth and self-development activities to ensure accountability for own professional practice.
- Participates in staff meetings, committees, and special projects; actively contributes to Surgical Services quality and development.
- May be scheduled as a sterile processing float daily, as applicable, and responsible for Operating Room turnover, specimen transport, endoscope cleaning, and other duties as assigned.
If you have these qualifications, we'd love to chat:
- Certification in sterile processing, or ability to obtain within 1 year of employment. If noncertified at the start of employment, education will be assigned through Purdue University or other accredited organization after a minimum of 400 hours of departmental experience in instrument handling, assembly, decontamination, and sterilization to help exemplify knowledge of the department. This will need to be completed to sit for the CRCST Exam.
- BLS Certification to be completed within two months of employment.
- Minimum of one-year sterile processing experience within the past five years required.
- Ability to work rapidly in constantly changing situations.
- Demonstrated ability to follow and adhere to Grand Itasca Clinic and Hospital policies, vision, mission and values.
- Maintains reliable and consistent attendance.
** If no candidates meet the above requirements, consideration will be given to those with 1 year of other health care related experience and/or experience/education that includes training in principles, methods, and sterilization processes including care and handling of surgical instrumentation and/or aseptic technique principles, sterile goods and equipment, and/or High school graduate or equivalent. Required to obtain certification in Sterile Processing within the first year of employment.
About Grand Itasca:
Grand Itasca brings the benefits of a large and respected health system to our local community. We are a non-profit, state-of-the-art, integrated clinic and hospital that is proud to offer a range of high-quality providers, specialties and services to our community. Enjoy our patient-centered, comprehensive approach, close to home without venturing from the beauty of northern Minnesota.
EEO/AA Employer/Vet/Disabled All qualified applicants will receive consideration without regard to any lawfully protected status.