Materials Attendant

Advocate Health • Burlington, VT

4d • $20 - $30 • Onsite

About The Position

The Materials Attendant is responsible for receiving, inspecting, and verifying incoming materials and equipment. This role ensures efficient and accurate record-keeping for the receipt, storage, and distribution of supplies and equipment. The attendant prepares, distributes, and transports materials to various facilities and departments, responding to issue requisitions, customer requests, and replenishment schedules. Key duties include warehousing, maintaining inventory levels, performing issues and credits, replenishing specialty carts and kits, and managing the return of materials to vendors. The position also requires maintaining security, orderliness, and cleanliness in all working areas, with a focus on checking and rotating materials to remove outdated or damaged items.

Requirements

• Ability to operate and understand basic computer functions, data entry systems and devices.
• High School Graduate.
• No experience required.

Nice To Haves

• Operates all equipment necessary to perform the duties of the job including but not limited to data entry into Material Management Computer System, data entry into hand-held computers, operation of material handling machinery (i.e., Reach trucks, order pickers, pallet movers).

Responsibilities

• Receives incoming materials and equipment and inspects/verifies the accuracy and the condition of the items before signing for the delivery.
• Ensures efficient and accurate record-keeping systems to verify receipt, storage and distribution of supplies and equipment.
• Prepares, distributes and transports supplies and equipment for safe and appropriate distribution to facilities, departments, or other entities as required.
• Provides for the timely distribution of all supplies and equipment in response to issue requisitions, customer requests, defined replenishment schedules and purchase orders.
• Warehouses and maintains inventory levels and performs issues and credits for supplies and equipment as necessary.
• Replenishes and maintains specialty carts, trays and kits (Code Carts, Isolation Carts, Lime Trays, etc.) checking for outdated supplies as necessary.
• Ensures proper preparation, packaging, initiation of return, and any required follow-up to returned material to vendors as instructed by appropriate documentation.
• Maintains security, orderliness, and cleanliness in all working areas while providing for the continual checking, rotation and removal of outdated and/or damaged materials.

Benefits

• Paid Time Off programs
• medical
• dental
• vision
• life
• Short- and Long-Term Disability
• Flexible Spending Accounts for eligible health care and dependent care expenses
• adoption assistance
• paid parental leave
• Defined contribution retirement plans with employer match and other financial wellness programs
• Educational Assistance Program

What This Job Offers

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