SPD Technician

Job Summary and Responsibilities As our Central Services Technician, you will be a vital link in patient care, ensuring the highest quality, sterile instrumentation is always available to medical teams. Every day, you will meticulously process and sterilize surgical instruments and equipment, assembling trays, conducting quality checks, and maintaining inventory. You'll provide excellent service to patients, physicians, and staff, ensuring tools are safe and ready for procedures. To be successful in this role, you will possess exceptional attention to detail, strong organizational skills, and a rigorous commitment to sterilization protocols, working efficiently and expertly to support optimal outcomes. + Prepares and delivers case carts. Utilizes aseptic technique when handling and distributing sterile instruments and supplies. + Decontaminates surgical instruments, power equipment, flexible endoscopes and other medical devices. + Ability to assemble, package and label, clinics surgical services and all other hospital instrumentation for various methods of sterilization. + Answers telephone, fills orders, issues and stocks supplies + Utilizes various methods of high/low temp sterilization and disinfection processes. + Maintains quality control records for all sterilizers. Job Requirements Required + High School GED General Studies + One year of SPD experience required Preferred + Prefer completion of a surgical instrument technician program or 2 years surgical instrument experience, upon hire and Where You'll Work Hello Humankindness ( Located conveniently off the Loop 101 and Glendale Avenue in Glendale, Arizona (, St. Josephu2019s Westgate Medical Center (, a campus of St. Josephu2019s Hospital and Medical Center, is the centerpiece of Dignity Healthu2019s West Valley expansion. With a vision of _u201c_ _Partnering with patients, physicians, employees and communities to improve the health of all we serveu201d;_ St. Josephu2019s Westgate Medical Center is collaborating with groups to build an organization that meets todayu2019s changing healthcare needs. As part of the new 35-acre medical campus, St. Josephu2019s Westgate Medical Center features new approaches to healthcare via its onside collaboration with Dignity Health partners. The Westgate team has a solid patient/physician focused style to customer service; actively partnering with patients and physicians to plan for the continuum of care. It is with Dignity Healthu2019s humankindness movement that gives St. Josephu2019s Westgate Medical Center the opportunity to open a hospital that is based upon partnerships with patients, physicians, employees, and the community. With future plans to expand, St. Josephu2019s Westgate Medical Center, a 60,000 square foot hospital, includes a 12-bed full-service emergency department, a 24-bed inpatient unit, 2 operating rooms, 2 procedural rooms, dedicated space for diagnostic services, an ambulance bay and helipad. The campus features some of the most innovative uses of materials to promote patient safety, patient satisfaction and medical efficiency. We are extremely proud to be a nationally recognized center for quality quaternary care, medical education and research. St. Joseph's includes the internationally renowned Barrow Neurological Institute (, Norton Thoracic Institute (, Cancer Center at St. Joseph's (, Ivy Brain Tumor Center (, and St. Joseph's Level I Trauma Center ( (which is verified by the American College of Surgeons). The hospital is also a respected center for high-risk obstetrics, neuro-rehabilitation, orthopedics, and other medical services. St. Josephu2019s is considered a sought-after destination hospital for treating the most complex cases from throughout the world. Every day, approximately 20 percent of the hospitalu2019s patients have traveled from outside of Arizona and the United States to seek treatment at St. Josephu2019s. Pay Range $18.60 - $23.71 /hourWe are an equal opportunity/affirmative action employer.

Created: 2026-02-16