Lead Supply Technician

Veterans Health Administration•Bay Pines, FL

9d•Onsite

About The Position

This position serves as Lead Supply Technician for Medical Supply Distribution within Logistics Service at a VA Health Care System. The role ensures supplies and materials are distributed to wards, clinics, operating rooms, secondary storage locations, and other hospital facilities. Items include sterile and non-sterile medical supplies, instrument sets, and equipment. The Lead Supply Technician coordinates employees’ workload, monitors work progress, and adjusts priorities to support timely completion. The position maintains inventory at primary and secondary locations, receives and stores supplies, performs barcode-based inventory, resolves inventory discrepancies, and maintains supply records. It also ensures assigned areas are cleaned according to aseptic principles and applicable infection-control guidelines, local SOPs, and Joint Commission standards. The role coordinates with clinical and administrative customers and outside vendors to resolve supply-management issues. The position is full-time, Monday through Friday, 7:00 a.m. to 3:30 p.m. Telework and virtual work are not available. The role requires a valid driver’s license, a Training-Service Agreement and Mobility Agreement, participation in the seasonal influenza vaccination program, and completion of a probationary or trial period. Physical work includes standing and walking throughout the workday, frequent bending and lifting, pushing loaded carts, and working in varied areas of a medical center, including environments that may be hot, cold, drafty, or poorly lit.

Requirements

One full year of specialized experience equivalent to the GS-5 level in the Federal service, typically related to the work of the position.
Specialized experience must include distributing supplies and materials, including medical supplies, instrument sets, and equipment; scanning, bar-coding, receiving, storing, and distributing supplies; maintaining and replenishing stock and stock-level records; monitoring expiration dates and rotating stock; cleaning assigned areas according to aseptic principles; and receiving supplies into a facility.
Current Federal employees seeking GS-07 consideration who held a GS grade during the past 52 weeks must have 52 weeks at GS-05 and submit an SF-50 demonstrating time-in-grade eligibility.
U.S. citizenship is required.
Selective Service registration is required for males born after December 31, 1959.
Must complete a background/security investigation and online onboarding process, including providing acceptable identification.
Must agree to a Training-Service Agreement and Mobility Agreement.
Must participate in the seasonal influenza vaccination program.
Must have a valid driver’s license to operate a motor vehicle.
Must serve a one-year probationary period or two-year trial period, as applicable.
Physical ability to stand and walk throughout the workday; frequently bend and lift supply packages, occasionally weighing as much as 50 pounds; and regularly push loaded medical-supply carts weighing over 100 pounds. Heavier items over 40 pounds are moved with assistance or weight-handling equipment.
Ability to operate barcode scanners, computers, and printers.
The position is rated on customer service, flexibility, integrity/honesty, interpersonal skills, reading comprehension, reasoning, self-management, and teamwork.

Responsibilities

Distribute and balance employees’ workloads according to established workflow or job specialization, and ensure timely completion.
Monitor work status and progress and make day-to-day adjustments based on established priorities.
Answer employees’ questions about procedures, policies, directives, and guidelines, and obtain information or decisions from a supervisor when needed.
Maintain stock at primary and secondary inventory locations for clinical and administrative services.
Pull stock and materials from inventory for delivery, replenish stock, resolve customer issues, and maintain stock-level records.
Perform inventory using barcode equipment and resolve discrepancies between inventory records and physical counts.
Clean assigned areas according to aseptic principles, infection-control guidelines, local SOPs, and Joint Commission standards.
Receive, unpack, store, and maintain the sterility and integrity of supplies and materials, as well as the accuracy of inventory-management data.
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.
Stock supplies at primary and secondary inventory locations throughout the medical center.