What are the responsibilities and job description for the Stores Associate position at Great River Health?
Minimum Hiring Wage:
From $16.50 per hour
Job Details:
Scheduled Hours: Day Shift
Job Description:
A Brief Overview
Provides day-to-day fulfillment and planning related activities for all areas of the hospital and clinics. Performs duties in computerized order entry, distribution of all supplies, linen, equipment. Able to maintain good inventory management processes, meeting supply needs with prompt delivery and assuring accuracy. Ensures the good working order and availability of equipment to our Great River Health customers. Understands Par locations. Uses a scanning device to scan par locations to replenish supplies. Maintains clean work area. Has good and open communication with the team lead, Buyers, and managers regarding supply shortages.
What you will do
Provides day-to-day fulfillment and planning related activities for all areas of the hospital and clinics. Performs duties in computerized order entry, distribution of all supplies, linen, equipment. Able to maintain good inventory management processes, meeting supply needs with prompt delivery and assuring accuracy. Ensures the good working order and availability of equipment to our Great River Health customers. Understands Par locations. Uses a scanning device to scan par locations to replenish supplies. Maintains clean work area. Has good and open communication with the team lead, Buyers, and managers regarding supply shortages.
What you will do
- To ensure our hospitals and clinics are stocked appropriately with supplies and linens. Being good stewards of our resources. Providing great customer services every day to both internal and external customers.
- Have responsibilities in at least one of the following areas to ensure optimal inventory management for in-scope facilities:* Distribute and restock supplies and/or linen to end users in accordance with established policies and procedures* Use appropriate Supply Chain technologies (Workday and ParEx) to document movement of supplies* Perform cycle count on a regular basis to ensure accuracy of stock levels in all areas* Check expiration dates on supplies on a regular basis and document and discard expired products* Accept and sign for deliveries from distributors as necessary* Inspect shipments, enter Goods Receipts into SAP, filing packing slips as a backup for shipping & receiving specialist* Report identified shipment discrepancies to SCM onsite management* Prepare and ship out Vendor Returns, rotation of stock in all areas* Move and stock supplies to appropriate shelfing locations once receiving is complete* Transport shipments from loading dock to stockroom and deliver packages to appropriate purchasers. Deliver non-supply items when specified (e.g. medical gas, linen) in a timely manner* Participate and perform cycle and year-end inventory counts* Ensure all STAT orders are completed according to specified service level agreement* Demonstrate excellent customer service when interacting with end customers to address linen and/or supply questions.* Ensure all Supply Chain work areas are clean and organized, including all other supply storage areas throughout the facility* Proactively provide recommendations on operational efficiency improvements to Supply Chain management* Take ownership and accountability for process improvements* Check and supply all crash carts as needed* Mailroom duties as assigned
Qualifications
- H.S. Diploma or General Education Degree (GED) Required
- Associate’s Degree (AA) Preferred
- 1-3 years previous experience Preferred
- Knowledge of raw materials, production processes, quality control, costs, and other techniques for maximizing the effective receiving and distribution of goods.
- Aid or direction to other stockroom, warehouse, or supply workers.
- Prepare and maintain records and reports of inventories pick lists, shortages, shipments, expenditures, and goods used or issued.
- Issue or distribute materials, products, parts, and supplies to customers or coworkers, based on information from incoming requisitions.
- Recommend disposal of excess, defective, or obsolete stock.
- Obtaining and seeing to the appropriate use of equipment, facilities, and materials needed to do certain work.
- Determining how a system should work and how changes in conditions, operations, and the environment will affect outcomes.
- Controlling operations of equipment or systems
- Teaching others how to do something.
- Determining causes of operating errors and deciding what to do about it.
- Talking to others to convey information effectively
- The ability to listen to and understand information and ideas presented through spoken words and sentences.
- The ability to tell when something is wrong or is likely to go wrong. It does not involve solving the problem, only recognizing there is a problem
- The ability to arrange things or actions in a certain order or pattern according to a specific rule or set of rules (e.g., patterns of numbers, letters, words, supplies).
- Must have the ability to exert 20 to 50 pounds of force occasionally, and or 10 to 25 pounds of force frequently, and up to 10 pounds of force constantly to move objects. In this job the exertional requirements to push/pull the unloaded and loaded supply carts with the duty requiring up to 100 pounds of exertional force daily. Reaching, lifting, stooping, and bending are frequent in daily duties.
- Ability to strive to improve processes to enhance services.
- Work cooperatively with others to achieve organizational and team goals.
- Ability to contribute to creating new ideas and problem solving.
- Possess a sense of urgency and a proactive customer service philosophy
- Competency in inventory management
Qualifications:
Monitor, maintain and distribute linens to specific areas for patient care. Daily ordering of linen carts and stock for linen room for additional usage and availability. Track and input totals pounds into the Linenmaster software system for documentation of usage per locations for reporting.
Benefits:
We are excited to offer an aggressive compensation and benefits package for qualifying positions, which includes:
- Competitive base pay
- Matching retirement programs
- Health, Dental and Vision plans
- Health Savings and Flexible Spending Accounts
- Employee discounts including car rental, cell-phone plans
- Employer-paid, Long-Term Disability, Life, and AD&D
- Paid time off (PTO)
- Education Assistance Program
- Employee Assistance Program
- Employee Referral Bonus Program
- Discounted cafeteria meals
- Paid Parental Leave
- Employee Service Recognition program
- Voluntary plans including: Life, AD&D, Short-Term Disability, Critical Illness, Accident, Insurance, and Hospital Indemnity
Great River Health and its affiliates are Equal Opportunity employers. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity and expression, age, national origin, mental or physical disability, genetic information, veteran status, or any other status protected by federal, state, or local law.
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