What are the responsibilities and job description for the Supply Chain Technician position at HCA Houston Healthcare Kingwood?
Introduction
Are you looking for a work environment where diversity and inclusion thrive? Submit your application for our Supply Chain Technician opening with HCA Houston Healthcare Kingwood today and find out what it truly means to be a part of the HCA Healthcare team.
Benefits
HCA Houston Healthcare Kingwood offers a total rewards package that supports the health, life, career, and retirement of our colleagues. The available plans and programs include:
- Comprehensive medical coverage that covers many common services at no cost or for a low copay. Plans include prescription drug and behavioral health coverage as well as free telemedicine services and free AirMed medical transportation.
- Additional options for dental and vision benefits, life and disability coverage, flexible spending accounts, supplemental health protection plans (accident, critical illness, hospital indemnity), auto and home insurance, identity theft protection, legal counseling, long-term care coverage, moving assistance, pet insurance and more.
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Free counseling services and resources for emotional, physical, and financial well-being
- 401(k) Plan with a 100% match on 3% to 9% of pay (based on years of service)
- Employee Stock Purchase Plan with 10% off HCA Healthcare stock
- Family support through fertility and family building benefits with Progyny and adoption assistance.
- Referral services for child, elder, and pet care, home, and auto repair, event planning, and more
- Consumer discounts through Abenity and Consumer Discounts
- Retirement readiness, rollover assistance services, and preferred banking partnerships
- Education assistance (tuition, student loan, certification support, dependent scholarships)
- Colleague recognition program
- Time Away From Work Program (paid time off, paid family leave, long- and short-term disability coverage, and leaves of absence)
- Employee Health Assistance Fund that offers free employee-only coverage to full-time and part-time colleagues based on income.
Learn more about Employee Benefits.
Note: Eligibility for benefits may vary by location.
We are seeking a(an) Supply Chain Technician for our team to ensure that we continue to provide all patients with high-quality, efficient care. Did you get into our industry for these reasons? We are an amazing team that works hard to support each other and are seeking a phenomenal addition like you who feels patient care is as meaningful as we do. We want you to apply!
Job Summary and Qualifications
The Supply Chain Technician is responsible for receiving, keying, and promptly distributing all supplies within the facility and reviewing and maintaining all Min/Max levels for storeroom safety stock and all other stocking locations. The Supply Chain Technician is also responsible for conducting physical inventory of all POU areas according to the schedule.
What you will do in this role:
- Deliver supplies in an accurate and timely, manner.
- Is authorized to transport and deliver legend drugs, non-prescription drugs, contrast media and drug-containing devices relative to core competencies of the position
- Place safety stock in proper location
- Receive expedited deliveries, accurately key receiving into the SMART system, and deliver to the appropriate department(s)
- Receive all cross-docked items into the SMART system as appropriate
- Review Min/Max for storeroom safety stock daily and place orders appropriately
- Count par-level areas (POU areas) weekly according to the schedule
- Ensure POU items have the appropriate barcodes
- Perform QA random checks on totes per approved policy
- Rotate stock in POU areas and backup storeroom areas to ensure no items are out of date
- Check after-hour logs for charges and determine how to avoid reoccurrence
- React appropriately to POU “critical point” messages and stock outs
- Process all “returns to vendor” or “returns to backup stock” appropriately
- Assist the POU Station personnel as well as assist with problems, questions, and concerns at the nurse's stations
What qualifications you will need:
- High School Graduate / GED
- Previous stock clerk experience Preferred
- Some hospital supply experience Preferred
- Prior experience in processing Purchase Orders Preferred
- Experience working with LTL and Delivery Service companies.
- Strong inductive reasoning skills, strong attention to detail and follow through.
HealthTrust Supply Chain is a critical part of HCA Healthcare’s strategy. Our focus is to improve performance and reduce costs. We do this by joining non-clinical and administrative functions. HealthTrust Supply Chain best practice methodologies. We develop, apply and monitor cost-efficient initiatives and programs for HCA Healthcare. By improving facility efficiency, medical professionals can focus on our mission - patient care.
HCA Healthcare has been recognized as one of the World’s Most Ethical Companies® by the Ethisphere Institute more than ten times. In recent years, HCA Healthcare spent an estimated $3.7 billion in cost for the delivery of charitable care, uninsured discounts, and other uncompensated expenses.
"There is so much good to do in the world and so many different ways to do it."- Dr. Thomas Frist, Sr.
HCA Healthcare Co-Founder
If you find this opportunity compelling, we encourage you to apply for our Supply Chain Technician opening. We promptly review all applications. Highly qualified candidates will be directly contacted by a member of our team. We are interviewing apply today!
We are an equal opportunity employer and value diversity at our company. We do not discriminate on the basis of race, religion, color, national origin, gender, sexual orientation, age, marital status, veteran status, or disability status.
