Materials Handler

Job Responsibilities

• Receive, stock, fill, and send supplies ordered by clients and phlebotomists via fax, email, and inter-departmental mail.
• Solve problems via phone/email by contacting clients and/or phlebotomists.
• Verify outstanding supplies ordered by clients with the supervisor.
• Receive and stock supplies from all vendors according to department protocol.
• Ensure that supplies received in the supply room are stored together in an area designated for the department in which they are used.
• Label all containers with the date of receipt.
• Check invoices and packing slips to ensure that the number ordered and received are the same, note back-ordered items, and give the invoice to appropriate personnel to be processed.
• Place labeled containers on appropriate shelving in the department.
• Physically shelves and rotates stock per department procedure as directed by the Department Supervisor/Manager or Lead, ensuring that new stock is moved to the back and older stock to the front of the storage area.
• Observe date of receipt along with expiration date on supplies to ensure that supplies with the shortest date are used first (FIFO).
• Remove, collapse, and dispose of empty boxes, cardboard, and packing material, placing them in a large cardboard bin in the dock area.
• Discard all cardboard in a large trash bin outside at the end of each day.
• Inventory general lab items from various vendors on a daily basis.
• Dispose of biohazard materials following strict departmental policies and procedures for such disposal.
• Establish and maintain effective working relationships with those contacted in the course of work.
• Deliver lab supplies to various lab areas.
• Pull, pick, and pack client supply orders.
• Assist the lab in the receipt of large refrigerated orders.
• Perform all job responsibilities in alignment with the industry's best security practices and regulatory guidelines to protect the confidentiality, integrity, and availability of protected health information and other sensitive company data.
• Be familiar with and abide by the Corporate Compliance Program and all Corporate policies, including the Privacy and Security policies.

Non-essential Functions

• Work with other departments within PathGroup and subsidiaries.