Operating Room Tech / Surgical Technician/Operating Rm Tech

Job Summary Surgical Technician/Operating Room Technician - Illinois. The surgical technician supports a high-volume acute care surgical environment serving adolescent, adult, pediatric, and geriatric patients. Responsibilities include preparing equipment and instrumentation, maintaining aseptic technique, supporting surgical teams across multiple specialties, and participating in on-call and weekend coverage. Job Details

• Schedule: Evening shifts, 8 hours per shift, 40 hours per week; weekends are scheduled once per month with a total 16-hour obligation. On-call coverage is required as needed.
• Required Qualifications: Minimum 3 years of experience; prior travel experience; Basic Life Support (BLS) certification; Level I trauma experience; experience in a general operating room, teaching hospital, and trauma setting; competency with aseptic technique, isolation precautions, radiation safety, sharps safety, specimen handling and labeling, and the Universal Protocol time-out procedure; experience with ear, nose, and throat procedures, including direct laryngoscopy, radical neck dissection, tonsillectomy and adenoidectomy, and tracheostomy; endoscopic procedures, including colonoscopy, upper gastrointestinal endoscopy, and percutaneous endoscopic gastrostomy tube placement or exchange; general surgery, gynecology, neurosurgery, oral, orthopedic, plastic surgery, trauma, and urology procedures; fire safety; drills, electrosurgical units, and fiber-optic light sources and cords.
• Preferred Qualifications: Certified Surgical Technologist (CST) certification and teaching hospital experience.
• Float: Float rotation may be required.
• Additional Information: The role supports approximately 50–60 surgical cases per day across 23 operating rooms and includes a broad range of surgical specialties, excluding ophthalmic and cardiothoracic procedures. Surgical services include appendectomy, cholecystectomy, open and laparoscopic colon resection, hernia repair, mastectomy, thyroidectomy, hysterectomy, craniotomy, laminectomy and discectomy, lumbar fusion, fracture reduction, free-flap microsurgery, amputations, motor vehicle accident trauma, cystoscopy, nephrectomy, and ureteroscopy. Specialized equipment includes robotic surgical systems and multiple microscopes. The assignment serves adolescents, adults, pediatrics, and geriatric patients.

Benefits

The benefits of taking a travel assignment with Cross Country include:

• Private housing or generous housing allowance
• Comprehensive health insurance with prescription coverage
• Dependent health insurance with prescription coverage
• Competitive salaries
• Referral bonuses
• Travel reimbursement
• 401(k) retirement plan
• Direct deposit/free checking
• Unlimited free CE credits