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Surgical Technologist | Plaza Surgery Center

CentraCare

Saint Cloud, MNFull-time$30.07–45.1/hrSeen 2w agoSeen in employer's feed 5 days ago

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At a glance

Compensation
$30.07–45.1/hr
Location
Saint Cloud, MN
Schedule
Full-time
Work Authorization
Not specified

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Requirements

Credentials this posting asks for.

AHA BLS Healthcare Provider Card

Job overview

The Surgical Technologist at CentraCare’s Ambulatory Surgery Center at the Plaza supports outpatient procedures and patient care. The role involves maintaining sterile techniques, ensuring accurate surgical counts, and preparing and passing sutures, instruments, and supplies to surgeons and assistants. The position is full-time, with weekday shifts and no weekends or holidays.

Skills & qualifications

RequiredNice to have

Skills

Surgical Technologist DutiesSterile TechniqueSurgical CountsSurgical Instrument Preparation

Qualifications

Accredited Surgical Technologist ProgramAHA BLS Healthcare Provider CardSurgical Technologist Certification

Benefits

Tuition Assistance
Relocation Assistance
Medical Insurance
Dental Insurance
Paid Time Off
401(k) Match

Full job description

Job Shift: Day

Assignment Category: Full-time regular

Hours per Pay Period: 72

Work From Home 100%: No

Pay Ranges: 30.07-45.10

Job Identification: 232336

Job Category: Technical

Job Schedule: Full time

Join our team at the Ambulatory Surgery Center at the Plaza as a Surgical Technologist, where you'll play a key role in outpatient procedures. We're dedicated to delivering top-notch patient care and embracing cutting-edge technology. Your responsibilities will include visually assessing patients' conditions, maintaining sterile techniques, ensuring accurate counts throughout the surgery, as well as proficiently assembling, preparing and passing sutures, instruments and supplies to surgeons and assistants.

Our Ambulatory Surgery Center offers a comfortable and warm environment for outpatient surgery. Be a part of the team that is committed to exceptional clinical outcomes, superior patient experience and the latest technology.

Schedule

  • Full-time | 72 hours every two weeks | Plaza Surgery Center

  • Monday-Friday | Various 8 to 10-hour shifts working between 6am – 5pm

  • No weekends or holidays!

Pay and Benefits

  • Starting pay begins at $30.07 per hour; exact wage determined by years of related experience

  • Pay range: $30.07 - $45.10 per hour

  • Up to $2,500 hiring bonus or up to $5,000 tuition reimbursement for eligible candidates

  • $5,000 relocation bonus for eligible candidates

  • Full-time benefits (https://jobs.centracare.com/us/en/benefits) : medical, dental, PTO, retirement, employee discounts and more

  • Tuition reimbursement and college grant programs available

Qualifications

  • Successful completion of an accredited Surgical Technologist Program

  • Current American Heart Association (AHA) BLS Healthcare Provided Card

  • Basic knowledge of surgical technologist duties and responsibilities

  • Current certification as a Surgical Technologist preferred

To be eligible for the hiring bonus, student loan repayment and relocation bonus, you must be hired into an eligible full or part-time benefited position. Bonuses will only be awarded in cases where the applicant has not worked for CentraCare for at least the past nine months. Relocation bonus must meet distance requirements.

CentraCare hiring incentives to include but not limited to, hiring and relocation bonuses may be discontinued at any time.

CentraCare has made a commitment to diversity in its workforce. All individuals including, but not limited to, individuals with disabilities, are encouraged to apply. CentraCare is an EEO/AA employer.

How this job compares

Set against the 2,751 open Surgical Technologist jobs on Olive Jobs, counted November 4, 2026.

Pay
  • This posting$30.07–45.1/hr
  • Minnesota median$30–43/hr42 hourly ranges
  • US median$28–41/hr1,127 hourly ranges

This range's midpoint, $37.59/hr, is 4% above the Minnesota median midpoint ($36/hr) — in the middle half of Surgical Technologist hourly ranges in Minnesota.

Openings
Olive Jobs lists 47 open Surgical Technologist jobs in Minnesota and 2,751 across the US. None of them nationwide are listed as remote or flexible.
Hiring the most in Minnesota
Experience
Surgical Technologist postings that state a minimum ask for 1 year of experience at the median; the middle half ask for 1 to 2 years (1,191 postings).
Education
6 of the 2,751 open Surgical Technologist jobs (under 1%) ask for a bachelor's degree or higher.

Counted across the open, public US postings on Olive Jobs on November 4, 2026. Pay medians are the middle values of the low ends and of the high ends of postings that list both ends of a range in the same cadence (a yearly salary or an hourly rate); a range's midpoint is halfway between its ends. Pay and experience figures resting on fewer than 20 postings are left out.

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