Logistics Associate

Responsibilities

• Delivers and retrieves a variety of equipment (including but not limited to Beds, formulas, cardiac chairs, monitors, pumps), supplies, flowers, some food items, specimens, medical gases, and other items according to dispatcher or dispatch systems, to patient care areas in support of the SLA to ensure the continuity of patient care.
• Maintains designated storage areas for equipment and supplies
• Works with maintenance to ensure broken equipment is repaired
• Transports specimens from patient divisions to clinical laboratories and operates the tube system to ensure proper movement of patient specimens or information.
• Utilizes department information systems to retrieve monitor and perform department's basic missions.
• Performs other dept. duties as requested.
• Customer Relations/Mutual Respect - Demonstrates outstanding of customer service and the Key Behaviors outlined in the Hospital's Core Success Factors in all interactions.
• Receives linen from linen plant and distributes throughout the campus.
• Operates electric tow tractors and scooters always ensuring safe operation
• Affords assistance in the processing of contaminated Central Supply items to ensure proper decontamination.
• Accepts Supplies/packages/equipment for distribution to customer departments
• Performs duties as purchasing receiver
• Receives all goods delivered to the hospital warehouse from the receiving platform.
• Issues warehouse supplies in using departments.
• Replenishes shelves with supplies for cart picking aisles.
• Participates in annual fiscal year inventory and assists in inventory cycle counts.
• Performs other department duties as required to meet the needs of the department.

Qualifications

• A minimum of a high school graduate or GED.
• One year hospital supply operations or equivalent preferred.
• Demonstrated ability to communicate effectively, customer departments, and supervisor.
• Ability to read, write, understand and follow specific written and verbal instructions and procedures.
• Basic math skills.
• Basic level computer skills to operate PC in a windows environment, with ability to learn and demonstrate competency in basic data entry/data retrieval in departmental information systems utilized within unit.
• Operate a variety of materials handling equipment.