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American Red Cross • Merrillville, IN

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About The Position

By joining the American Red Cross you will touch millions of lives every year and experience the greatness of the human spirit at its best. Are you ready to be part of the world's largest humanitarian network? Join us—Where your Career is a Force for Good!

Requirements

• High School or equivalent required.
• 1 year of related experience preferred.
• Ability to work on a team.
• The ability to read, write and verbally communicate at the high school to college level is required.
• Intermediate to advanced level computer skills with Microsoft Office applications in a Windows environment is required.
• Ability to operate and remain competent to drive forklift.
• Previous truck and/or bus driving experience is desirable.

Nice To Haves

• Previous truck and/or bus driving experience is desirable.

Responsibilities

• Acquire, distribute, coordinate and maintain supplies and equipment used in blood collection or warehousing operations and report any shortages. Rotate inventory and ensure that supplies are stored, maintained, repaired and distributed in compliance with quality control standards.
• Ensure master servers and scales are charged for uploads, manually upload when failures occur. Ensure masters are rotated and replaced when expired. Coordinate all kitting and drive related paperwork and ensure drives have all necessary paperwork for donors, sponsors and drive leads.
• Maintain and perform quality control on equipment and supplies. Coordinate equipment tracking form and any equipment, ensuring equipment is properly forwarded for repair or replacement.
• Inventory and order supplies from warehouse, maintaining Collections’ supply and equipment area. Fill order requisitions from mobiles and fixed sites.
• Prepare and dispose of kits in accordance with established directives. May clean and repack containers with supplies, solutions, and equipment for bloodmobiles. Report any missing supplies to supervisor and/or warehouse.
• Drive blood collection vehicles to load and unload required supplies and equipment where applicable and as needed. Assign fleet vehicles; may manage keys and assign vehicles to drivers. Drive vehicles to/from vendor for repairs or maintenance. May be asked to assist with drive set up to load/unload drive equipment.
• Prepare for deliveries by verifying orders, loading vehicles and maintaining route supply inventory to ensure prompt delivery of products to customers/blood drives start on time. Drive and restock remote staging locations, including fixed site locations. May maintain keys to facility blood drive locations and assign to staff. May operate forklift or trucks to move supplies.

What This Job Offers

• Job Type: Full-time
• Career Level: Entry Level
• Education Level: High school or GED