Job Description

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Excellence, Teamwork, Leadership, and Innovation. These values define UConn Health. We are looking for team members that share these same values. Our top-rated organization is looking to add a Supply Coordinator to our growing operating room team. If you have a background in this field, as well as a passion for customer and patient experience, we want to hear from you.

UConn Health is looking for a Supply Coordinator with experience in the operating room/surgical field to assist with purchasing, receiving, and maintaining equipment and supplies for the operating room unit.

SUPERVISION RECEIVED:

Works under the general supervision of an employee of higher rank.

SUPERVISION EXERCISED:

May lead lower-level employees as assigned

EXAMPLES OF DUTIES:

Accountable for independently performing a full range of tasks in ordering equipment and supplies.
Coordinates the requisitioning and receiving of supplies including special orders for a department or unit; may assist in the development/implementation of supply/equipment standards; may evaluate new supplies/equipment; may participate in the development and implementation of systems designed to study placement of supplies and equipment; prepares purchase requisitions for procurement of all supplies and materials; acts as liaison between department and; follows up and places orders with vendors/sales consultants; processes incoming orders and assures proper charges; resolves vendor discrepancies; may process invoices and statements for payment; researches manufacturers prices and catalog numbers; ensures sufficient stock levels of supplies/instruments; may monitor the need for and schedule preventative maintenance of equipment; serves as resource person to others on supplies/equipment; prepares reports on usage and materials; assists in the preparation of supplies for special clinical programs (i.e., NRBDE); may serve on committees; performs related duties as required.

MINIMUM QUALIFICATIONS REQUIRED

KNOWLEDGE, SKILL, AND ABILITY:

Knowledge of purchasing procedures and related materials/supplies; knowledge of sterilization procedures; knowledge of infection control and safety; oral and written communication skills; interpersonal skills; record keeping skills; ability to work under pressure deadlines.

EDUCATION AND TRAINING:

General Experience:

Four (4) years of experience working in the operating room/surgical field including the ordering of appropriate supplies/equipment.

GENERAL EXPERIENCE SUBSTITUTION:

College training

may substitute for General Experience based on fifteen (15) semester hours equaling one-half (1/2) year of experience to a maximum of two (2) years.

SCHEDULE

: Full time, 40 hours per week, Monday - Friday, 9:30 am to 6:00 pm, schedule includes holidays as assigned, 30-minute unpaid meal break.

Why UConn Health

UConn Health is a vibrant, integrated academic medical center that is entering an era of unprecedented growth in all three areas of its mission: academics, research, and clinical care. A commitment to human health and well-being has been of utmost importance to UConn Health since the founding of the University of Connecticut schools of Medicine and Dental Medicine in 1961. Based on a strong foundation of groundbreaking research, first-rate education, and quality clinical care, we have expanded our medical missions over the decades. In just over 50 years, UConn Health has evolved to encompass more research endeavors, to provide more ways to access our superior care, and to innovate both practical medicine and our methods of educating the practitioners of tomorrow.