UPMC is hiring a Casual Surgical Technologist to join their Harmar Outpatient Surgery Center! UPMC Harmar Outpatient Surgery Center is a fast-paced, high-volume facility featuring five operating rooms and specializing in orthopedics and ophthalmology, with additional services in plastics and podiatry. Our team is committed to delivering exceptional outpatient surgical care through collaboration, precision, and compassion in a supportive and efficient environment.

In addition to core surgical technologist duties, you will play a key role in maintaining the flow of daily operations by anticipating surgical team needs, ensuring equipment readiness, and actively contributing to post-procedure turnover and restocking. You will also collaborate closely with nursing and anesthesia staff to support patient safety and procedural efficiency.

This position will work weekdays, 6:30am to 3:00pm, no evenings, weekends, or holidays required! Preference will be given to applicants with at least 1 years of surgical technologist experience. 

Applicants will be placed in the appropriate job title and salary from the career ladder, based on their individual experience and education.

Responsibilities:

After surgery, may help transfer patients to the recovery room. Clean and restock the operating room. Serves as a resource to other staff members; precepts students and new employees. Assist in the preparation, care for, and disposal of specimens taken for laboratory analysis and helps apply dressings. Participates in committees and inter-disciplinary teams. Assist the surgical team with putting on sterile gowns and gloves. Before an operation, help to prepare the operating room by setting up surgical instruments and equipment, sterile drapes, and sterile solutions. Assemble both sterile and non-sterile equipment. Adjust and check equipment to ensure it is working properly. Collaborates with Clinician to disseminate new knowledge. Ensure all medications are labeled and handed to surgeon according to established policies and procedures. Ensure clean, safe environment through continued alertness to safety and explosive hazards and aseptic technique. Prepare patients for surgery by wash, shave, and ensure aseptic incision sites. May transport patients to the operating room, help position them on the operating table, and cover them with sterile surgical drapes. During surgery, efficiently pass instruments and other sterile supplies to surgeons and surgeon assistants. Hold retractors or instruments, cut sutures, sponge or suction the operative site and help count sponges, needles, supplies, and instruments.