Job Description

The Surgical Supply Logistics Supervisor demonstrates supervisory skills and the ability to communicate effectively with leadership, peers, employees supervised and all Perioperative Services. Plans, organizes, and controls department activities related to surgical supplies, equipment, inventory control and charge capture. Responsible for planning and directing supply negotiations for both individual purchases and continuing contractual relationships based upon the best cost-value relationship for the organization. The Surgical Supply Logistics Supervisor is responsible for developing and implementing policies and procedures and monitoring all department purchases. Provides assistance to the Director in meeting operational and fiscal objectives as they relate to surgical consumable supply.

SHIFT AND SCHEDULE

Full Time, 7:30am-4:00pm

ESSENTIAL FUNCTIONS/PERFORMANCE EXPECTATIONS

• Facilitates value analysis and acts as a resource person for team leaders and physicians.
• Accountable for inventory availability, inventory levels, and the successful implementation of cost control measures
• Maintains an advanced knowledge of inventory operations and ensures proper inventory controls are in place.
• Responsible for scheduling and prioritizing the time, place, and sequence of actions to be taken on given workday including unusual problems or proposed deviation from guidelines, practices or precedent.
• Develops and implements policies and procedures for Materials Management Operating Room Support (MMORS) areas.
• Establishes goals and objectives for MMORS team.
• Recommends hiring, development, promotion, and discipline of staff.
• Manages the supply module within the Operating Room Information System and is proficient in the Materials Management Information System.
• Performs quality management functions to improve MMORS efficiencies.
• Assists in the preparation of monitoring annual department operations budget and exercises sound fiscal judgement helping to maintain departmental expenses within budgetary guidelines.

EDUCATION AND EXPERIENCE

• 5 or more years’ experience in warehousing and inventory control.
• A mental development equivalent to completion of a four-year college degree, including an ability to apply principles of logic and scientific thought to a wide range of intellectual problems.
• American Hospital Association Certified Materials Resource Professional (CMRP) certification preferred.

PHYSICAL REQUIREMENTS

To perform this job successfully, an individual must be able to perform each essential responsibility satisfactorily. Reasonable accommodations may be made to enable individuals with disabilities to perform the essential functions. The individual must be able to:

• Stand, walk, sit, stoop, reach, lift, see, speak and hear. Lifting is limited to 35 lbs. for clinical staff and to 50 lbs. for non-clinical staff. The individual must use an assisted-lift device or get another individual(s) to assist with the lift that is over these maximum limits.