Dental Sterilization Technician

Join Affordable Dentures & Implants and Help Create Healthy, Confident Smiles!

Affordable Dentures & Implants is seeking a detail-oriented Sterilization Technician to support our clinical team in delivering exceptional patient care. This role is responsible for cleaning, disinfecting, sterilizing, and maintaining dental instruments and equipment while ensuring compliance with infection prevention standards. The ideal candidate thrives in a fast-paced environment, works independently, and takes pride in maintaining a safe, organized, and efficient clinical setting.

Why Join Our Team?

• Support a collaborative team dedicated to exceptional patient care
• Opportunity to work in a specialized dental practice focused on dentures and dental implants
• Ongoing training and professional development opportunities
• Fast-paced, team-oriented work environment
• Make a meaningful impact by ensuring safe, high-quality patient care

What You'll Do

As a Sterilization Technician, you'll play a critical role in supporting the clinical team by ensuring instruments, equipment, and treatment areas are properly cleaned, disinfected, sterilized, and prepared for safe, high-quality patient care in a fast-paced dental practice.

• Scrub, wash, disinfect, and decontaminate surgical and dental instruments to remove biological debris
• Operate autoclaves and other sterilization equipment according to established protocols
• Assemble, inspect, package, label, and store sterile instruments and supplies
• Prepare, set up, and break down treatment rooms before and after patient procedures
• Maintain sterilization records and monitor equipment performance
• Track inventory of sterile instruments and clinical supplies to ensure adequate availability
• Maintain cleanliness and organization of sterilization areas and clinical workspaces
• Dispose of contaminated materials following OSHA and infection control guidelines
• Support dentists and clinical staff by ensuring instruments and equipment are available for patient care
• Perform additional duties to support daily clinical operations

Qualifications

Required:

• High School Diploma or GED
• Ability to work independently and manage multiple priorities
• Strong organizational and communication skills
• Commitment to infection prevention and patient safety
• Ability to work in a fast-paced clinical environment

Preferred:

• Previous sterile processing or dental sterilization experience
• Experience operating autoclaves or sterilization equipment
• Knowledge of dental instruments and medical terminology
• Experience with inventory management in a healthcare setting
• Familiarity with OSHA, CDC, and AAMI standards

We're Looking For Someone Who Is:

• Friendly, professional, and compassionate
• Detail-oriented and highly organized
• Comfortable managing multiple priorities
• Passionate about delivering exceptional patient experiences
• Dependable, motivated, and eager to grow within a successful dental practice

Physical Requirements

• Ability to stand, walk, bend, reach, and sit for extended periods throughout the workday
• Ability to lift and move up to 50 pounds occasionally
• Ability to work safely in a clinical environment while following OSHA and infection control protocols

If you're someone who enjoys providing exceptional patient care and wants to grow your career in a specialized practice, we'd love to hear from you. Apply today and become part of a team dedicated to transforming lives—one smile at a time.

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Benefits

We care about our employees and understand the hard work that goes into providing the best-in-class patient care. You will be provided the training needed to provide you with the support you need to do your job well. Additional benefits include group medical and dental insurance, vision insurance, life insurance, flexible spending (health and dependent care), 401(k), 9 paid holidays off, 10 days of vacation, and 5 additional PTO days. We also offer ancillary benefits to include hospital indemnity, accident, and critical illness insurance options.

About Affordable Care

Founded in 1975, today Affordable Care, LLC is America's largest dental support organization (DSO) focused on tooth replacement services, serving more than 360 dental practices across the United States. Supported practices primarily concentrate on extractions, dentures, implants, and fixed arches, with some practices housing an on-site laboratory to enable same-day dental services. Affordable Care is the DSO for several top dental brands including, but not limited to, Affordable Dentures & Implants, DDS Dentures + Implant Solutions, and Advanced Dental Implant Centers. From the Affordable Care Support Center, located in North Carolina's Research Triangle Park, along with field-based teams, Affordable Care provides business expertise and support services to dental practices, taking care of non-clinical duties so dentists can focus on treating patients.