What are the responsibilities and job description for the Warehouse Equipment Technician position at Reliable Respiratory?
Warehouse Equipment Technician – Job Description
About Reliable Respiratory
Reliable Respiratory is a Durable Medical Equipment (DME) company that provides the highest quality level of service for patients in need of respiratory, diabetes, urology, and maternity support. Equipment provided includes CPAPs, BiPAPs, AutoPAPs, nebulizers, oxygen equipment, ventilators, CGM devices, insulin pumps, and breast pumps.
Each patient is treated with professionalism, understanding, and attentive service. We care about our customers, work closely with the medical community, and have highly skilled staff ready to assist customers in receiving the best care possible.
Job Purpose
The Warehouse Equipment Technician is responsible for the day-to-day tasks of Reliable Respiratory’s Norwood Warehouse. The includes ensuring the timely and accurate posting of receivables/patient returns and following company cleaning/testing equipment processes and procedures. In addition, the position is responsible for checking and refurbishing equipment.
Job Purpose
- Clean and test all equipment except ventilators.
- Maintain daily written cleaning/refurb logs.
- Enter maintenance notes as part of the cleaning/refurb.
- Process product return from daily mail and staff pick up.
- Ensure cleaning/refurb area stays in compliance with JCAHO standards.
- Pick, stage, and ships orders as needed.
- Assist in Physical Inventory.
- Stock shelves as needed.
- Provide technical support for other staff as needed.
- Ensure that all paperwork/packing slips are properly executed.
- Assist with transfer equipment and or supplies.
- Demonstrate leadership by ensuring consistent priorities are achieved.
- Stage equipment for upcoming appointments and be proactive in minimizing warehouse errors.
- Keep the warehouse organized, clean and orderly.
- Ensure trash and boxes are disposed of daily and properly in dumpster.
- Other duties may be assigned.
Basic Qualifications
- 21 years of age or older
- Must be eligible to work in the United States and not require work authorization from us now or in the future.
- Must have a High School diploma or equivalent.
- Have a valid and current driver’s license from the state of residence.
- Have no more than 2 moving violations or at fault accidents on the driving record within the past 3 years.
- Have no misdemeanor conviction relating in any way to the operation of a motor vehicle where you have been convicted of, or released from incarceration, within the past three years (other than a first conviction for any of the following misdemeanors: drunkenness, simple assault, speeding, minor traffic violations, affray or disturbance of the peace) and no felony convictions
Required Skills
- Effective and professional verbal and written communication skills
- Ability to reconcile multiple shifting logistical factors for each appointment.
- Ability to work independently to investigate and make decisions.
- Computer skills (Microsoft Office)
- Familiar with FDA regulations
- Ability to work flexible hours and be on-call outside of normal business hours when required.
- Ability to comply with guidelines both internal and industry imposed.
- Bilingual in English and Spanish preferred
Competencies
- Communication Skills
- Dependability
- Ethics
- Organizational Skills
- Technical Skills
- Result Driven
Work Environment & Physical Demands
The physical demands described here are representative of those that must be met by an employee to successfully perform the essential functions of this job. Reasonable accommodations may be made to enable individuals with disabilities to perform the essential functions.
- While performing the duties of this job, the employee is regularly required to maintain a stationary position; place, detect, inspect, position equipment or other elements of the assigned tasks, communicate, exchange information and converse with patients, vendors, coworkers.
- This position occasionally is required to move, traverse, ascend/descend, balance or position self to complete the assigned tasks.
- This position must regularly exert up to 100 pounds of force, and/or a significant amount of force to move, position, transport, install objects. Specific vision abilities required by this job include close vision, distance vision, depth perception, and ability to adjust focus.
- This position is required to operate a motor vehicle.
The work environment characteristics described here are representative of those an employee encounters while performing the essential functions of this job.
- While performing the duties of this, the employee is frequently exposed to cleaning product fumes and dust and is occasionally exposed to outside weather conditions.
- The noise level in the work environment is usually moderate to loud.
- This job entails possible occasional exposure to body fluids which can contain blood-borne pathogens.
- This position may entail possible exposure to hazardous material including liquid or gaseous oxygen.
Direct Reports – None
Other Duties
Please note this job description is not designed to cover or contain a comprehensive listing of activities, duties or responsibilities that are required of the employee for this job. Duties, responsibilities and activities may change at any time with or without notice.
