Central Service Technician (Per Diem)

We are seeking a motivated and detail-oriented Central Service Technician I to support the critical supply needs of the Surgical Services inpatient and outpatient areas. In this role, you will ensure clinical staff have the necessary procedural supplies to provide exceptional patient care.

Key responsibilities include proactively managing and distributing medical supplies, updating inventory levels and par settings in supply management software, and placing replenishment orders.

You will also reconcile deliveries, transport supplies across facilities, and assist with inventory optimization to reduce costs.

Additionally, you will pick supplies for procedure case carts and provide essential support for back-ordered and on-order items.

This role is vital to ensuring operational efficiency and delivering seamless support to UCLA Health's world-class clinical teams.

Required:

• Ability to push and pull
  up to 150 pounds, and lift up to 50 pounds.
• Willingness to comply
  with healthcare regulations for infection control, including masking.
• Self-starter with
  effective time management and a high degree of accuracy and attention to
  detail.
• Ability to maintain a
  positive attitude and work as a team in a demanding, fast-paced
  environment.
• Flexibility to changes
  in workload, assignments, and schedules across different shifts and
  weekends.
• Organized to stay
  current in required HR online competency classes on policy and safety
  between tasks.
• Consistently and
  proactively maintain a safe, clean working environment and report unsafe
  acts or conditions.
• A high proficiency in
  English to articulate issues, concerns, and responses verbally and
  electronically.
• Ability to work in a
  fast-paced environment with clinical interruptions for supply requests.
• Actively participates in
  Quality Management and PIE programs.; adheres to Materials Management and
  UCLA policies/procedures.
• Ability to attend all
  workshops, classes, drills, etc as requested.
• CA Driver's License.

Preferred:

• Previous hospital,
  purchasing, accounting, inventory stocking / tracking experience.
• Experience with
  electronic ordering using a handheld.
• Experience managing
  orders and optimizing inventory pars with Lawson, WaveMark or any ERP.