Preferred Requirements:
X-Ray Certification and/or willingness to become X-Ray Certified.
Overview
We are seeking a skilled and detail-oriented Dental Sterilization and Lab Tech to join our dental practice. The ideal candidate will support clinical operations through expertise in dental fabrication, laboratory procedures, and patient care assistance. This role offers an excellent opportunity to work in a dynamic environment where precision, technical skills, and patient safety are paramount. The Dental Tech will collaborate closely with dental professionals to ensure high-quality patient outcomes and efficient workflow.
Self Motivated, Takes Initiative, Organizational Skills, Get-tasks-done kinda attitude,
Responsibilities
- Sterilization Responsibilities:
· Adheres to office sterilization and infection control standards for cleaning and sterilizing contaminated items or supplies.
· Ensures instruments and surgical trays are clean, sterile, assembled, and ready prior to procedures.
· Ensures the availability of adequate levels of sterile instruments and supplies meet the demands of the surgery schedule.
· Checks sterile items for substitution needs by replacing damaged, expired, or missing instruments
· Maintains inventory by rotating, sorting, wrapping, packaging, and appropriately labeling instruments and supplies.
· Inserts sterilization indicators inside all packages and report any lost instruments to appropriate staff.
- Assisting Responsibilities:
· Assists Doctor, Hygienists and Dental Assistants by ensuring operatories are clean and ready for next procedures.
· Open daily chart notes.
· Set up upcoming procedures.
· Assist with bringing patients back: opening chart, pulling up xrays, taking blood pressure and possibly getting subjective report from patient.
· Take X-rays when needed.
· Take impressions or scan for retainers, night guards, bleach trays, diagnostic casts, surgical stents, custom trays, and temporary suck downs.
· Setting up all consults: getting laptop ready and pull up CT and chart on big tv.
- Supplies: Stocking & Ordering:
· Stocking Doctor and Hygienist’s operatories daily and weekly.
· Checking inventory weekly and pulling tags.
· Ordering all supplies and equipment.
· Putting away all incoming supplies.
· Contacting appropriate companies for help when equipment issues arise.
· Monitors autoclaves for proper temperatures and ensures repair orders are reported to supervisors or representatives responsible for escalated maintenance.
· Tracking and ensure all weekly, monthly and quarterly maintenance logs are filled out.
· Lab Tracking
· Packaging cases that need to be sent out and send out.
· Box up models when a case is completed
· Organization of the lab, ensuring that it is clean.
Job Type: Full-time
Pay: $16.00 - $20.00 per hour
Benefits:
- 401(k)
- 401(k) matching
- Employee discount
- Health insurance
- On-the-job training
- Paid time off
- Vision insurance
Work Location: In person
