Supply Technician

Summary

These positions are located in the Expendable Inventory Management areas of the Supply Chain Management Service at the Jamaica Plain and West Roxbury, Massachusetts Veteran Affairs Health Care System (VA HCS) and supported catchment area.

These positions are full time at 40 hours per week.

Duties

This is an OPEN CONTINUOUS ANNOUNCEMENT and will remain open until April 25, 2024. The initial cut-off date for referral of eligible applications will be February 8, 2024. After this date, qualified applicants will be considered and referred as vacancies become available. Eligible applications received after the initial cut-off date will be referred as additional vacancies occur on an as-needed basis until positions are filled.

The Supply Technician 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.

Work Schedule: Full-Time, Monday - Friday, 7:00AM - 3:30PM or 1:00pm - 9:30PM; May involve nights and weekends as assigned.
Compressed/Flexible: Not Available
Telework: This is not a virtual position
Virtual: This is not a virtual position.
Position Description/PD#: Supply Technician (Medical EX) / PD99832
Relocation/Recruitment Incentives: Not Authorized
Financial Disclosure Report: Not required

Notifications:

• These positions are in the Competitive Service.
• Interchange Agreements with Other Merit System: Employees who occupy medical or medical-related positions and were appointed under 38 U.S.C. 4701(1) or (3) [formerly 38 U.S.C. 4104 (1) and (3)] must be serving in a full-time position without time limit and have served continuously for at least one year in this other merit system to be eligible to convert to the Title 5 System. Some exceptions to this rule may apply if you have previously acquired tenure under a Title 5 appointment.
• Current and former Federal employees must submit copies of their most recent SF-50, (Notice of Personnel Action). The SF-50 must identify the position title, series, grade, step, tenure and type of service (Competitive or Excepted). In some cases, more than one SF-50 may be required to show a higher grade previously held.
• These positions are a NAGE Bargaining Unit.
• These positions are covered by locality-based comparability pay.
• Incomplete applications will not be considered.

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