Anesthesia Technician

Job Summary:

As an Anesthesia Technician with SSM Health, you will play a vital role in ensuring the smooth operation of our anesthesia equipment and supplies. Your attention to detail and ability to work in a fast-paced environment will make you an asset to our team.

Responsibilities:

• Check, clean, and maintain anesthesia machine monitors, including changing oxygen cylinders, refilling anesthesia gases, and ensuring equipment is in good working order.
• Assist in setting up anesthesia equipment as needed.
• Order, obtain, and stock sterile solution surgical supplies to specified storage cabinets, including automated dispensing systems/cabinets.
• Order and maintain inventories of supplies in anesthesia and related areas, ensuring anesthesia carts are appropriately stocked.
• Ensure malfunctioning equipment is serviced and proper infection control and regulatory guidelines are followed.
• Assist in operating room turn-over by disinfecting anesthesia work surfaces, monitor cables, and connecting a clean anesthesia circuit to the anesthesia machine.
• Work in a constant state of alertness and safe manner.

Requirements:

• High School diploma/GED or 10 years of work experience.
• No experience required.

Physical Requirements:

• Constant standing and walking.
• Frequent lifting/carrying and pushing/pulling objects weighing 0-25 lbs.
• Frequent reaching and gripping.
• Occasional bending, stooping, climbing, kneeling, squatting, twisting, and repetitive foot/leg and hand/arm movements.
• Occasional lifting/carrying and pushing/pulling objects weighing 25-50 lbs.
• Occasional use of hearing and speech to share information through oral communication. Ability to hear alarms, malfunctioning machinery, etc.
• Occasional use of smell to detect/recognize odors.

Required Professional License and/or Certifications:

• State of Work Location: Illinois, Missouri, Oklahoma, Wisconsin.
• Basic Life Support HealthCare Provider (BLS HCP) - American Heart Association (AHA).

Work Shift: Day Shift (United States of America).

Job Type: Employee.

Department: OR Anesthesia.

Scheduled Weekly Hours: 0.

SSM Health is an equal opportunity employer. SSM Health does not discriminate on the basis of race, color, religion, national origin, age, disability, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, pregnancy, veteran status, or any other characteristic protected by applicable law.