Central Fill Inventory Technician - 8991 - Pharmacy Central Fill Pittsburgh - RX Support

Job Summary

Are you interested in working for an organization dedicated to patient care, innovation, and improving people’s everyday lives and well-being? Are you interested in working “behind the scenes” in a pharmacy organization? If so, you’re in the right place!

As a Pharmacy Inventory Technician, you’ll be a key part of our collaborative team. You’ll bring your skills and expertise to reviewing, monitoring and maintaining the Central Fill inventory and mentoring new employees upon their being hired.

Job Description

• Experience Required: 0 to 6 months
• Experience Desired: Experience handling large volumes of stocks and consumables in a time bound process
• Education Desired: High school diploma or equivalent
• Lifting Requirement: Up to 50 pounds
• Age Requirement: At least 18 years of age

Job Responsibility

• Monitor Central Fill medications for ordering compliance in order to ensure Central Fill is purchasing preferred inventory from wholesalers.
• Process and sign CSOS orders.
• Maintain production rates and meet quality expectations as determined by leadership.
• Train and mentor new team members upon hire.
• Perform duties of a central fill technician once training is completed and when assigned by Central Fill leadership.
• Maintain a neat and clean work environment in order to ensure company and government requirements are met.
• Recognize, address and escalate system issues.
• Follow all company, state and federal policies, laws and regulations, including HIPAA.
• Assist with Central Fill and Specialty Physical Inventory.
• Generate daily pharmacy inventory orders.
• Ensure order acknowledgement of all daily pharmacy orders.
• Receive and check in daily drug orders.
• Break down drug order and assign product to proper stock location.
• Rotate inventory stock in order to ensure proper stock cycling.
• Process and file inventory paperwork and manifests.
• Check inventory shelves monthly to remove outdated product according to policy.
• Process and ship monthly expired products to contracted third party vendor.
• Identify drug shortages and work with procurement team to determine replacement products or to estimate the length of the shortage.

Central Pharmacy Service Centers: Founded in 1931, Giant Eagle, Inc. has grown to be the number one supermarket retailer in the region with more than 410 stores throughout western Pennsylvania, north central Ohio, northern West Virginia, Maryland and Indiana. Giant Eagle Pharmacy meets a variety of customer needs, from filling prescriptions and administering immunizations to conducting free health screenings and providing patient education serving over 1.8 million patients and dispensing roughly 25 million prescriptions annually. Giant Eagle Pharmacy operates two Central Pharmacy Service Centers that support over 200 retail pharmacy locations. One located in Freedom, PA and the other in Columbus, OH. These are behind-the-scenes centers where Team Members perform a variety of duties including prescription data entry, interacting with physician offices and patient outreach. Giant Eagle Pharmacy’s Central Fill facility is also located in Freedom, PA. The Central Fill facility is a closed-door pharmacy operation in a fast-paced warehouse environment.