Unit Logistics Associate I
About The Position
Performs supply-related functions supporting patient care on the St. Raphael Campus. The role includes using handheld PC/PAR EX devices to inventory unit supply areas, putting away supply orders, keeping supply areas neat and orderly, identifying and processing emergency supply orders, participating in reviews and adjustments to unit supply PAR levels, receiving unit supply deliveries, and advocating for medical supply needs in assigned units. Works with patient service managers, nursing, Materials representatives, supply vendors, Customer Service Coordinators, and other materials staff to provide quality customer service and meet patient care needs. The associate also delivers and retrieves equipment and other items to patient care areas, maintains equipment and supply storage areas, identifies broken equipment for repair, transports specimens, operates department dispatch and information systems, distributes linen and warehouse goods, supports contaminated Central Supply item processing, and participates in inventory activities. The role requires lifting supply cases up to 50 pounds, pushing loaded rack tracks, working in confined supply-room spaces, and following OSHA standards.
Requirements
- High school degree or equivalent.
- One to two years of Materials/Supply handling order experience.
- Demonstrated ability to work collaboratively with Patient Services Managers and Material Management Staff.
- Demonstrated competency operating handheld and desktop computer systems for supply ordering, replenishment, and project work, such as Lawson.
- Demonstrated competency in supply management concepts, such as PAR levels.
- Ability to lift cases of supplies up to 50 pounds, push heavy rack tracks loaded with supplies, and work in confined supply-room spaces.
- Must work to OSHA standards.
Nice To Haves
- Experience in a patient care unit or hospital setting.
Responsibilities
- Deliver and retrieve equipment, supplies, flowers, some food items, specimens, medical gases, and other items to patient care areas as directed by dispatch systems.
- Complete dispatched work requests in response to Service Response Center requests and shift leader direction.
- Maintain designated equipment and supply storage areas, including moving equipment to and from those areas.
- Identify and tag unserviceable equipment and work with maintenance to ensure broken equipment is repaired.
- Transport specimens from patient divisions to clinical laboratories and operate the tube system to move specimens or information.
- Use department information systems to retrieve, monitor, and perform department functions; operate and monitor Service Response Center systems.
- Perform other departmental duties as requested, including filling isolation stations on patient care units when necessary.
- Provide courteous, considerate, and helpful customer service in interactions with others.
- Receive linen from the linen plant, distribute it throughout campus, and transfer dirty linen to the transporting trailer.
- Operate electric tow tractors and scooters safely.
- Assist with processing contaminated Central Supply items to ensure proper decontamination.
- Accept supplies, packages, and equipment for distribution to customer departments.
- Perform purchasing-receiver duties.
- Receive goods delivered to the hospital warehouse from the receiving platform.
- Issue warehouse supplies to using departments.
- Replenish shelves in cart-picking aisles.
- Participate in annual fiscal-year inventory and assist with inventory cycle counts.
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What This Job Offers
Job Type
Full-time
Career Level
Entry Level
Education Level
High school or GED
