Materials Management Clerk - Central Distribution - Full Time 8 Hour Rotating Shifts (Non-Exempt) (Union)

C018 University of Southern California- HS; Los Angeles (CA); On-site; USD 30,000 - 47,000; Full time

Job summary

University of Southern California seeks an efficient Materials Assistant to stock, organize, and distribute medical supplies within Keck Hospital. You’ll maintain orderly storerooms, update systems, and ensure timely replenishment per department schedules.

Responsibilities include managing crash carts, supervising inbound/outbound freight, and maintaining label accuracy. Candidates should have a High school diploma and 6 months in a materials environment, with strong ethics and English

Qualifications

• Req High school or equivalent.
• Req 6 months Experience working in a Materials Management, shipping and Receiving or Central Supply/distribution environment required.
• Pref 1 year Experience working in a Materials Management, shipping and Receiving or Central Supply/distribution environment required.
• Req Capable of performing repetitive tasks quickly and accurately.
• Req Must be highly ethical and reliable.
• Req Effective interpersonal and communication skills.
• Req Demonstrate excellent customer service behavior and demonstrates exceptional organizational skills.
• Req Thorough knowledge of all medical supplies utilized within the warehouse and facilities.
• Req Knowledge of sterile technique as it applies to supply distribution.
• Req Ability to operate material handling of equipment to move boxes, equipment and other items.
• Req Ability to speak, read, and write English.

Responsibilities

• Replenish supply locations accurately by stocking supplies in the appropriate bins.
• Assist with deliveries, stocking warehouse shelves and emptying boxes.
• Input issues to the system accurately and in a timely manner per documented daily schedule.
• Maintain storeroom and par locations secured and inventory accuracy checked monthly.
• Perform inventory counts at designated times during shift as assigned.
• Set up crash carts on each shift and maintain a minimum of five available crash carts.
• Receive, inspect, and ship materials, ensuring manifests match and discrepancies are recorded.
• Coordinate outgoing freight for shipment and document bills of lading.

Skills

Inventory management

Customer service

English proficiency

Safety awareness

Teamwork

Sterile technique

Material handling

Communication skills

Education

High school diploma or equivalent

Tools

Pallet jack

Job description

Essential Duties

• Replenish supply locations accurately by stocking supplies in the appropriate bins. All replenishment and delivery must be completed at assigned times and per department procedures.
• No corrugated cardboard should be brought to nursing and clinical areas without prior approval from supervisor.
• Assist with the placement of incoming and non -medical supply in appropriate stock locations by assigned time. All stocking is completed by end of the day.
• Fills and delivers departmental requisitions per schedule assigned.
• Assist with deliveries, stocking warehouse shelves and emptying boxes.
• Input issues to the system accurately and in a timely manner per documented daily schedule.
• Ensure storeroom and par locations are secured properly to make sure security measures are enforced.
• Maintain and check expiration on a supply location as assigned, no less than monthly.
• Maintain clean supply locations that includes bins, items & carts and check accurate label information on each item including storeroom and assigned par locations.
• Perform inventory count at each supply location at designated times during shift at areas assigned by Supervisor when assign to daily distribution role.
• Compile and batch patient charges before end of each shift and send to business office through interoffice mail when assign to daily distribution role.
• Set up crash carts on each shift as needed, maintaining a minimum of five available crash carts at all times.
• Comply with policy relating to expired products on crash carts when assign to daily distribution role.
• Respond immediately to code blue and bring complete crash carts to the location needed when assign to daily distribution role.
• Respond to call downs, prioritizing as necessary, providing service within fifteen minutes of receiving a call when assign to daily distribution role.
• Responsible for receiving all incoming materials, supplies and equipment per organization policy and procedure when assign to daily shipping/receiving role.
• Ensure incoming freight matches provided manifest and records all discrepancies accordingly when assign to daily shipping/receiving role.
• Inspects all shipments for damages or defects and records found damages in shipment on bill of lading and notifies purchasing personnel when assign to daily shipping/receiving role.
• Coordinates outgoing freight for shipment.
• Label, weigh, prepare bill of lading and record in appropriate manifests when assign to daily shipping/receiving role.
• Receives, records, deliver priority freight and refrigerated/frozen within four hour of delivery, delivers regular freight within 24 hours of receipt and obtains signature from receiving party when assign to daily shipping/receiving role.
• Follow hospital and department safety measure while operating facility owned equipment that includes carts, flat bed, hand truck and pallet jack (manual and battery).
• Make a reasonable effort to remove boxes and discard empty boxes on each shift to ensure a clean environment in the storeroom and assigned par locations.
• Maintain clean work areas at all times.
• By the end of the shift, employees will make every effort to maintain work area clean. If unable employees will notify supervision.
• Participate effectively in a team unit with other Materials Management personnel to meet the overall needs of each facility.
• Complete projects and other duties as directed by department management.

Qualifications

• Req High school or equivalent.
• Req 6 months Experience working in a Materials Management, shipping and Receiving or Central Supply/distribution environment required.
• Pref 1 year Experience working in a Materials Management, shipping and Receiving or Central Supply/distribution environment required.
• Req Capable of performing repetitive tasks quickly and accurately.
• Req Must be highly ethical and reliable.
• Req Effective interpersonal and communication skills.
• Req Demonstrate excellent customer service behavior and demonstrates exceptional organizational skills.
• Req Thorough knowledge of all medical supplies utilized within the warehouse and facilities.
• Req Knowledge of sterile technique as it applies to supply distribution.
• Req Ability to operate material handling of equipment to move boxes, equipment and other items.
• Req Ability to speak, read, and write English.
• Pref Computer literacy preferred.
• Req Fire Life Safety Training (LA City). If no card upon hire, one must be obtained within 30 days of hire and maintained by renewal before expiration date. (Required within LA City only)

About Keck Hospital

Keck Hospital of USC, a 343-bed acute care hospital, provides exceptional and innovative care for complex medical and surgical conditions across a wide range of specialties. The hospital’s world-renowned physicians deliver compassionate, customized, patient-centered care and treat the most acutely ill patients with highly innovative techniques and treatment plans. As a leading academic medical center, hundreds of clinical trials are currently taking place at Keck Hospital and its affiliated research institutions, giving patients access to novel and promising therapies that are generally not available elsewhere. Every day at Keck Hospital, physicians, nurses and staff go beyond the science of exceptional medicine to bring patients breakthroughs in the art of caring. Join this world-class team providing highly specialized care, up-to-the-minute research, and innovative clinical trials.

Hourly rate range for this position is $21.84 - $34.48.

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