Material Handler

Responsibilities

• Provide support to the hospital supervisor on project work.
• Collaborate with management to improve daily activates.
• Supporting areas that care for patients with higher level of acuity and volume.
• Receives product from shipping and receiving area; unpacks and inspects items for damage; verifies accuracy of shipment and inputs information in the warehouse management system.
• Receive, sort, put away, pick and deliver supplies, mail, patient records and other items as required. Rotate stock and check for outdates.
• Possibly, handles returns by completing technical documentation and other required communication.
• Supports Site Managers with communications with customers to fulfill areas’ stocking needs and anticipates future needs.
• Delivers supplies and materials to appropriate floors and health care facilities.
• Monitors the flow of traffic into dock areas, prioritizing deliveries ensuring the safe receipt of goods and supplies.
• Put away freight, supplies, packages, and perishable items from dock facilities using materials handling equipment.
• Verifies accuracy of shipments, checks for damage to goods and documents variances of orders. Prepares goods and supplies for distribution, prioritizing deliveries, sorting and labeling loads ensuring the safe, correct and timely delivery of orders.
• Stocks picking locations using warehouse management system, either manually or utilizing materials handling equipment according to identifying information; size, style, and numbers, ensuring the safe movement of materials.
• Performs physical count of stock for inventory control verification and rotates stock to minimize loss of materials.
• Performs cycle counting as required.
• Surveys, fills, and stocks Nursing floors and clinical areas to maintain inventory levels.
• Delivers items using necessary equipment to appropriate hospital locations, unloads and unpacks cases and stocks designated storage areas with supplies.
• Responds to inquiries related to materials in stock, ordering procedures, status of item, or filled orders.
• Maintains cleanliness of storeroom area; collects pallets from area and stacks for pick up.
• Collaborate with external teams to locate missing packages.
• Performs routine expiry management duties to meet KPIs.
• Ensure product meets quality requirements
• Maintains the proper and appropriate professional and ethical relationship with vendor representatives, conducts business according to established principles and guidelines.
• Other duties as assigned.
  
  

Education

• High School Diploma or GED preferred
  
  

Languages

• N/A
  
  

Certifications

• Must meet all Cleveland Clinic insurance requirements
• May require appropriate Valid Driver’s License (VDL) to drive box truck
  
  

Complexity Of Work

• Requires critical thinking skills, decisive judgment and the ability to work with minimal supervision.
• Must be able to work in a stressful environment and take appropriate action.
  
  

Work Experience

• One year of materials management or related experience preferred.
• Inventory knowledge and basic computer skills preferred
  
  

Physical Requirements

• Requires full range of body motion, including handling and lifting items that weigh up to 50 pounds.
• Requires the ability to push a fully loaded cart weighing up to 800 pounds and pull a 2500-pound pallet using a manual pallet jack.
• Requires standing and walking for extensive periods of time.
• Lifts and carries.
  
  

Personal Protective Equipment

• Follows standard precautions using personal protective equipment as required
  
  

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