Lead Supply Technician

Veterans Health Administration • Charlotte, NC

18d • Onsite

About The Position

This position serves as the Lead Supply Technician (Medical) for the Medical Supply Distribution areas of Logistics Service within the Veteran Affairs Health Care System, Charlotte VA Healthcare Center, and supported catchment area. The role ensures supplies and materials are distributed to wards, clinics, operating rooms, secondary storage locations, and other hospital facilities, including sterile and non-sterile medical supplies, instrument sets, and equipment.

The Lead Supply Technician distributes and balances employee workloads, monitors work progress, makes day-to-day adjustments to priorities, and answers procedural and policy questions. The position maintains inventory for clinical and administrative services, receives and stores supplies, performs barcode-based inventory, resolves count discrepancies, and ensures supplies remain sterile and inventory records remain accurate. It also maintains clean work areas in accordance with aseptic principles, infection control guidelines, local SOPs, and Joint Commission standards, and coordinates supply-management activities with clinical and administrative customers and outside vendors.

The regular schedule is Monday through Friday, 7:30 a.m. to 4:00 p.m. This is not a virtual position. Work takes place throughout the medical center, including wards, clinics, operating rooms, storage buildings, warehouses, and nursing areas. The environment can range from clean to hot, cold, drafty, or poorly lit. The work involves standing and walking throughout the day, frequent bending and lifting, pushing loaded supply carts, and operating barcode scanners, computers, and printers. The position may involve exposure to trips, falls, cuts, bruises, or other injury risks, and maintaining cleanliness while working in areas where dust or other infectious pollutants may be produced.

Requirements

• One year of specialized experience equivalent to at least GS-5 in the normal line of progression, including experience distributing medical supplies and equipment; scanning, bar-coding, receiving, storing, and distributing supplies; maintaining and replenishing stock; monitoring expiration dates and rotating stock; maintaining records; cleaning according to aseptic principles; and receiving supplies.
• Current Federal employees and certain former Federal employees applying for a GS-6 position must meet the time-in-grade requirement of 52 weeks at GS-5 by the announcement closing date.
• U.S. citizenship is required.
• Applicants must complete the application, questionnaire, and required online assessment.
• Applicants must undergo a background/security investigation and complete online onboarding and pre-employment identification requirements.
• Participation in the seasonal influenza vaccination program is required for VA Health Care Personnel.
• The appointee must serve a one-year probationary period or two-year trial period, as applicable.
• Ability to perform work involving standing and walking throughout the workday, frequent bending and lifting, and regularly pushing loaded carts; heavier items may be moved with assistance or weight-handling equipment.
• There is no educational substitution at this grade level.

Responsibilities

• Distribute and balance employee workloads according to established workflow or job specialization, ensuring timely completion.
• Monitor work status and progress and make day-to-day adjustments in accordance with established priorities.
• Maintain current knowledge of procedures, policies, directives, and guidelines; answer employee questions and obtain needed information or decisions from a supervisor when issues arise.
• Maintain stock at primary and secondary inventory locations for clinical and administrative services, including pulling and delivering inventory, replenishing stock, resolving customer issues, and maintaining stock-level records.
• Conduct inventory using barcode equipment and resolve discrepancies between inventory records and physical stock counts.
• Clean assigned areas in accordance with aseptic principles, infection control guidelines, local SOPs, and Joint Commission standards.
• Receive, unpack, store, and distribute supplies and materials; ensure supply sterility and integrity and maintain inventory-management data integrity.
• Coordinate supply-management work and resolve operating issues with clinical and administrative customers and outside vendors.
• Monitor expiration dates and rotate stock.
• Assist in training new employees.

Benefits

• Federal employee benefits package; specific benefits depend on position eligibility.
• VA may grant approved credit for related non-federal experience or active-duty uniformed military service when determining annual leave accrual rate.

What This Job Offers

• Job Type: Full-time
• Career Level: Mid Level
• Education Level: No Education Listed