Procedural Area Materials Tech

About the role

Receives, inspects, stores, delivers, and issues materials, supplies, and equipment. Maintains inventory levels by checking shelves, restocking supply carts, and maintaining supply records.

Responsibilities

• Acts as liaison for all replenishment orders, managing recalls and product conversions within designated areas of assigned responsibility.
• Assists in the care and maintenance of departmental equipment and supplies.
• Conducts daily replenishment actions for primarily non-stock inventory items supporting OR, SPD, and OR rooms; performs shelf audits, verifies order quantities, and places orders.
• Receives and puts away daily orders received for primarily non-stock supply items.
• Handles special orders with different levels of impact on OR operations.
• Makes accurate assessment for specified procedures.
• Contributes to the achievement of established department goals and objectives and adheres to department policies, procedures, quality standards, and safety standards.
• Complies with governmental and accreditation regulations.
• Ensures consumable supplies are rotated regularly and accurately controlled to reduce obsolescence, expirations, and waste within an inventory location.
• Coordinates product recalls.
• Ensures that supplies and equipment received are processed and distributed in a timely manner.
• Plans, organizes, and directs all phases of product distribution activities.
• Plans and coordinates the transfer of materials.
• Maintains OR storage locations in a neat and orderly fashion, making sure that bin location labels are complete and accurate.
• Loads or unloads material, equipment, merchandise, and supplies from supply delivery carts for OR inventory.
• Routes incoming goods to the assigned location.
• Arranges adequate space allocations for storage of products and modifies distribution techniques and practices as required.
• Maintains effective working relationships with other departments and participates in multidisciplinary quality and service improvement teams.
• Monitors par levels/quantities and reviews with each end-user on a periodic basis; reports results to Manager, OR Material Services.
• Participates in multidisciplinary quality and service improvement teams as appropriate.
• Plans, prepares, executes, and performs scheduled physical and cycle count inventories of assigned areas; assists with post-inventory problem resolution for hospital's annual physical inventory, working directly with Supply Chain Management Leadership Team and department management appropriately.
• Promotes individual professional growth and development by meeting requirements for mandatory/continuing education and skills competency; supports department-based goals which contribute to the success of the MedStar organization.
• Receives incoming materials, supplies, and equipment and compares information on packing slip with purchase order to verify accuracy of shipment against purchase order.
• Inspects shipments for damages or defects, records discrepancies or damages in shipment, and notifies supervisor or purchasing personnel.
• Receives requests for supplies, selects stock from inventory, loads distribution vehicles, and distributes supplies and special instruments to requisitioning departments.
• Obtains authorization for accepted items.
• Resolves shipping errors including overstock, understock, and damaged items by communicating with supervisor and completing all item return activities.
• Utilizes inventory management system to evaluate current inventory level, identify potential overstock, and identify potential obsolescence, and forwards information to Manager, OR Material Services for reports.

Qualifications

Education

• High School Diploma or GED required