Manager, Sterile Processing Services, Sterile Processing Department, Full Time, Day

About the Role

Responsible for the operational leadership and management of Sterile Processing Services across Valley Health System, including Sterile Processing Departments (SPD), Main Sterile Areas (MSA), reusable medical device (RMD) reprocessing, and system-wide sterile processing initiatives supporting the Main Campus, Ridgewood Campus, Luckow Pavilion, and future procedural locations.

Reporting to the Director of Perioperative Services, the System Manager provides leadership for the daily operations of Sterile Processing Services across the health system, ensuring the timely availability of safe, sterile instrumentation and reusable medical devices that support surgical and procedural services. The Manager is responsible for standardizing operations, optimizing resources, maintaining regulatory compliance, improving quality outcomes, leading performance improvement initiatives, and ensuring fiscal stewardship across the sterile processing platform.

The Manager provides administrative oversight of sterile processing equipment, reusable medical device inventories, sterilization technologies, equipment maintenance programs, vendor service agreements, instrumentation assets, operating budget, and supports long-range equipment replacement planning across all Valley Health System campuses. Ensures operational reliability of sterile processing equipment and systems, ensuring the reliability, maintenance, regulatory compliance, and readiness of equipment, technology, instrumentation, and operational systems supporting patient care.

Responsibilities

• Provide operational leadership and management of Sterile Processing Services across Valley Health System.
• Ensure timely availability of safe, sterile instrumentation and reusable medical devices for surgical and procedural services.
• Standardize operations, optimize resources, and maintain regulatory compliance.
• Lead performance improvement initiatives and ensure fiscal stewardship.
• Oversee sterile processing equipment, reusable medical device inventories, sterilization technologies, and equipment maintenance programs.
• Manage vendor service agreements, instrumentation assets, and operating budget.
• Support long-range equipment replacement planning across all campuses.
• Ensure operational reliability, maintenance, and regulatory compliance of equipment and systems.

Qualifications

• Bachelor's degree in Healthcare Administration, Nursing, Business Administration, or related healthcare field required.
• Master's degree preferred.
• CRCST certification required.
• CHL required within two years of hire if not currently certified.
• CIS, CER, and Lean Six Sigma certifications preferred.

Experience

• Minimum five years progressive sterile processing leadership experience required.
• Minimum three years management experience in an acute care or integrated healthcare system preferred.
• Multi-campus leadership, regulatory compliance, budget management, quality improvement, and performance improvement experience required.

Skills

• Demonstrated leadership in operations, finance, regulatory compliance, contract management, change management, and multidisciplinary collaboration.

Location

The Valley Hospital - Paramus

Benefits

• Medical/Prescription, Dental & Vision Discount Program (Full Time/Part Time Employees)
• Group Term Life Insurance and AD&D (Full Time Employees)
• Flexible Spending Accounts and Commuter Benefit Plans
• Supplemental Voluntary Benefits (e.g., Short-term and Long-term Disability, Whole Life Insurance, Legal Support, etc.)
• 6 Paid Holidays, Paid Time Off (varies), Wellness Time Off, Extended Illness
• Retirement Plan
• Tuition Assistance
• Employee Assistance Program (EAP)
• Valley Health LifeStyles Fitness Center Membership Discount
• Day Care Discounts for Various Daycare Facilities

Pay

Pay Range: $94,140.80 - $117,686.40

Actual individual salaries vary depending on role, experience, education, and licensure.

Schedule

Day shift