Central Services Tech

As our Central Service Technician, you will play a critical role in maintaining the safety and functionality of our clinical environment. Working at the heart of our facility’s operations, you will be responsible for ensuring that all medical equipment and supplies are sterile, properly managed, and readily available to support patient care teams throughout the hospital.

Every day you will perform the decontamination, cleaning, processing, and sterilization of equipment while adhering to strict infection control practices. Your duties will include managing inventory for IV solutions and procedural trays, coordinating the rental and return of specialized equipment, and utilizing systems like HBO, ESI, and PL WIZARD to accurately process patient charges and data entries.

To be successful in this role, you must be a detail-oriented professional with a strong understanding of sterilization standards and infection prevention. You should be comfortable working with computer-based inventory and billing systems and possess the organizational skills necessary to manage equipment logistics across multiple clinical areas, ensuring our facility remains fully stocked and audit-ready at all times.

• Is a role model for the Hospital's Customer Satisfaction effort, i.e. demonstrates AIDET principles when interacting with customers, subordinates and colleagues.
• Insures proper operation of autoclave units prior to use on a daily basis.
• Runs, monitors and approves biological and chemical tests at beginning, middles and end of shift. Follows through with the monitoring process, until the termination of the biological incubation period.
• Monitors and approves Bowie-Dick test and Sterilizer Printcons. Records results in appropriate log.
• Inspects STERRAD, Gas and Steam Autoclaves for visible signs of malfunction and reports to Central Service Manager.
• Records accurately at the end of the shift the number of sterilized loads and items that have been sterilized.

Required

• High School Graduate or GED
• One year experience as a Central Service or Surgical Instrument Technician OR a combination of six months experience and enrollment in a CRCST or Surgical Instrument Tech course

Founded in 1928, Dignity Health - St. Bernardine Medical Center is a 342-bed, acute care, nonprofit hospital located in San Bernardino, California. Serving nearly 100,000 patients annually, the hospital offers a full complement of services including a Level III NICU, heart care, stroke care and orthopedics. Additionally, St.Bernardine Medical Center has been recognized as an LGBTQ+ Healthcare Equality High Performer by the Human Rights Campaign Foundation. It is a Joint Commission-certified Primary Stroke Center and was recently awarded AMA/ASA’s Get the Guidelines - Stroke Gold Plus Quality Achievement, recognizing the hospital’s commitment to providing the best stroke care. It was named one of Healthgrades America’s 100 Best Hospitals for Prostate Surgery in 2026.

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