Supply Technician

Veterans Health Administration•Colorado Springs, CO

10d•Onsite

About The Position

This position serves as a Supply Technician (Medical) in the Medical Supply Distribution areas of Logistics Service within the VA Health Care System and supported catchment area in Colorado Springs, Colorado. The technician supplies wards, clinics, operating rooms, secondary storage locations, and other hospital facilities with materials such as sterile and non-sterile medical supplies, instrument sets, and equipment. The role involves maintaining inventory and managing excess materials, monitoring stock rotation, hazard alerts and recalls, and ensuring specialty carts are assembled appropriately. The technician pulls and replenishes stock, delivers supplies in a timely and accurate manner, maintains stock-level records, and communicates supply, equipment, or procedural concerns to a lead or supervisor. Assigned areas must be cleaned in accordance with aseptic principles, infection-control guidelines, local SOPs, and Joint Commission standards. The position requires a current, valid state-issued driver's license; operating a motor vehicle may be required. The work schedule is Monday through Friday, 7:30 a.m. to 4:00 p.m. Telework is not authorized, and the position is not virtual. The work occurs throughout the medical center and supported catchment areas, including wards, storage buildings, warehouses, clinics, operating rooms, and nursing areas. Some supported units may be offsite, requiring round-trip travel exceeding 90 minutes. Although the stated schedule is weekdays, tours of duty may require afternoon, evening, and/or overnight shifts. The work involves standing and walking throughout the workday, frequent reaching, bending, and lifting supply packages (occasionally up to 50 pounds), and pushing loaded medical-supply carts weighing over 100 pounds. With proper assistance, the technician may move items over 40 pounds. Work environments may range from clean to hot, cold, drafty, and poorly lit, and may involve dust or infectious pollutants. Trips, falls, scrapes, cuts, bruises, or other injuries are possible.

Requirements

U.S. citizenship is required.
A current, valid state-issued driver's license is required.
For the experience route, one year of specialized experience equivalent to at least GS-04 is required, including relevant medical-supply delivery, computerized/bar-coding or automated inventory control, sterile and operational supply handling, critical-supply monitoring, or stock rotation and expiration-date control.
Alternatively, applicants may qualify with four years of education above high school in a qualifying accredited institution, or a qualifying combination of experience and post-high-school education; for GS-05, only education beyond 60 semester hours (two years) is creditable in the combination route.
Current federal employees and certain former federal employees must meet the GS-05 time-in-grade requirement of 52 weeks at GS-04, when applicable.
Knowledge of standard supply management procedures, inventory and excess-material management, stock rotation, hazard alerts, recalls, and specialty-cart items and terminology.
Analytical ability to identify problems, collect relevant data, and recommend solutions.
Computer skills, including Microsoft Word and Excel, sufficient to enter information and manage supply inventory.
Ability to meet the physical demands of standing and walking throughout the workday, frequent reaching, bending, lifting, and pushing loaded carts.
Must complete the required application steps and online assessment; selected applicants are subject to a background/security investigation and onboarding requirements.
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.

Nice To Haves

Two or more years of warehouse experience.
Ability to sit or stand for potentially lengthy durations.
Ability to lift items of varying weights as needed, sometimes repetitively.
Ability to safely operate government vehicles as required.

Responsibilities

Provide medical supplies, instrument sets, equipment, and other materials to wards, clinics, operating rooms, secondary storage locations, and other hospital facilities.
Perform inventory and excess-material management using standard supply management procedures.
Monitor stock rotation, hazard alerts, recalls, and expiration dates; remove outdated or compromised supplies from use.
Build specialty carts appropriately using knowledge of related terminology and items.
Pull and deliver stock and materials in a timely and accurate manner, ensuring supplies are in sterile and operational condition.
Replenish stock inventory and maintain records of stock levels.
Monitor and control critical supplies.
Clean assigned areas in accordance with aseptic principles, infection-control guidelines, local SOPs, and Joint Commission standards.
Communicate concerns related to supplies, equipment, and procedures to a lead or supervisor.
Operate a motor vehicle when required and safely perform duties that may involve supported offsite units.