--- type: 'JobPosting' title: 'Central Sterile Processing Associate/Technician (PartnerUp)' url: 'https://pepper2.socialhost.dev/job/23363013/central-sterile-processing-associate-technician-partnerup/' job_id: '23363013' organization: 'SFX Demo' location: 'Pittsburgh, PA' employment_type: 'Full-Time' date_posted: '2026-03-31T16:00:16.547Z' date_modified: '2026-05-18T09:14:33.033Z' --- # Central Sterile Processing Associate/Technician (PartnerUp) - Location: Pittsburgh, PA (On-site) - Employment type: Full-Time - Category: Patient Care Support - Shift: Variable - Business unit: ST Health Passavant - Pay: $18.79–$28.03 / hr - Organization: SFX Demo - Posted: 2026-03-31T16:00:16.547Z ## Description **PartnerUp Super Day – Early Career Opportunity** This opportunity is part of PartnerUp’s Super Day, a hiring event designed for graduating high school students interested in starting a career in healthcare. The **Sterile Processing Associate/Technician** role offers hands‑on experience in a hospital setting and is a great entry point for students who are interested in behind‑the‑scenes patient care. In this role, individuals play a critical part in ensuring surgical instruments and equipment are properly cleaned, inspected, and prepared—helping support safe, high‑quality care for patients while building foundational skills for a long‑term career in healthcare. a { text-decoration: none; color: #464feb; } tr th, tr td { border: 1px solid #e6e6e6; } tr th { background-color: #f5f5f5; } This posting includes two levels of the same career path: - **Sterile Processing Associate**– Entry-level role with on-the-job training; starts at **$18.59/hour** - **Sterile Processing Technician**– Advanced role with more experience and/or certification; starts at **$18.79/hour** **Responsibilities:** - Demonstrates knowledge of performance improvement tools and techniques. - Continuously improves the quality of care and the work environment of outcomes and the integration of research and best practices into daily work. - Shares learning from improvements with other units and/or spreads across the business unit or system. - Practices solid verbal and written communication skills and is able to articulate and translate to other care providers and to negotiate and make recommendations for changes in unit practices. - Documentation is comprehensive and promotes communication between caregivers. - Demonstrates critical thinking in the analysis of clinical, social, safety, psychological and spiritual issues. - Incorporates national professional organization as well as business unit and health system's goals to improve patient safety, quality and satisfaction of the patient experience in daily work. - Creates a caring and compassionate patient focused experience by building healing relationships with colleagues. - Disseminates new knowledge and innovations through presentations, posters, and publications. - Develops and maintains productive working relationships internally and externally by building teams and relationships through mentoring and modeling uplifting and positive communication. - Coaches' colleagues on cultural diversity and addresses workplace horizontal violence and impairment. - Demonstrates accountability to self and others for safe work hours, time management and healthy lifestyles. - Demonstrates interest in the development of others and positively impacts the lives of patients/families, peers, and members of the healthcare team through mentoring, education, and knowledge sharing. - Seeks opportunities to share expertise with other members of the healthcare team within and beyond the clinical unit/department. - Demonstrates accountability for professional development that improves the quality of professional practice and the quality of patient care. - Makes recommendations for the improvement of clinical care and the health of the workplace and welcomes and participates in change initiatives. - Leads by investing and building healthy relationships among colleagues and other disciplines. - Shows the ability to set priorities. - Conforms and adheres to department policies concerning decontamination, sterile processing, infection control and safety. - Cleans and decontaminates reusable equipment, instruments, and supplies, manually and mechanically. - Prepares and assembles surgical tray and equipment following established tray listings for issue, storage, or further processing. - Monitors, reads, documents, and interprets all parameters for all types of sterilizers to ensure proper function. - Maintains a working knowledge of, and is able to effectively troubleshoot, all decontamination/sterilization equipment. - Assesses supplies required for prescribed standard surgical procedures and sets up case carts. Maintains inventory, collects, disassembles, inspects, cleans, disinfects and reassembles all instrument trays patient care equipment. - Communicates appropriately using good interpersonal skills. - Displays awareness of cost containment in the organization of work by using economy in time, motion and material. - Participates in performance improvement activities. - Develops and improves skills through initiative, attendance and participation at educational programs - Participates as a team member and is accountable for own work responsibilities. - Demonstrates ST Health's commitment to the Core Values by understanding the needs of patients, their families, physicians, and co-workers and doing what is required the first time, every time by being responsible, sensitive, accurate, timely, coordinated and thorough. - Performs other related duties as assigned by authorized personnel or as may be required to meet emergency situations - Performs in accordance with system-wide competencies/behaviors. - Performs other duties as assigned. - High school Graduate or equivalent. - Six months of healthcare experience or currently enrolled in an Accredited Surgical Technician/Sterile Processing Program Preferred. - **Must complete 10 hours of continuing education to remain qualified as a Central Sterile Technician on an annual basis.** **Licensure, Certifications, and Clearances:** - Employees active in a Central Sterile position, on or before the effective date 12/27/2020, at a healthcare facility, are grandfathered regarding certification and will not need to obtain it unless they move into a different position that would require certification. - **Certification Board for Sterile Processing and Distribution or Certified Registered Central Service Technician or International Association of Healthcare Central Service Material Management certification required.** - **New employees will have 18 months from date of hire to obtain required certification.** - Act 34 with renewal **ST Health is an equal opportunity employer** ## Apply - [Apply for this role](https://sfxdemo.site.findly.com/job/apply-form) - [This posting on the web](https://pepper2.socialhost.dev/job/23363013/central-sterile-processing-associate-technician-partnerup/)