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Manager Sterile Processing - Site San Marcos - FT Day Shift

Primary Location San Marcos, California Facility Name San Marcos Hospital Schedule Full-time Shift Day Salary $84900 - $109780 / year
Job Number 1375404 Date Posted 10/09/2025
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Job Summary:

Supervises and coordinates the activities of the sterile processing department. Furnishes medical center and ambulatory staff with the highest quality sterile supplies and equipment. Manages staff, ensuring all regulatory requirements are met.

Essential Responsibilities:


  • Supervises and coordinates all  medical center and ambulatory sterile processing activities which includes decontamination sterilization, and the preparation of all medical equipment, surgical instrumentation, and operating room case carts.

  • Supervises a 24 hour, seven days a week operation, ensuring the sterile processing staff provides quality service and clients receive the appropriate products on a timely basis.

  • Instructs staff in the use of sterilizing equipment, setting standards for treatment trays, and maintaining the equipment.

  • Oversees work activities to ensure staff are following established federal, state, and local requirements and department policies and procedures.

  • Establishes standards of work performance.

  • Develops and maintains the payroll, non-payroll, and capital budgets.

  • Monitors the departments quality assurance, safety, environmental and  infection control programs.

  • Oversees and ensures consistency sterilization procedures, policies, and products across the medical center.

  • Analyzes physician, nursing, other healthcare staff product or service requests.

  • Studies new products, equipment, techniques, and service, making recommendations to enhance products and services.

  • Supervises the daily unit operation.

  • Resolves human resource, employee, management, department, safety programs, and risk management issues.

  • Ensures a high level of user satisfaction.

  • Maintains required regulatory records and reports.
Basic Qualifications:

Experience


  • Minimum three (3) years of experience in sterile processing, supply distribution, and inventory control required.


Education


  • Bachelors degree , OR four (4) years of experience in a directly related field.

  • High School Diploma or General Education Development (GED) required.


License, Certification, Registration


  • N/A


Additional Requirements:


  • Supervisory experience required.

  • Knowledge of sterile processing and regulatory requirements required.

  • Data processing experience required.

  • Must be able to work in a Labor/Management Partnership environment.


Preferred Qualifications:


  • Operating room experiences preferred.

  • Bachelor's degree in business preferred.

Primary Location: California,San Marcos,San Marcos Hospital Scheduled Weekly Hours: 40 Shift: Day Workdays: Mon, Tue, Wed, Thu, Fri Working Hours Start: 07:00 AM Working Hours End: 03:30 PM Job Schedule: Full-time Job Type: Standard Worker Location: Onsite Employee Status: Regular Employee Group/Union Affiliation: NUE-SCAL-01|NUE|Non Union Employee Job Level: Manager with Direct Reports Department: SAN MARCOS MEDICAL CENTER - MaterialMgmt-CentralProcessing - 0801 Pay Range: $84900 - $109780 / year Kaiser Permanente is committed to pay equity and transparency. The posted pay range is based on possible base salaries for the role and does not include the value of our total rewards package. Actual pay determined at offer will be based on years of relevant work experience, education, certifications, skills and geographic location along with a review of current employees in similar roles to ensure that pay equity is achieved and maintained across Kaiser Permanente. Travel: No On-site: Work location is on-site (KP designated office, medical office building or hospital). Worker location must align with Kaiser Permanente's Authorized States policy. Kaiser Permanente is an equal opportunity employer committed to fair, respectful, and inclusive workplaces. Applicants will be considered for employment without regard to race, religion, sex, age, national origin, disability, veteran status, or any other protected characteristic or status.

For jobs where work will be performed in unincorporated LA County, the employer provides the following statement in accordance with the Los Angeles County Fair Chance Ordinance. Criminal history may have a direct, adverse, and negative relationship on the following job duties, potentially resulting in the withdrawal of the conditional offer of employment:

  • Consistently supports compliance and the Principles of Responsibility (Kaiser Permanente's Code of Conduct) by maintaining the privacy and confidentiality of information, protecting the assets of the organization, acting with ethics and integrity, reporting non-compliance, and adhering to applicable federal, state, and local laws and regulations, accreditation, and licensure requirements (where applicable), and Kaiser Permanente's policies and procedures.

  • Models and reinforces ethical behavior in self and others in accordance with the Principles of Responsibility, adheres to organizational policies and guidelines; supports compliance initiatives; maintains confidences; admits mistakes; conducts business with honesty, shows consistency in words and actions; follows through on commitments.

  • Job duties with at least occasional or possible access to: (1) patients, the general public, or other employees; (2) confidential protected health information and other confidential KP information (including employee, proprietary, financial or trade secret information); (3) KP property and assets, for example, electronic assets, medical instruments, or devices; (4) controlled substances regulated by federal law or potentially subject to diversion.
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