This position is located within Nursing service at Lt. Col. Weathers VA Medical Center in Memphis, TN. This position is assigned responsibility for providing comprehensive, high quality, cost-effective healthcare services to surgical veterans who are rendered care within the facility.
In this position, the incumbent will provide support to the Operating Room (OR) Staff personnel by ensuring essential assistance to the surgical team by ensuring a clean, organized, and well-equipped environment.
The OR Central Operating Room Environment (CORE) Medical Supply Technician (MST) is responsible for ensuring the availability, sterility, accuracy, and readiness of surgical instruments, supplies, and equipment within the Operating Room. This position performs detailed inspection of instrument sets, verifies sterilization parameters, and completes required operational checks for OR-based sterilizers.
Functioning as the primary support within the OR CORE, the MST provides immediate assistance to nursing and surgical teams, manages real-time instrumentation and supply needs, and coordinates closely with Sterile Processing Services, Surgical Services, Logistics, and vendors. Duties include but are not limited to the following: Ability to follow aseptic practices, safety guidelines, and equipment handling protocols.
Ability to safely transport specimens, blood products, equipment, and supplies. Competence in reading, understanding, and updating logs, inventories, and documentation. Communicates backorders, substitutions, supply delays, and instrumentation shortages to the surgical team in a timely and professional manner. Supports the retrieval, delivery, and maintenance of OR equipment to ensure functionality and readiness.
Assists with Environment of Care (EOC) rounds to identify safety, equipment, or facility issues. Maintains appropriate stock levels in the OR core (blankets, irrigation fluids, etc.) and ensures all logs are current and in compliance. Obtains and responds to scheduled, urgent, and emergency requests, ensuring case carts are accurately pulled and ready for patient care. Picks up and transports blood products to and from the blood bank as required.
Retrieves required surgical items from support services such as prosthetics and pharmacy, as delegated. Work Schedule: Monday - Friday; 6:45 am - 3:15 pm Telework: Not Available. Virtual: This is not a virtual position. Functional Statement #: 51410-F, 51411-F, 51412-F, 51413-F Relocation/Recruitment Incentives: Not Authorized. Permanent Change of Station (PCS): Not Authorized.
IMPORTANT: A transcript must be submitted with your application if you are basing all or part of your qualifications on education. Note: Only education or degrees recognized by the U.S. Department of Education from accredited colleges, universities, schools, or institutions may be used to qualify for Federal employment. You can verify your education here: http://ope.ed.gov/accreditation/.
If you are using foreign education to meet qualification requirements, you must send a Certificate of Foreign Equivalency with your transcript in order to receive credit for that education. For further information, visit: https://sites.ed.gov/international/recognition-of-foreign-qualifications/.
amber.weddington@va.gov · 304-429-6741 X2309
This position is with Veterans Health Administration, Department of Veterans Affairs.
The posted pay range is $39077 – $71119/yr.
This position requires a Other security clearance.
Applications close on 2026-10-28.
This position is open under the 'Public' hiring path.
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