Pharmacy Technician - Supply

Fort Defiance
Fort Defiance, AZ 86504, USA

Closing Date: October 23, 2026 @ 4:00 P.M. (MST)

Salary Range: $32.25 - $40.31/hour

** APPLICANT MUST HAVE A VALID, UNRESTRICTED INSURABLE DRIVERS LICENSE**

** RESUMES AND REFERENCES ARE REQUIRED**

ESSENTIAL DUTIES, FUNCTIONS AND RESPONSIBILITIES

• Primary duties consist of pharmaceutical and supply order initiations, receiving shipments of goods, assuring compliance with storage requirements, inventory control through perpetual analysis, fund control, liaison with company representatives and managerial staff. Specifically:
• Has operational responsibility for all ongoing inventories, including annual inventory of drug products and pharmaceutical supplies and their procurement. Cost effective turnover must be consistently identified and maintained. As a result, must possess a thorough knowledge and understanding of procurement sources (i.e., prime vendor, government excess, posted stock, and local), IHS manual and associated circular procedures, and hospital procurement policies. Displays a thorough understanding of policies and procedures, utilize basic accounting and budgetary skills to assure pharmaceuticals and supplies are maintained in the most cost-effective manner.
• Maintain accountability of daily purchases and coordinates receipt, assures consistent delivery schedules are employed and handled in a manner mutually beneficial to the Pharmacy Department. Appropriately disperses stock into designated storage areas. Must be familiar with catalog utilizations, updated bulletin applicability, and prime vendor. Utilize an excellent working knowledge of all US Pharmacopoeia, CMS, accreditation bodies and HIS manual storage requirements, determines well-defined storage locations and ensures storage conforms to the IHS and OSHA standards.
• Maintain an elaborate system of retrieval. Files must be routinely purged to avoid accumulation of obsolete material. Serves as the first line between company representatives and pharmacy managers. As a result, the managers rely heavily on the ability to effectively interpret screen and transmit accounting and availability data.
• Utilizes the prime vendor to order FSS items. This involves direct contact with the prime vendor via computer modem and placement and receipt of drug order after, and assessment of the various contracts available and selection of the most cost-effective item. Review drug orders on computer screen/printed copy, verifying amount to be ordered and transmitting the order to the prime vendor.
  
  If an item is unavailable, decide whether or not to order an equivalent generic substitute, different strength, bottle size, or wait and reorder the next day. Using the prime vendor database, determine the cost differential to purchase from a different manufacturer, as well as the expected due-in date of the unavailable product at the prime vendor.
• If prime vendor is not available or alternative method of pharmaceutical procurement is determined and selected, use that system to order and track items needed utilizing appropriate substitutions.
• Determines, establishes, and modifies, as necessary, appropriate ordering intervals, inventory levels, most efficient/effective ordering quantities, sources of supply, etc., based on current financial conditions in pharmacy, seasonal variations in drug usage, changing patterns of medical practice, delivery time requirements, urgency of medical need, alternative sources of availability, etc.
• Reviews drug inventory levels and usage rates and utilizes this information to make recommendations for which items are feasible to maintain periodic automatic replenishment (PAR). Establishes stock levels based on analysis of past usage rates, various medical considerations, knowledge of inventory management system, and procurement operations and requirements.
• Processes outdated, unusable, and excess inventory for return to respective manufacturers for replacement of usable formulary items or credit. This is accomplished on a monthly basis involving several different manufacturers and requires follow-up review to assure receipt of merchandise, etc., requested. Assists in recalls of drugs, as required, to checking applicable lots and informing appropriate personnel.
• Point of contact and subject matter expert for the organization on the Drug Supply Chain Security Act (DSCSA). Maintains requirements as determined for DSCSA.
• Review P&T Committee minutes and determines stock requirements and orders appropriately.
• Assists…