Organ Recovery Coordinator

About the role

How You Will Make An Impact At LifeNet Health, as the Organ Recovery Coordinator, you will make an impact by leveraging your expertise, collaboration, and commitment to excellence to help advance our mission of Saving Lives, Restoring Health, and Giving Hope. Through your daily work, you will contribute to innovative solutions, operational excellence, and meaningful outcomes that support donors, patients, healthcare providers, and our communities. Whether driving strategic initiatives, improving processes, supporting customers, advancing research, developing talent, or ensuring quality and compliance, your contributions will help strengthen our ability to transform lives and shape the future of regenerative medicine.

Responsibilities

• Responsible for all aspects of surgical organ recovery, kidney perfusion, and imported organ processes while ensuring compliance with regulatory standards.
• Perform full scrubbing and circulating duties, including setting up sterile fields, assisting with gowning and draping, anticipating surgical needs, managing instruments and specimens, maintaining strict sterile technique, and supporting postmortem care and quality improvement.
• Coordinate all logistics for organ imports, including air and ground transportation and accompanying surgeons when necessary.
• Operate kidney perfusion machines, maintain accurate preservation records, monitor pump metrics, and deliver organs for transplantation.
• Manage organ allocation in accordance with LNH and OPTN/UNOS policies to maximize utilization.
• Ensure precise, timely documentation of all clinical and logistical donor information.

Requirements

• 3 years scrub/surgical tech experience (including Tissue Processing, Tissue Recovery, Operating Room, or other Sterile Processing)
• Emergency Medical Technician (EMT) or Paramedic experience