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The Manager Anesthesia Services position responsibilities include managing the daily work ... TT - Certified Anesthesia Technologist (ASATT) SKILLS AND ABILITIES * Demonstrates the skills and ...

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How much do manager anesthesia tech jobs pay per hour?

As of Jul 26, 2026, the average hourly pay for manager anesthesia tech in Texas is $51.03, according to ZipRecruiter salary data. Most workers in this role earn between $19.28 and $38.32 per hour, depending on experience, location, and employer.

What are the key skills and qualifications needed to thrive in the Manager Anesthesia Tech position, and why are they important?

To thrive as a Manager Anesthesia Tech, you need expertise in anesthesia equipment, strong leadership abilities, and previous experience as an anesthesia technician, often supported by a relevant certification such as the Certified Anesthesia Technologist (Cer.A.T.T.). Familiarity with anesthesia delivery systems, surgical scheduling software, and regulatory compliance standards is typically required. Outstanding organizational skills, effective communication, and the ability to mentor and motivate staff are key soft skills in this role. These qualifications are vital to ensure patient safety, seamless operating room function, and a cohesive technical team environment.

What are the main responsibilities of a Manager Anesthesia Tech on a daily basis?

A Manager Anesthesia Tech oversees the anesthesia technician team, ensuring all equipment is properly maintained, sterilized, and ready for each procedure. Daily duties include coordinating staff schedules, training new team members, handling supply inventory, and working closely with anesthesiologists, nurses, and operating room staff to meet surgical needs. Additionally, they play an important role in developing or enforcing safety protocols and ensuring compliance with relevant healthcare regulations. This position involves both hands-on technical tasks and administrative oversight, offering a dynamic and collaborative work environment.

What does a Manager Anesthesia Tech do?

A Manager Anesthesia Tech oversees a team of anesthesia technicians, ensuring they provide efficient support to anesthesiologists and surgical teams. They are responsible for managing equipment, maintaining supplies, and ensuring compliance with safety regulations. Additionally, they coordinate staff scheduling, training, and performance evaluations. Their role is crucial in maintaining a smooth and safe anesthesia process in surgical and procedural settings.

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Anesthesia Manager

Full-time

Posted 19 days ago


Houston Methodist rating

8.2

Company rating: 8.2 out of 10

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Job description

At Houston Methodist, the Manager Anesthesia Services position is responsible for ensuring the Anesthesia Services department provides qualified staff and state of the art equipment and supplies in delivering quality service to physicians and patients, ensuring optimal patient safety, outcomes and customer satisfaction and compliance with policies and procedures for anesthesia regulatory requirements. The Manager Anesthesia Services position responsibilities include managing the daily work activities of the work unit/department staff, ensuring quality, productivity, functional excellence and efficiency while assisting management in accomplishing strategic and operational objectives. In addition, this position provides guidance to staff and is responsible for staffing, budget compliance, contributing to staffing decisions such as hiring and terminating employment, coaching and counseling employees on work related performance, and assisting in the development and implementation of policies and procedures to ensure a safe and effective work environment. The Manager Anesthesia Services position also implements training, monitoring and operations initiatives that assure compliance with ethical and legal business practices and accreditation/regulatory/ government regulations.
The manager position responsibilities include managing the daily work activities of the work unit/department staff, ensuring quality, productivity, functional excellence and efficiency while assisting management in accomplishing strategic and operational objectives. In addition, this position provides guidance to staff and is responsible for staffing, budget compliance, contributing to staffing decisions such as hiring and terminating employment, coaching and counseling employees on work related performance, and assisting in the development and implementation of policies and procedures to ensure a safe and effective work environment. This position also implements training, monitoring and operations initiatives that secure compliance with ethical and legal business practices and accreditation/regulatory/ government regulations.
FLSA STATUS
Exempt
QUALIFICATIONS
EDUCATION
  • Bachelor’s degree

EXPERIENCE
  • Five (5) years hospital or clinical experience of which one year must have been in a progressive leadership role in healthcare

LICENSES AND CERTIFICATIONS
Required
  • BLS - Basic Life Support or Instructor (AHA) - American Heart Association
Preferred
  • Cer.A.TT - Certified Anesthesia Technologist (ASATT)

