**Pearl Pet Hospital** **is seeking a dedicated Sterile Supply Assistant to join our Surgery team in Christiana, DE!** + Do you have a passion for animals? + Are you looking to improve your skills and learn more about the veterinary health industry? + Would you enjoy working in a fast-paced, team environment? **Pay:** $19.00 - $28. / hour **This pay band is a starting point and is dependent on experience and advancement through our leveling system** . **Candidates with VTS credentialing are eligible for compensation commensurate with experience**** We also offer competitive shift differential pay for eligible hours worked for nights and weekends. Shift differentials are based on a 4-hour minimum. For example: + Mon – Fri: 6pm to 8am = $3.50 Shift Differential + Sat & Sun: 6pm to 8am = $5.00 Shift Differential + Sat & Sun: 8am to 6pm = $3.50 Shift Differential We are seeking a Sterile Supply Assistant with a self-motivated, positive attitude to add to our surgical team. This person should be organized and focused on maintaining high-quality instruments and patient care through sterile preparation. **As a Sterile Supply Assistant, you will:** + Prepare instruments and operating room for surgery. + Troubleshooting and removing faulty equipment from service to submit for repair or replacement. + Maintaining appropriate quantities of surgical supplies and equipment. + Decontaminating and cleaning operating rooms, sterile supply room, and equipment according to established procedures. + Cleaning and sterilizing instruments and wrapping packs + Serving as a resource/reference to surgical team with regards to surgical equipment. **Why** **BluePearl** **?** + Our passion is pets. We offer Trupanion pet insurance and discounts to our associates for pet treatments, procedures, and food. + We encourage you to grow with us. Our associates are leveled by their skillset and move up in level as they gain more skills and experience. We are focused on developing our associates into leaders through talent development programs and leadership workshops. As a member of Mars Veterinary Health, our associates have endless opportunities to advance in their career. + To transform and lead the industry through innovative quality medicine and care, we understand the importance of continuous learning. We offer annual continuing education allowance, free continuing education sessions, our own BluePearl University for training, and our clinicians have access to over 2,000 medical journals. We value your health and well-being as an associate by providing you with the following: + Medical, dental, vision, and life insurance options. + Parental leave benefits + Flexible work schedules + 401k and retirement planning + Time to reset, rewind, and reflect through our paid time off and floating holiday plans + A regional licensed social worker who can provide guidance, advice, and tips/tricks on how to maintain a healthy lifestyle while working in a fast-paced emergency and specialty care environment + We promote a family-like culture in our hospitals. We are all in this together. We believe in working together to lead the industry by enriching lives through remarkable care for pets.     _BluePearl is committed to a diverse work environment in which all individuals are treated with respect and dignity. We are an equal opportunity_ _employer_ _and each applicant will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, national origin, religion, creed, sex, age, disability, genetic information, marital status, citizenship status, sexual or affectional preference, or gender identity or expression, protected veteran status, or any other characteristic protected by law. If you need assistance or accommodation during the application process because of a disability, it is available upon request. The company is pleased to provide such assistance, and no applicant will be penalized_ _as a result of_ _such a request. We are an Equal Opportunity Employer and a_ _Drug-Free_ _Workplace._ _ _