ESD Assistant - Waste Processing (24 hours per week 7am to 3:30pm)

Working in Environmental Services makes you an integral part of our hospital. You’ll work with diverse employees and see all aspects of our hospital functions while ensuring that your colleagues have a clean and safe environment to treat our patients properly. With lots of opportunities to grow and excellent benefits, you’ll be able to shape your career and build a future here at the #1 pediatric hospital in the country for the last 9 years.

The ESD Assistant – Waste Processer will be responsible for:

1. Performing all daily sterilization and disposal duties related to preparation, operation, maintenance, and cleaning of San I Pak (regulated waste processing) machine. Ensuring biohazardous material is not radioactive.
2. Setting up equipment at the beginning of each shift.
3. Loading San I Pak with regulated waste for proper sterilization. Also loading regular (solid) waste for compaction before final disposal
4. Checking control panel, gauges and chart recorder for proper functioning.
5. Monitoring digital display during operation to ensure machine is properly functioning and notifies supervisor of any changes in system operation.
6. Conducting spore tests on a regular basis, logging results. Alerting supervisor to reportable results.
7. Entering data (processing times, weights, volume) into daily log. Monitoring trends and informs supervisor of extreme discrepancies.
8. Coordinating all activities related to the San I Pak machine during shift.

To qualify, you must have:

1. Analytical skills to gather and interpret data in situations in which the information or problems are relatively routine.
2. The ability to understand and respond to simple written or verbal instructions.
3. Setting up equipment at the beginning of each shift.
4. Ability to communicate with patients and/or visitors, which involves courtesy.
5. Six months of work experience.

Schedule will be 7am to 3:30pm Weekends and one Weekday

Boston Children’s Hospital offers competitive compensation and unmatched benefits including flexible schedules, affordable health, vision and dental insurance, child care and student loan subsidies, generous levels of time off, 403(b) Retirement Savings plan, Pension, Tuition and certain License and Certification Reimbursement, cell phone plan discounts and discounted rates on T-passes. Experience the benefits of passion and teamwork.
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