Medical Supply Technician (Sterile Processing)

This position is located within Nursing service at Lt. Col. Weathers VA Medical Center in Memphis, TN. This position is assigned responsibility for providing comprehensive, high quality, cost-effective healthcare services to surgical veterans who are rendered care within the facility. In this position, the incumbent will provide support to the Operating Room (OR) Staff personnel by ensuring essential assistance to the surgical team by ensuring a clean, organized, and well-equipped environment.

Duties

The OR Central Operating Room Environment (CORE) Medical Supply Technician (MST) is responsible for ensuring the availability, sterility, accuracy, and readiness of surgical instruments, supplies, and equipment within the Operating Room. This position performs detailed inspection of instrument sets, verifies sterilization parameters, and completes required operational checks for OR-based sterilizers. Functioning as the primary support within the OR CORE, the MST provides immediate assistance to nursing and surgical teams, manages real-time instrumentation and supply needs, and
coordinates closely with Sterile Processing Services, Surgical Services, Logistics, and vendors.

Duties include but are not limited to the following:

Requirements