SKILLS AND ABILITIES
  • Demonstrates the skills and competencies necessary to safely perform the assigned job, determined through on-going skills, competency assessments, and performance evaluations
  • Sufficient proficiency in speaking, reading, and writing the English language necessary to perform the essential functions of this job, especially with regard to activities impacting patient or employee safety or security
  • Ability to effectively communicate through a variety of channels with patients, physicians, family members and co-workers in a manner consistent with a customer service focus and application of positive language principles; engages the recipient(s) and helps them understand and retain the message
  • Demonstrates the ability to interact with others in a way that gives them confidence in one’s intentions and those of the organization
  • Ability to use appropriate interpersonal styles and techniques to gain acceptance of ideas or plans; modifying one’s own behavior to accommodate tasks, situations and individuals involved
  • Demonstrates leadership qualities and critical thinking through self-direction initiative and effective interpersonal skills and oral/written communication skills
  • Ability to identify and understand issues, problems and opportunities, comparing data from different sources to draw conclusions; using effective approaches for choosing a course of action or developing appropriate solutions; taking action that is consistent with available facts, constraints and probable consequences
  • Ability to work effectively in a fast paced environment
  • Demonstrates flexibility and adaptability in the workplace
  • Current and proficient with regulatory requirements for the provision of clinical services
  • Possesses competent computer knowledge; operates multiple computer systems to include, Hospital/Anesthesia Information Systems and Office software to maintain patient and exam documents
  • Ability to work independently; capable of handling challenging/difficult anesthesia procedures and patient care situations
  • Skill in coaching, counseling and developing the functional and supervisory skills of others

ESSENTIAL FUNCTIONS
PEOPLE ESSENTIAL FUNCTIONS
  • Performs management responsibilities of selection, scheduling, supervision, retention, and evaluation of employees in the department. Provides development and mentoring of staff. Meets or exceeds threshold goal for department turnover. Develops direct reports to perform these same functions.
  • Provides fair and consistent leadership and communication to maintain a competent and engaged employee group by conducting regular department meetings to review policies and procedures and operational matters, rounding on all employees, completing performance appraisals, conducting new hire feedback sessions, coaching/corrective counseling, and providing recognition/commendations to achieve desired outcomes. Provides timely guidance and feedback to help others strengthen specific knowledge/skill areas needed to accomplish a task or solve a problem.
  • Facilitates and promotes effective team dynamics and teambuilding strategies within and between departments; participates and/or leads and facilitates department process improvements as needed.
  • Meets or exceeds threshold goal for department and/or system metrics on employee engagement indicators.
  • Functions as role model to staff, reinforcing principles of service orientation and ensuring that the focus is always on improving patient care. Makes and executes decisions within delegated authority. Communicates issues as appropriate. Participates in resolving issues outside of normal scope as appropriate.

SERVICE ESSENTIAL FUNCTIONS
  • Plans and organizes day-to-day department operations, schedule and activities. Sets priorities and functional standards, giving direction to staff as necessary to ensure the best possible delivery of service and high customer/patient satisfaction.
  • Drives department service standards and activities to impact department and/or system score for patient/customer-based satisfaction, through role modeling and fostering accountability. Serves and actively participates on various entity committees as a voice for the department.
  • Organizes, oversees and leads work efforts as appropriate to insure the best possible delivery of service and high physician/patient satisfaction. Troubleshoots and manages problems and/or issues regarding patient/family care, visitors, and facility department issues on all shifts and weekends, as needed.
  • Collaborates with anesthesia providers and procedural area leaders to ensure that department objectives related to the delivery of anesthesia care are met on a continuous basis.

