**Job Description:**

This position is responsible for ensuring that all surgical supplies, instruments and equipment are properly inventoried, decontaminated, assembled, inspected, packaged, sterilized, stored, distributed and tracked in a quality / timely manner throughout the hospital. Will train to perform these duties independently and without close supervision.
Scope

1.Operates and monitors sterilization equipment.
2. Prioritizes daily tasked based on interpretation of surgical schedule, determining the requirement for instruments for each surgical case.
3. Disassembles carts and follows Universal Precautions for decontamination.
4. Sterilizes, disinfects durable medical equipment and instruments, packages clean supplies and instruments, maintains records for all instruments and transports sterilized items to the floor.
5. Assembles sterilized instruments and rechecks all instruments for cleanliness and/or impairment. Properly checks power equipmen...