Position Summary: This role involves maintaining and tracking medication inventory, supporting pharmacy operations, ensuring compliance with regulations, and collaborating with pharmacists and staff to deliver high-quality pharmaceutical services.
Responsibilities
- Maintains and tracks medication inventory by sorting, placing, and storing freight in appropriate locations, restocking and replenishing medication, reporting low stock levels, ensuring first‑in, first‑out stock rotation to assist in shrinkage control, performing inventory cycle counts, assisting with physical counts, creating reports using inventory information systems, and monitoring prescription inventory for expired pharmaceuticals.
- Supports facility with reporting and paperwork to ensure productivity and pharmaceutical integrity by entering and modifying pharmaceutical data on the system, processing and submitting paperwork, creating and maintaining documentation (files, manuals, forms, records, supplies, memos, correspondence), identifying and resolving discrepancies, and preparing reports of pharmacy activities and inventory, including state board mandated testing of counting devices and informing management about inefficient processes.
- Promotes and maintains the pharmacy’s professional reputation and delivers pharmacy products and services to patients in accordance with local, state, and federal laws and corporate policies by assisting the pharmacist in the prescription fulfillment process, stocking and rotating merchandise and supplies from distribution centers and suppliers, handling claims and returns, completing and securing paperwork and other required documentation, and maintaining a safe and clean work environment.
- Ensures fulfillment of pharmacy prescriptions under the supervision of a pharmacist in an automated central fill pharmacy to maintain a continuous and consistent workflow, meet daily production and quality goals by using the scanner to identify and select pharmaceutical products and quantities, verifying sizes and strengths before processing orders, verifying displays for pack and quantity, entering expiration dates and lot numbers, labeling prescriptions, weighing medication for accuracy, preparing packages, distributing medications in a fast‑paced production environment, and replenishing automated counting machines.
- Maintains quality accuracy and integrity of inventory for pharmaceuticals supplies by utilizing automated inventory control scanners and systems to track and ensure timely and appropriate delivery and stocking, ensuring adherence to and documentation of inventory control procedures, auditing and testing pill cell performance per schedule, managing pill cell information databases, troubleshooting performance issues, identifying and properly discarding hazardous waste, processing recalled and expired pharmaceuticals, and disposing or processing return of outdated stock for credit.
- Maintains pharmacy systems and technology (inventory systems, automated medication counting machines) by preparing informational records and reports to ensure accurate data and system compliance with policies and regulations, monitoring inventory levels and expiration dates, calibrating machines, applying settings to pill or capsule specifications to minimize breakage, ensuring continuous replenishment using computer and scanner screens, and troubleshooting pill cell issues such as jamming during production.
- Complies with company policies, procedures, and standards of ethics and integrity by implementing action plans using the Open Door Policy and applying them in business processes and practices.
- Completes work assignments and priorities by using policies, data, and resources, collaborating with managers, coworkers, customers, and other partners; identifying priorities, deadlines, and expectations; carrying out tasks, communicating progress and information; determining and recommending ways to address improvement opportunities; and adapting to and learning from change difficulties and feedback.
Qualifications
- Meets state requirements to work as a Pharmacy Technician, such as minimum age, qualification, registration, certification, and/or licensure when required by the State Board of Pharmacy.
Preferred Qualifications
- Pharmacy Technician Career Diploma through Live Better U and Penn Foster.
Benefits
At Walmart, we offer competitive pay as well as performance‑based bonus awards and other great benefits for a happier mind, body, and wallet. Health benefits include medical, vision and dental coverage. Financial benefits include 401(k), stock purchase and company‑paid life insurance. Paid time off benefits include PTO (including sick leave), parental leave, family care leave, bereavement, jury duty, and voting. Other benefits include short‑term and long‑term disability, company discounts, Military Leave Pay, adoption and surrogacy expense reimbursement, and more. You will also receive PTO and/or PPTO that can be used for vacation, sick leave, holidays, or other purposes. The amount you receive depends on your job classification and length of employment. It will meet or exceed the requirements of paid sick leave laws, where applicable. For information about PTO, see https://one.walmart.com/notices. Live Better U is a Walmart‑paid education benefit program for full‑time and part‑time associates in Walmart and Sam’s Club facilities. Programs range from high school completion to bachelor’s degrees, including English Language Learning and short‑form certificates. Tuition, books, and fees are completely paid for by Walmart.
- Regional Pay Zone (RPZ) (based on location)
The hourly wage range for this position is $20.50 - $33.50*. The actual hourly rate will equal or exceed the required minimum wage applicable to the job location. Additional compensation includes annual or quarterly performance bonuses. Additional compensation for certain positions may also include.
Eligibility requirements apply to some benefits and may depend on your job classification and length of employment. Benefits are subject to change and may be subject to a specific plan or program terms.
For Information About Benefits And Eligibility, see One.Walmart.
Location
Primary Location: 4910 Executive Ct S Ste D, Bldg 203, Frederick, MD 21703-7489, United States of America
Company Commitment
Walmart and its subsidiaries are committed to maintaining a drug‑free workplace and have a no‑tolerance policy regarding the use of illegal drugs and alcohol on the job. This policy applies to all employees and aims to create a safe and productive work environment.