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Salt Lake City, UT, USA
In-Office
Entry level
Edtech
The Role
Manages hospital supplies and equipment through ordering, receiving, inspection, storage, inventory control, restocking, delivery, shipping, and vendor issue resolution. Cleans and sanitizes patient-use equipment, maintains linen levels, documents transactions and charges, and ensures safety inspections, preventive maintenance, and calibrations are completed. The role requires warehouse, computer, communication, sanitation, and problem-solving skills but does not provide direct patient care.
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Overview

As a patient-focused organization, University of Utah Health exists to enhance the health and well-being of people through patient care, research and education. Success in this mission requires a culture of collaboration, excellence, leadership, and respect. University of Utah Health seeks staff that are committed to the values of compassion, collaboration, innovation, responsibility, integrity, quality and trust that are integral to our mission. EO/AA

This position is responsible for participating in and overseeing the ordering, receiving, inspecting, storing, issuing and shipping of equipment, materials and supplies for various departments. The incumbent is responsible for inventorying and restocking materials and patient care supplies including clean linen, crash cart equipment and intubation boxes. Additionally, the incumbent is responsible for cleaning patient use equipment and ensuring that safety inspections, preventive maintenance and calibrations are completed prior to scheduled expiration dates. This position is not responsible for providing care for patients.

Corporate Overview: The University of Utah is a Level 1 Trauma Center and is nationally ranked and recognized for our academic research, quality standards and overall patient experience. Our five hospitals and eleven clinics provide excellence in our comprehensive services, medical advancement, and overall patient outcomes.

ResponsibilitiesEssential Functions
  • Supports response to product recall notices.
  • Orders, receives and oversees the ordering and receipt of materials, equipment, stock and supplies for the organization.
  • Uses the department's computer system to maintain verification of all transactions.
  • Maintains a record of stock received and issued to departments.
  • Inspects and verifies that received stock meets specifications and that orders are complete.
  • Resolves order problems with vendors and departments, as necessary.
  • Stores articles by style, size, material, etc. according to departmental procedures.
  • Rotates supplies to ensure that items do not expire before use.
  • Delivers goods to the appropriate areas on a routine or STAT basis.
  • Maintains a clean, sanitary and orderly storeroom.
  • Performs various clerical duties such as data entry of requisitions and receipts and answering phones.
  • Answers staff questions regarding storeroom activities, as required, to ensure that quality service is delivered.
  • Documents patient charges for equipment use and specialty cart supplies.
  • Cleans and sanitizes patient use equipment using industry standard cleaning products and techniques.
  • Maintains acceptable scores for ATP surface testing for infection control.
  • Ensures that safety inspections, preventive maintenance and calibrations on equipment are completed prior to scheduled expiration dates.
  • Delivers clean linen to various hospital and clinic locations following a predetermined par level.
  • Performs other duties, as assigned.
  • May oversee the delivery or distribution of goods by filling requisitions and comparing nomenclature, stock numbers, etc.
  • May handle the packaging and shipping of packages.
  • May make decisions regarding the physical layout of the storeroom.
  • May assist in the counting, sorting and folding of linen.
Knowledge / Skills / Abilities
  • Demonstrated potential ability to perform the essential functions as outlined above.
  • Demonstrated understanding of equipment processing sanitation techniques.
  • Demonstrated human relations and effective communications skills.
  • Demonstrated knowledge of standard warehousing.
  • Demonstrated computer literacy, mathematical and problem solving skills.
QualificationsRequired
  • Six (6) months of customer service, shipping and receiving or stock room experience, or the equivalency.
Qualifications (Preferred)Preferred
  • Valid, current Utah driver's license with proof of insurability.
  • Completion of a medical terminology course within one (1) year of employment.
  • Previous experience in storeroom supervision and employee leadership.
Working Conditions and Physical Demands

Employee must be able to meet the following requirements with or without an accommodation.

  • This position involves intermediate work that may exert up to 50 pounds and may consistently require lifting, carrying, pushing, pulling or otherwise moving objects while providing assistance to patients. The incumbent may face exposure to potentially dangerous contaminated bodily fluids, blood and blood products, chemotherapy solutions and other contaminants as part of the daily hazards of the job.
Physical RequirementsCarrying, Climbing, Color Determination, Crawling, Far Vision, Lifting, Listening, Manual Dexterity, Near Vision, Pulling and/or Pushing, Reaching, Sitting, Speaking, Standing, Stooping and Crouching, Tasting or Smelling, Walking

Skills Required

  • Six months of customer service, shipping and receiving, or stock room experience, or equivalent experience
  • Ability to perform equipment processing sanitation techniques
  • Human relations and effective communication skills
  • Knowledge of standard warehousing
  • Computer literacy, mathematical, and problem-solving skills
  • Valid current Utah driver's license with proof of insurability
  • Completion of a medical terminology course within one year of employment
  • Previous storeroom supervision and employee leadership experience

University of Utah Compensation & Benefits Highlights

The following summarizes recurring compensation and benefits themes identified from responses generated by popular LLMs to common candidate questions about University of Utah and has not been reviewed or approved by University of Utah.

  • Retirement Support — Employer-funded retirement contributions on both the academic campus and U of U Health are notably strong, with automatic contributions and additional voluntary savings options. This emphasis makes long-term financial benefits a distinctive part of the total compensation offering.
  • Healthcare Strength — Multiple medical plan choices, robust mental-health support through the Employee Assistance Program, and wellness programs create a comprehensive health offering. Network options and wellness incentives further enhance coverage quality.
  • Parental & Family Support — Paid parental leave policies provide options for fully paid periods or extended partial-pay leave for staff, with parallel provisions at U of U Health. Separate frameworks for faculty include modified duties and leave arrangements during family transitions.

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The Company
HQ: Salt Lake City, Utah
12,233 Employees
Year Founded: 1850

What We Do

The University of Utah, located in Salt Lake City in the foothills of the Wasatch Mountains, is the flagship institution of higher learning in Utah. Founded in 1850, it serves over 31,000 students from across the U.S. and the world. With over 72 major subjects at the undergraduate level and more than 90 major fields of study at the graduate level, including law and medicine, the university prepares students to live and compete in the global workplace. Known for its proximity to seven world-class ski resorts within 40 minutes of campus, the U encourages an active, holistic lifestyle, innovation and collaborative thinking to engage students, faculty and business leaders. The University of Utah became a member of the PAC-12 conference in July 2011. Technology and Commercialization The University of Utah is tops in the country for creating start-up companies from university research, according to a ranking by the Association of University Technology Managers (AUTM). See http://unews.utah.edu/news_releases/u-of-utah-no-1-for-startups for more information. Forbes magazine’s recent ranking of the “Best States for Business” pointed to “an educated labor force” as a big reason Utah came in at number one. The U supplies many of the employees for companies that keep expanding their operations in Utah, such as Goldman Sachs, Adobe, Omniture, Oracle, Ebay and many others. http://pac12info.utah.edu/commercialization-of-innovation/ Healthcare University of Utah Health Care recently ranked first in the nation in a prestigious national study. The University Health System Consortium’s 2010 Quality and Accountability Study compared 98 of the nation’s top academic medical centers and ranked them based on core quality measures, patient safety indicators, mortality rates, re-admission rates, and patient satisfaction scores. See more about University of Utah Health Care at http://healthcare.utah.edu/index.php

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