Surgical Technician

Company Overview

Shriners Children’s is an organization that respects, supports, and values each other. Named as the 2025 best mid-sized employer by Forbes, we are engaged in providing excellence in patient care, embracing multi-disciplinary education, and research with global impact. We foster a learning environment that values evidenced based practice, experience, innovation, and critical thinking. Our compassion, integrity, accountability, and resilience define us as leaders in pediatric specialty care for our children and their families.

With 20+ hospitals, outpatient clinics, ambulatory care centers and outreach locations across the globe, we provide excellent care to children up to age 18 regardless of their family’s ability to pay or insurance status. Please click here to learn more about our locations.

Job Description

The Surgical Technician will have the opportunity to assist surgeons during operative and invasive procedures, as well as assist in preparation of surgical services to ensure suite setup is appropriate.

Key Responsibilities:

• Competency to create and maintain a sterile field, providing equipment and supplies, performing sponge, sharps and instruments counts. Providing visualization of operative site
• Independently pulls cases utilizing preference sheets and OR special equipment lists. Updates, reviews lists making changes as necessary. Reviews cases, and equipment prior to start of case. Is scrubbed in and has equipment prior to patient arriving into the OR suite​
• Verifying efficacy of equipment, operating, maintaining and verifying and recording efficacy of equipment

• Determines and documents efficacy of equipment. Records reflect accurate description of operations, sterilization, and use of equipment

• Familiar with proper assembly, operation, and disassembly of all OR equipment and attends in-service on new equipment

• Attends in-service on new equipment, completes competency evaluation successful in operation and maintaining equipment used within the department

• In-depth knowledge of principles of sterile technique; General knowledge of anatomy, surgical procedures with emphasis on our specific procedures.

Required Qualifications:

• Basic knowledge of Orthopedic Surgery

• Current Surgical Technologist certification required

• Basic Life Support Certification (BLS) recognized by American Heart Association required

Preferred Qualifications:

• Minimum six (6) months experience in an orthopedic surgical area preferred.