**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.
**Essential Functions**

+ Operates and monitors sterilization equipment.
+ Disassembles carts and follows Universal Precautions for decontamination.
+ Sterilizes, disinfects durable medical equipment and instruments, packages clean supplies and instruments, maintains records for all instruments and transports sterilized items to the floor.
+ Assembles sterilized instruments and rechecks all instruments for cleanliness and/or impairment. Properly checks power equipment.
+ Takes measures to allow for easy instrument tracking including following labeling processes, use of engraver, reporting an...