Distribution Clerk, Materials Management

Heywood Hospital•Gardner, MA

9d•Onsite

About The Position

Heywood Healthcare values its employees and offers competitive wages, great benefits, and generous earned time off. This position is for a Distribution Clerk in Materials Management, working 40 hours per week on days from 7:30 am to 3:30 pm, Monday through Friday. The role involves working with departmental and healthcare teams to maintain a clean and safe environment, manage supplies, and ensure accurate and timely delivery of stock, including IV solutions and medications, to various hospital departments. The Distribution Clerk is responsible for maintaining par levels, organizing storerooms, and ensuring inventory rotation to prevent expiration.

Requirements

High School Diploma
One year experience in warehouse operations
Computer literacy

Responsibilities

Works together with departmental and healthcare teams to complete assignments.
Maintains a clean and comfortable environment for patients and visitors.
Removes or arranges for removal of safety hazards from environment immediately to prevent potential safety hazards from occurring.
Prioritizes and reprioritizes work based on the changing needs of the customers.
Keeps equipment in clean and working condition.
Maintains materials and supplies to do job.
Collects patient charge cards from various locations within the hospital.
Reviews patient charge cards and inputs them into the Meditech Computer System.
Delivers stock via cart to the correct department.
Ensures that the carts carrying stock are never left unattended and that stock is placed in the proper location in departments.
Utilizes a few minutes each day during the delivery process to ensure the supply rooms are neat and organized.
Improves and maintains the appearance of the storeroom so that the room is orderly and safe.
Delivers promptly emergency stock as needed.
Delivers IV Solutions including those with Potassium and Kits and Trays with medications such as Lidocaine to the appropriate locations in patient care departments.
Demonstrates knowledge of products to minimize the chance of incorrect deliveries being made, resulting in re-work.
Maintains par levels of stock on the patient care units.
Recommends adjustments to par levels and orders placed, based on the usage of stock.
References packing lists and other receiving documents to confirm the accuracy of shipments, as requested by the department manager or supervisor.
Prepares accurate labels to packages being shipped as requested by the department manager or supervisor.
Ensures items and equipment is packaged properly for safe shipping as requested by the department manager or supervisor.
Delivers equipment and supplies using the hand cart or truck.
Delivers overnight and rush orders immediately.
Restocks shelves and rotates inventory to ensure first in first out and that products do not expire, as well as, reports all expired goods to the supervisor.