QUALITY/SAFETY ESSENTIAL FUNCTIONS
  • Ensures a safe and effective working environment; monitors and/or revises the department safety plan and/or any specific accreditation/regulatory required safety guidelines, including infection control principles. Monitors and confirms staff maintain their required credentials that demonstrate competency per accrediting agency or department guidelines as applicable.
  • Uses and optimizes information systems to enhance operations; supports entity-specific performance improvement and data management/analysis functions.
  • Employs a proactive approach in the optimization of safe outcomes by monitoring and improving the department workflow, using peer-to-peer accountability, reporting accidents, near misses, and/or adverse events immediately per department protocol and identifying solutions via collaboration. Adopts lean principles in driving process improvements. Role models situational awareness, using teachable moments to improve safety.
  • Monitors self and employee compliance with policies, procedures, and System HR Standards of Practice and performs associated actions upon non-compliance (i.e., focal point review requirements, disaster plan, inservices, influenza immunization, wage and hour, standard hours, timely termination submission, timely timecard approval, etc.).
  • Demonstrates attention and acts upon stop-the-line to address critical errors or process mishaps impacting patient safety, reporting near misses immediately and identifying solutions by collaborating with the interprofessional team.
  • Ensures a safe and effective working environment; monitors and/or revises the Anesthesia department safety plan and/or any specific accreditation/regulatory required safety guidelines.
  • Translates regulatory anesthesia requirements for the provision of clinical services into operations to ensure compliance. Uses automated systems to access, transmit and produce information, i.e., databases, EPIC, as appropriate.

FINANCE ESSENTIAL FUNCTIONS
  • Assists in the development of department budget and ensures that the department operates in a cost effective manner. Manages/audits department expenses within approved budget parameters, ensuring that the department meets the budgeted/flex revenue and/or expense targets on a monthly and annual basis. Develops staffing plans and schedules to meet department/patient needs that reflect understanding of the importance of cost-effectiveness.
  • Implements department strategies to achieve financial target and staffing needs, developing others to do the same, through optimizing productivity, supply/resource efficiency, minimizing incidental overtime and overtime percentage, and other areas according to department specifications.
  • Proactively plans for identifying capital needs related to current equipment and future anesthesia projects.

GROWTH/INNOVATION ESSENTIAL FUNCTIONS
  • Identifies and implements innovative solutions for practice or workflow changes to improve department operations or other department-specific measures by leading unit projects and/or other department/system directed/shared governance activities. Supports change initiatives, maintaining effectiveness when experiencing major changes in work responsibilities or environment; adjusts effectively to work within new work structures, processes, requirements or cultures.
  • Proactively evaluates processes; recommends and implements action plan(s) for change; follows through to ensure effective, sustainable change. Participates in the development and implementation of new procedures and the review and revision of existing procedures.
  • Identifies opportunities and takes action to build strategic relationships between one’s area and other areas, teams, departments, and units to achieve business goals.
  • Seeks opportunities to identify developmental needs of self and staff and takes appropriate action. Ensures own career discussions occur with appropriate management. Completes and updates My Development Plan (MDP) on an on-going basis. Conducts conversations with staff on their development.
  • Contributes to the development of annual goals and objectives for the department. Assists staff in achieving these goals via training and appropriate resources.

SUPPLEMENTAL REQUIREMENTS
    WORK ATTIRE
    • Uniform: No
    • Scrubs: Yes
    • Business professional: Yes
    • Other (department approved): No

    ON-CALL*
    *Note that employees may be required to be on-call during emergencies (ie. Disaster, Severe Weather Events, etc) regardless of selection below.
    • On Call* Yes

    TRAVEL**
    **Travel specifications may vary by department**
    • May require travel within the Houston Metropolitan area Yes
    • May require travel outside Houston Metropolitan area No
QUALIFICATIONS
EDUCATION
  • Bachelor’s degree

EXPERIENCE
  • Five (5) years hospital or clinical experience of which one year must have been in a progressive leadership role in healthcare

LICENSES AND CERTIFICATIONS
Required
  • BLS - Basic Life Support or Instructor (AHA) - American Heart Association
Preferred
  • Cer.A.TT - Certified Anesthesia Technologist (ASATT)

Company Profile:

Houston Methodist Hospital is recognized by U.S. News & World Report as the No. 1 hospital in Texas and one of America’s “Best Hospitals.” As a full-service, acute-care hospital located in the Texas Medical Center and the flagship hospital of Houston Methodist, it has evolved into one of the nation’s largest nonprofit teaching hospitals and a leader in innovative medical research with a comprehensive residency program. Two of Houston Methodist’s primary academic affiliates are among the nation’s leading health care organizations: Weill Cornell Medicine and New York-Presbyterian Hospital. Houston Methodist also has affiliations with Texas A&M University and the University of Houston. Houston Methodist Hospital offers unparalleled care for thousands of patients from around the world.

Houston Methodist is an Equal Opportunity Employer.


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