Travel Sterile Processing Technician
Milwaukee, WI
TalentBurst, Inc
5x8 hrs, Days

Sterile Processing Technician (SPD) — Milwaukee, WI
Shift Information M-F 7a-330p​

About the facility

• Location: Milwaukee, WI

• Beds: 933

• Level III Trauma Center and Level III NICU

• Magnet-designated

• Comprehensive Stroke Center

Unit overview

• Department: Sterile Processing (supports Day Surgery, OR, CVOR)

• OR volume: Supports 20 operating rooms

• Pace: Very busy, fast-paced surgical environment

• Schedule cycle: Monday–Friday

• Shift length: 8 hours (Days 07:00–15:30, Mids 15:00–23:30, Nights 23:00–07:30)

• Breaks: One 30-minute lunch and one 15-minute break per shift

• Weekend rotation: None; no on-call; no holiday expectations

• Parking: Free

• Scrubs supplied; locker and lock provided

Required experience & acceptance

• Minimum: 3 years acute care experience

• First-time travelers: Accepted

Patient types / common procedures

• Heavy orthopedics (total joints, sports medicine, trauma)

• Neurosurgery (AVMs, shunts, EVDs, craniectomies)

• ENT (stealth sinus, T&A), spine, plastics, vascular

• Minimally invasive: laparoscopic, Da Vinci robotic

• GI, GU, OBGYN procedures

Required credentials

• No specific license or national certification required

Core responsibilities & skills

• Decontamination, assembly, processing of instruments and trays

• Process loaner pans/trays

• No case picking responsibilities

• Daily rotation through specialties (will spend one day in each)

• Endoscopes: No flexible endoscope processing except bronchoscopy scopes and ureteroscopes

Team & support

• Always work with other sterile processing techs (never solo)

• Lead Tech and Liaison assigned each shift

• Educator coverage for days and evenings; Manager/Supervisor on day shift

Technology & equipment

• EMR: Epic

• Tracking system: SPM

• Station equipment: Steris brand SPT equipment, microscopes, blacklights, magnifiers at inspection stations

Orientation

• Facility orientation: NEO

• Unit orientation: Up to 1 week

Additional notes

• Floating: No

• Approval for RTO: Manager approval required

• Unit culture: Supportive team structure with leadership and educator resources