Certified Sterile Processing Tech

Department: Sterile Processing
Schedule: 40 hours per week, 11:00am – 7:30 pm, Rotating weekends and holidays.
On Call: 1 Weekend per schedule
Weekends: 1-2 per 6-week schedule.
Holidays: 1-2 per year
Hospital: Henry Ford Rochester Hospital
Location: Rochester, MI
Sign on bonus: $7,500.00
About the Department: Join our Rochester campus in one of Oakland County's most charming, historic communities, known for downtown shops, wineries, and top-rated schools. Rochester offers a small-town feel with big-system resources, plus an easy commute across northern Metro Detroit and nearby Auburn Hills. Here, you'll be part of a dedicated team ensuring the highest standards of sterile processing and surgical instrument readiness, supporting patient care across our healthcare system.
Role Overview: As a Certified Sterile Processing Tech, you play a critical role in maintaining the integrity of surgical instruments and equipment. You ensure all instruments are properly inspected, assembled, and sterilized, supporting surgeons, nurses, and patients by providing safe, ready-to-use tools for surgical procedures. Your work directly impacts patient safety and surgical success.
Why Henry Ford Health: At Henry Ford Health, we are relentless advocates for exceptional care for our patients, communities, and each other. We come to do meaningful work and grow our careers, and we stay for the connection, support, and shared pride in making the impossible, possible.
What You Will Do:
Operate sterilization equipment and inspect instruments, equipment, and containers to ensure cleanliness and proper functioning.
Perform decontamination of soiled instruments, sterilization containers, and equipment according to instructions for use (IFUs) and established protocols.
Correct instrument sets according to current standards, established count sheets, and/or instrument tracking systems.
Maintain proper levels of inventory to ensure availability for case carts.
Perform regular quality assurance program audits of peers.
REQUIREMENTS:
High School diploma equivalency OR 1 year of applicable cumulative job specific experience required.
Note: Required professional licensure/certification can be used in lieu of education or experience, if applicable.
One or more of the following required:
Central Service Tech specializing in Sterile Processing credentialed from the Healthcare Sterile Processing Association obtained prior to hire date or job transfer date.
Central Service Tech specializing in Sterile Processing credentialed from the Certification Board for Sterile Processing and Distribution (CBSPD) obtained prior to hire date or job transfer date.

Skills
Patient Care

Employment type
Full-time

Work arrangement
No