Surgical Recovery Specialist Organ and Tissue

Surgical Recovery Specialist – Organ and Tissue

Join NJ Sharing Network as a Surgical Recovery Specialist. Work in organ and tissue recovery, ensuring the operating room is set up with sufficient supplies, maintaining a sterile field, and performing perfusion, packaging, and labeling procedures following regulatory requirements. Responsible for organ recovery for research, post‑mortem care, and training new recovery staff.

• Pack supplies for organ recovery cases.
• Prepare the operating room and back table with required containers, packaging, tubing, and solutions.
• Ensure sterile technique pre‑ and post‑recovery and retrieve equipment.
• Prepare body for organ recovery, including photographs for the medical examiner.
• Perfuse, package, and label organs and handle tissue typing.
• Recover organs for research and assist with post‑mortem care.
• Accompany transplant teams on organ import fly/drive outs and participate in paired kidney exchanges.
• Prepare kidney pumps, cannulate, place kidneys on pump, monitor and ice kidneys, and transport kidneys to transplant centers.
• Assist with transport of organs and transplant teams.
• Perform tissue recovery: assess donor tissue, prepare, move or lift donor, complete surgical recovery, prepare back table, receive and culture tissue, package per processor SOPs.
• Follow regulatory requirements (FDA, AATB, NJ Sharing Network).
• Perform office duties (preparing trays, disposing waste, courier functions) and attend mandatory meetings.
• Conduct kidney biopsy telepathology functions (communication, preparation, dissection, imaging, upload).
• May be cross‑trained in other areas as needed.
• Perform duties as assigned based on training and clinical needs.

• High School degree or equivalent (required).
• 1–2 years experience in tissue surgical recovery or organ perfusion, or as a surgical technician.
• Encouraged to obtain Certified Transplant Perfusionist (CTP) or Certified Tissue Bank Specialist (CTBS) certification.

Salary: $60,615.00 – $97,000.00 (based on market pay structures).

Competitive medical, prescription, dental, vision coverage; FSA; EAP; life and disability insurance; paid time off; 401(k) plan; tuition reimbursement; transit program; and more.

New Jersey Organ and Tissue Sharing Network is an equal opportunity employer. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, creed, color, national origin, nationality, ancestry, age, sex/gender, marital status, civil union status, domestic partnership status, familial status, religion, sexual orientation, gender identity or expression, hereditary cellular or blood trait, genetic information, service in the Armed Forces, disability, or any other class protected by Federal, State or Local laws.