Blood Storage & Distribution Technician

Blood Storage & Distribution Technician# American Red Cross## Blood Storage & Distribution Technician Apply:
St Paul, MN:
Full time:
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*** By joining the American Red Cross  you will touch millions of lives every year and experience the greatness of the human spirit at its best.  Are you ready to be part of  the world's largest humanitarian network?***## #
** Join us—Where your Career is a Force for Good!
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* Job Description:

**** Job Description**#
** Blood Storage & Distribution Technician
***** WHY CHOOSE US?
*** Joining The American Red Cross is like nothing else – it’s as much something you feel as something you do. You become a vital part of the world’s largest humanitarian network. Joining a team of welcoming individuals who are exceptional, yet unassuming. Diverse, yet uncompromising in unity. You grow your career within a movement that matters, where success is measured in people helped, communities made whole, and individuals equipped to never stop changing lives and situations for the better.  

When you choose to be a force for good, you’ll have mentors who empower your growth along a purposeful career path. You align your life’s work with an ongoing mission that’s bigger than all of us. As you care for others, you’re cared for with competitive compensation and benefits. You join a community that respects who you are away from work as much as what you do while at work.

*** WHAT YOU NEED TO KNOW:
*** You will be responsible for receiving, processing, packing and shipping blood products/samples for hospital orders. You will triage the order based on date and time needed, select and carefully pack life-saving blood products with the correct temperature regulating product to ensure safe transport.  You will communicate with hospital clients, volunteers, and vendors, and maintain product records to preserve traceability.
As a Red Cross Team member, you will take care of your team members – show up for every shift and give 100% while you’re there. Interact in a positive, proactive, and customer-focused manner with both internal and external customers, demonstrating care and compassion at all times.

*** WHERE YOUR CAREER IS A FORCE FOR GOOD:**
* *** Key Responsibilities
**** Ensure products/samples are suitable for release for distribution, while meeting production goals.
* Perform good inventory management practices throughout the manufacturing and shipping process
* Prioritize workload to meet production and customer requirements.
* Perform data entry associated with further manufacturing, labeling, storage, ordering, and shipping; maintain and review accurate physical and electronic manufacturing records
* Analyze and make decisions based on visual inspection and information provided from other departments to meet time requirements and quality standards.
* Identify and quarantine products/samples that don’t meet quality requirements, and perform disposition of unacceptable product
* May make hospital deliveries as assigned  
* The aforementioned responsibilities of the position describe the general nature and level of work and are not an exhaustive list.
* *** Pay Information***: *$22.00 per hour, plus any applicable shift differentials ($2.25-$5.00 more hour for this shift depending on the day of the week)
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* Schedule:

** Full time, 4 x10 hour days (8:30pm to 7:00 am);
Friday
- Monday (week starts Friday at 8:30 pm, week ends Tuesday morning at 7:00 am)
* *** Training:
** Required Training is the first 4 weeks and will be Monday
- Friday, 8:00 am - 4:30 pm. Full attendance is mandatory.
**** WHAT YOU NEED TO SUCCEED:
**** High School diploma or equivalent
* Two years’ experience in a regulatory,…