Supply Technician (Medical)

Veterans Health Administration • Asheville, NC

9h • Onsite

About The Position

This position serves as a Supply Technician (Medical) in the Medical Supply Distribution areas of Logistics Service within a VA Health Care System. The technician provides wards, clinics, operating rooms, secondary storage locations, and other hospital facilities with medical supplies, instruments, equipment, and other materials. Duties include inventory management, receiving and distributing supplies, customer service, and maintaining clean assigned areas in accordance with aseptic principles.

The work takes place throughout the medical center and supported catchment areas, including wards, storage buildings, and warehouses. Environments may range from clean to hot, cold, drafty, or poorly lit. Supported units may be offsite, with roundtrip travel time exceeding 90 minutes. The stated work schedule is 7:00 a.m.–3:30 p.m.; tours may also require afternoon, evening, or overnight shifts, and possible nights and weekends.

Requirements

• U.S. citizenship is required.
• One year of specialized experience equivalent to the GS-4 level, or qualifying education, or an equivalent combination of experience and education.
• Specialized experience includes providing supplies and materials to clinical or administrative areas; scanning, bar-coding, receiving, storing, and distributing supplies and instruments; pulling and replenishing stock; maintaining stock-level records; monitoring expiration dates; cleaning assigned areas under applicable regulations and policy; using an automated inventory system; and answering customer questions about supplies and materials.
• For current or former Federal employees subject to the time-in-grade requirement, 52 weeks at GS-04 is required for a GS-05 position.
• The education substitution is four years above high school in any field, completed at an accredited qualifying institution; transcripts are required when qualifying based on education.
• For the GS-05 combination pathway, only education beyond 60 semester hours (two years) is creditable; transcripts are required.
• Must complete the application, questionnaire, and required online assessment.
• Selective Service registration is required for males born after December 31, 1959.
• Must undergo a background/security investigation and complete online onboarding and employment eligibility documentation.
• Participation in the seasonal influenza vaccination program is required for VA Health Care Personnel.
• Must serve a one-year probationary period or two-year trial period, as applicable.
• Physical work includes standing and walking throughout the workday; frequent reaching, bending, and lifting supply packages occasionally weighing up to 50 pounds; and pushing loaded medical-supply carts weighing over 100 pounds. Heavier items over 40 pounds may be moved with proper assistance.
• Work may involve dust or other infectious pollutants and a risk of trips, falls, scrapes, cuts, bruises, or injury.

Responsibilities

• Pull stock inventory and materials for delivery and replenish stock inventory.
• Interact with clinical and administrative customers and maintain records on stock levels.
• Communicate supply, equipment, and procedure concerns to the Lead or Supervisor.
• Provide customers with information about medical supplies.
• Monitor expiration dates, rotate stock to limit outdates, and remove outdated items from use.
• Monitor and control critical supplies.
• Perform scheduled daily inventory using bar-coding equipment to support timely replenishment.
• Resolve differences between inventory records and physical stock counts.
• Distribute items according to established or ad hoc requirements in computerized inventory management systems.
• Deliver supplies in a timely manner and ensure delivered supplies and materials are sterile and operational.
• Prepare specialty carts.
• Clean assigned secondary areas in accordance with aseptic principles.
• Receive supplies and materials into the medical center's catchment area.
• Stock supplies in primary and secondary inventory locations throughout the hospital and supported areas.

Benefits

• Federal employee benefits package available to the employee and family; specific benefits depend on position eligibility.
• VA may offer newly appointed Federal employees credit for job-related non-federal experience or active-duty uniformed military service when determining annual leave accrual, subject to approval before appointment.

What This Job Offers

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