Inventory Control Technician

Reid Health

About The Position

The Inventory Control Technician focuses on PAR replenishment, patient room cart stocking, and backup Mailroom support, and participates in the holiday rotation. Occasional overtime is required. The technician may also assist with other inventory management activities, including warehouse operations. The role handles inventory receiving, storage, replenishment, distribution, returns, cycle counts, and recordkeeping. It also includes receiving and delivering shipments, maintaining PAR locations and carts, stocking nurse server carts in occupied patient rooms, and performing Mailroom functions such as processing incoming and outgoing mail and packages. Inventory and work areas must be kept clean, orderly, and professionally maintained, and products must be delivered to requesting departments on the day of request.

Requirements

High school diploma or GED.
Previous work history demonstrating the ability to handle high volumes of work and work as part of a team.
Ability to participate in the holiday rotation.
Ability to work the stated evening schedule and occasional overtime.
Ability to wear the department-approved uniform at the employee’s expense.

Nice To Haves

Two years of work experience in a warehouse or healthcare supply chain environment.

Responsibilities

Accurately put supplies into inventory and issue supplies from inventory; place supplies in their designated bin locations, rotate stock, and ensure adequate quantities and valid expiration dates.
Advise the supervisor of stock outages and concerns about supply levels.
Perform weekly cycle counts to reconcile on-hand quantities with Workday balances, seeking a 98% accuracy rate.
Perform first or second checks on Intubation Trays, Crash Carts, Latex Free Carts, and C-Section Carts.
Break down and transport unneeded boxes to the compactor or baler.
Safely transport and maintain compressed gas cylinders throughout the facility.
Enter appropriate transactions in Workday for shipping feedback, miscellaneous issues, returns, receipts, and other inventory activity.
Perform periodic shelf checks and routine warehouse housekeeping.
Count assigned PAR locations and carts, maintaining accurate quantities and product availability.
Keep PAR locations clean, supplies correctly placed, products sterile, and product out dates monitored.
Process returned items to inventory, ensuring appropriate departmental credits and accurate stock-on-hand quantities.
Label PAR bin locations accurately and legibly.
Reallocate stock between PAR supply locations during outages to ensure areas have needed supplies.
Transport supplies to nursing units and departments, including resupplying nurse server carts in occupied patient rooms.
Sign for incoming shipments and assist with off-loading goods as appropriate.
Refuse visibly damaged or noncompliant products; obtain driver signatures and take photographs as appropriate when damage is visible.
Open, inspect, and count products; verify units of measure against purchase orders, document discrepancies, and notify the Purchasing Agent.
Record non-purchase-order shipments in the Manual Receiving Log and forward original packing slips to Purchasing.
Deliver merchandise to end users with delivery tickets and obtain delivery signatures.
Sort and route incoming USPS mail; prepare outgoing USPS mail by weighing, labeling, and stamping it.
Package, weigh, label, and document items for shipment through UPS, FedEx, and other carriers, and arrange appropriate departmental or individual charges.
Prepare inter-office mail for courier and volunteer delivery; operate the postage meter.
Transport mail to the post office during emergencies or when the courier is absent.
Wear the department-approved uniform at the employee’s expense.
Maintain zero Unreleased Requisitions, Unreleased Shipments, Waiting for Shipment Documents, and Unreleased Receivers each day.
Deliver all products to the requesting department on the day of request and maintain inventory-control areas, PAR locations, and the Mailroom in a clean, neat, orderly, professional manner.
Process all outgoing overnight mail by 4:00 p.m. daily.
Help ensure medical procedures are not canceled or postponed because of inadequate or substandard products.