Surgical Technologist - Surgery

Monroe County Hospital & Clinics is proud to be named a Top Workplace by the Des Moines Register for the tenth year in a row, earning 5th place among mid-sized employers in 2025. We're also honored to receive the #1 Overall Award for Employee Training, recognizing our commitment to staff growth and development, along with the prestigious USA Today Top Workplace award. At MCHC, we put people first - our patients, our employees, and our community. 

Job Schedule

Full-time: Days, 36 - 40 hours (flex) per week. No Weekends. No on-call. No holidays. 

Job Description

Due to internal transitions, Monroe County Hospital & Clinics is seeking a full-time Surgical Technologist to join our Surgical team.

Primary duties for this position include:

• Decontaminates, assembles, wraps, and sterilizes instruments and instrument trays.
• Monitors biological and chemical wash solutions to ensure quality and consistently for decontamination and high-level disinfection of instruments and medical equipment.
• Sorts mismatched sets of instruments, trays, and medical equipment ensuring they are available to sterile processing customers in a timely manner.
• Restocks, labels, and helps maintain inventory of the anesthesia cart, crash cart, and facility medical equipment.
• Utilizes the two-bin system for reordering supplies, collecting and distributing instruments and instrument trays to various departments in the hospital.
• Performs environmental duties, including cleaning with approved disinfectant, setting up the operating room and endoscopy suite for procedures, and cleaning the sterile processing and equipment storage areas.
• Maintains good record keeping for sterilizers, high level disinfectants, and biological tests.
• Collects, transports, decontaminates, packages, and sterilizes instruments for other departments following policy and procedure guidelines.
• Assures that all instruments and equipment are cleaned, sterilized and ready for surgery.
• Sets up the surgery suite.  Assures that supplies are available as needed.
• Assists with various surgical procedures, under the direction of the surgeon, assisting physician, and OR Nurse.
• Accounts for all needles, sponges, and instruments used in the procedure.
• Assures correct sorting and checking of surgical linen supply.
• Assembles instrument and procedure packs and trays and maintains an adequate supply or each.
• Ability to function in central sterile to sterilize items according to policy concerning manufacturer and sterilizer recommendations. 
• Regular and reliable attendance.
• Ongoing compliance with MCHC educational and training requirements.
• Adheres to the MCHC mission, vision, values, and Standards of Behavior.
• Maintains patient and hospital confidentiality.
• Promotes and maintains positive relationships with patients, visitors, coworkers, and providers.
• Actively participates in department huddles, in-services, meetings, and educational opportunities.
• Follows all departmental policies and procedures and adheres to departmental budget.