Pharmacy Technician- Plainfield

Job Description

This role supports a highly automated central fill pharmacy that packages and distributes medications to retail pharmacies across multiple states. As a Pharmacy Technician, you will manually fill prescriptions, replenish medications for automated dispensing stations, package medications, stock completed packages, and perform related tasks to ensure accurate, safe, and timely prescription fulfillment in a fast-paced production environment.

This role supports a highly automated central fill pharmacy that packages and distributes medications to retail pharmacies across multiple states. As a Pharmacy Technician, you will manually fill prescriptions, replenish medications for automated dispensing stations, package medications, stock completed packages, and perform related tasks to ensure accurate, safe, and timely prescription fulfillment in a fast-paced production environment.

This role supports a highly automated central fill pharmacy that packages and distributes medications to retail pharmacies across multiple states. As a Pharmacy Technician, you will manually fill prescriptions, replenish medications for automated dispensing stations, package medications, stock completed packages, and perform related tasks to ensure accurate, safe, and timely prescription fulfillment in a fast-paced production environment.

• Maintain pharmacy systems and technology, including inventory systems and automated medication counting machines, by preparing accurate records and reports to ensure compliance with policies and regulations.
• Monitor inventory levels and expiration dates for pharmaceuticals, calibrate machines, and apply correct settings to pill and capsule specifications to minimize breakage.
• Ensure medications are continuously replenished by using computers and scanners, and troubleshoot pill cell issues such as jamming throughout production.
• Maintain and track medication inventory by sorting, placing, and storing freight in appropriate locations, restocking and replenishing medications, and reporting low stock levels.
• Rotate stock on a first-in, first-out basis to support shrinkage control, perform inventory cycle counts, assist with physical inventory counts, and create reports using inventory information systems.
• Monitor prescription inventory for expired pharmaceuticals and take appropriate action to remove or process them according to procedures.
• Support the facility with reporting and paperwork by entering and modifying pharmaceutical data in systems and on forms, processing and submitting paperwork, and creating and maintaining documentation such as files, manuals, forms, records, and supplies.
• Prepare reports of pharmacy activities and inventory, including state board mandated testing of counting devices, and identify and resolve discrepancies in records or files.
• Inform leadership about incorrect or inefficient processes and improper service procedures, and help implement improvements to maintain productivity and pharmaceutical integrity.
• Ensure accurate fulfillment of pharmacy prescriptions in an automated central fill environment to maintain continuous workflow and meet daily production and quality goals.
• Use scanners to identify and select the correct pharmaceutical product and quantity for prescription orders, verifying product size, strength, and display for pack and quantity before processing.
• Enter expiration dates and lot numbers, label prescriptions, weigh medications to confirm accurate quantities, and count or pour medications for prescription orders.
• Prepare packages and distribute medications in a fast-paced production environment, while replenishing automated counting machines to sustain workflow.
• Maintain the quality, accuracy, and integrity of pharmaceutical and supply inventory by using automated inventory control scanners and systems to track delivery and stocking activities.
• Ensure adherence to documented inventory control procedures, including product strategies and product description discrepancy resolution.
• Audit and test pill cell performance according to prescribed schedules and procedures, manage pill cell information databases, and troubleshoot pill cell performance issues.
• Identify and properly discard hazardous waste, process recalled and expired pharmaceuticals, and dispose of or arrange return of outdated stock for credit.
• Collaborate effectively with pharmacists, pharmacy technicians, shipping and receiving coordinators, and other…