Equipment Processing Tech / Certified

Location: Gratiot, OH | Schedule: Full-time, on-site (varied shifts with rotating weekends and holidays) | Compensation: $18.50hr-$25.00ht per year depending on experience

Overview

A top-ranked hospital in a rural east central Ohio community, within reach of a nearby city, is seeking a Certified Equipment Processing Tech to join its Central Service team. This role is essential to ensuring instruments and equipment are properly cleaned, sterilized, and ready to support high-quality patient care.

What you'll do

• Clean, disinfect, and terminally sterilize instruments and equipment
• Maintain knowledge of the function, operation, and maintenance of instrumentation and equipment used for diagnostic and therapeutic procedures
• Accurately assemble all components of trays used within area of responsibility
• Keep the equipment coordinator informed of any problems or suspected problems with equipment and instruments in the assigned area
• Use various sterilization processes, including steam, Sterrad, and Steris
• Maintain event-related sterility according to procedure
• Demonstrate understanding of the decontamination and sterilization process for instruments and equipment used throughout the hospital
• Demonstrate understanding of instruments and instrument trays used daily and their maintenance
• Correctly use the hospital's instrument tracking system in each area
• Report to the Central Service Manager

Required qualifications

• High school diploma or equivalent required
• Certified in Sterile Processing and Distribution, or obtain certification within two years of employment
• Knowledgeable of medical terminology

Compensation and benefits

• Full time position with varied shifts, including rotating weekends and holidays
• Pay range of $18.50hr-$25.00ht per year depending on experience
• Full benefits package including Medical, Dental, Life, and PTO
• Relocation assistance

Why this role

This is an opportunity to join a collaborative healthcare team in a beautiful rural setting close enough to a big city, delivering high-quality care to the community while working under a well-respected Central Service Manager.