SPD Technician

Interested in working for the Golden Isles’ healthcare provider and employer of choice?

Throughout the many locations that make up the Southeast Georgia Health System network, there is a common thread that pulls everything together: A team of committed professionals like you. These individuals appreciate the value of every person who walks through our doors, and are the key to our culture of Service Excellence.

As a SPD Technician, you will provide a variety of indirect patient-related services. You will prepare and assemble medical and surgical supplies, instrumentation, and equipment. You will maintain the sterile processing areas and receive and distribute surgical supplies and equipment within Southeast Georgia Health System. You will strive for service excellence with everyone with whom you come  For our team members, this is more than a career — it’s a calling.

You will be responsible for:

• Following established protocols for cleaning, disinfecting, preparing and packaging, or sterilizing, storing and transporting medical and or surgical supplies and equipment.
• Preparing and distributing surgical case carts according to physician preference lists and anticipated needs of the perioperative team. Responding to phone and/or in person requests by locating and delivering commodities to surgery or the requesting department in a timely manner.
• Following manufacture’s instructions and organizational policies and procedures when handling cleaning solutions, supplies and equipment and procedures to safely operate equipment used in the sterile processing areas.
• Monitoring, interpreting and documenting results of physical, chemical and biological indicators for all types of sterilizers in the sterile processing area.
• Conducting inventory, receiving, monitoring, and distributing medical and surgical supplies, equipment and instrumentation to and from sterile processing to other areas within the facility.
• Monitoring supply par levels, the package/supply integrity, and all expiration dates and facilitates replacement as necessary.