This position serves as Supply Technician (Medical) for the Medical Supply Distribution (MSD) areas of Logistics Service within the VA Health Care System. As a Supply Technician, you will provide wards, clinics, operating rooms, secondary storage locations, and other hospital facilities with supplies and material including, but not limited to, sterile and non-sterile medical supplies, instrument sets and equipment.
Duties include, but may not be limited to the following: Pulls stock inventory and material for delivery; replenishes stock inventory; interacts with clinical and administrative customers and maintains records on stock levels; Communicates to the Lead or Supervisor any concerns related to supplies, equipment and procedures.
Provides information to customers regarding medical supplies; Monitors expiration dates, rotates stock to limit outdates and removes items from use as required by outdates; Monitors and controls critical supplies; Performs daily inventory using bar coding equipment on a predetermined schedule that will allow for timely replenishment; Resolves differences between records and physical count of stock; Distributes items according to established or ad hoc requirements in computerized inventory management systems; Delivers supplies in a timely manner and ensures supplies and material delivered are in sterile and operational condition; Completes specialty cart preparation; Cleans assigned secondary areas in accordance with aseptic principles; and Receives supplies and material into the medical center's catchment area.
Driver's License Requirement: Incumbent must possess a current, valid state-issued driver's license for this position. (Please do not submit a copy of your license with your application package. You will be required to show your valid driver's license at the time of your interview.) Work Schedule: Full-Time, Monday - Friday, 7:30am - 4:00pm Telework: Not Available Virtual: This is not a virtual position. Position Description/PD#: Supply Technician/PD99834S
Requires practical knowledge of standard supply management procedures to perform work involving inventory and excess material management. Knowledge and ability to interpret policies, procedures, manuals, and regulations pertaining to supply/inventory management and federal acquisition systems. Requires knowledge related to stock rotation, hazard alerts and recal_ls to ensure outdated or otherwise compromised supplies and material are removed from usage area.
Requires knowledge of an automated inventory system to monitor issues and receipts in support of stock replenishment processes. Requires analytical ability to define and recognize problems, to collect applicable data and make recommendations for a solution. Knowledge of computers and Microsoft Office software programs such as Microsoft Word and Excel, sufficient to enter information and manage supply inventory.
Knowledge of the names of the different supply items including the trays and sets, and a general understanding of how items are used in case the user refers to them by another name. Requires knowledge of the availability, economic use, operation, and integration of aseptic procedures into the total health care program. Knowledge and general understanding of terminology and items related to specialty carts to ensure carts are built appropriately.
Knowledge of item descriptions. medical and surgical terminology established work methods, and recognized priorities of the clinical areas served. Requires effective communication concepts techniques and methods (oral and written) to communicate with a variety of individuals, including internal and external customers. Incumbent may be required to operate a motor vehicle.
This position is with Veterans Health Administration, Department of Veterans Affairs.
The posted pay range is $42552 – $55318/yr.
Applications close on 2026-10-02.
This position is open under the 'Fed Transition' hiring path.
Source: USAJOBS.gov — U.S. Federal Government
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