1st Shift Fill Technician

About The Company

Albertsons Companies is at the forefront of the revolution in retail. With a fixation on raising the bar with innovation and building belonging through our culture, our team is rallying our company around a unique purpose: to create joy around each table and inspire a healthier tomorrow for every community.

Building the future of food and well-being starts with you. Join our team and bring your best self to the table.

The Pharmacy Technician at the Central Fulfillment Center is responsible for working in a closed‑door, fast‑paced pharmacy facility on a production line, filling prescriptions under the direct supervision of a pharmacist. They use prescription filling automation technologies and semi‑manual/manual workstations to ensure accuracy and completeness of orders, and maintain a continuous and consistent workflow to meet team goals. The position is based in Ridgefield, WA.

The shift arrangement is typically a 40‑hour workweek with occasional overtime. Technicians work on 1st shift from 6:30 AM to 3:00 PM or on 2nd shift from 2:30 PM to 11:00 PM.

• Follow and promote proper Pharmacy, general safety, and security procedures and processes of the company.
• Use scanning and counting technologies to identify and select appropriate pharmaceutical products and quantities for filling prescription orders.
• Ensuring medication counting devices are continuously replenished.
• Assist with maintaining the pharmacy system and technologies that facilitate proper counting, conveyance, packaging, and shipping of prescriptions.
• Monitor inventory and supply levels at the responsible stations, calibrate machines, troubleshoot jams and blockages within conveyance, counting, and packaging machines, escalating technical issues, and work as a team to reach team goals.
• Monitor and maintain uptime of automated counting, collating, packaging, and sorting devices, ensuring continuous operation through basic troubleshooting of routine errors.
• Create and maintain documentation as requested.
• Manually fill prescriptions as needed.
• Verify attributes of the product such as size, strength, quantity, etc., before processing orders; enter or scan expiration date and lot numbers.
• Ensure labels on prescriptions are correct.
• Prepare packages, sort, and manifest prescription orders if needed.
• Stock and rotate merchandise and supplies to limit shrinkage if needed.
• Assist Inventory Technicians as requested; participate in Inventory Audits as needed.
• Other duties as assigned concurrent with all applicable laws and regulations.

• Commitment to contributing to a culture of safety, looking out for yourself and others.
• Commitment to achieving optimal productivity and efficiency and self‑motivation, energy, and detail orientation.
• Highly organized, flexible, adaptable subject matter expert who can prioritize.
• Works well with others and can motivate people you work with; able to be a role model and lead by example.
• Good communication skills both written and verbal.
• Professional image with proper grooming.
• Willingness to work the given schedule below:
  • Monday, Tuesday, Wednesday, Sunday (6:30 AM – 3:00 PM)
  • Saturday (8:30 AM – 4:30 PM)

• Pharmacy Technician License in Washington.
• Ability to preserve confidentiality of patient information.

• A national Pharmacy Technician Certification.

• Central Fulfillment Pharmacy Technician experience.
• Prefer to work in a closed‑door environment (no customer interaction, phone work).
• Good computer and math skills.

• Willing and able to stand/walk at least 8 hours.
• Willing and able to perform tasks which include pushing, pulling, grasping, bending, stooping, rotating, reaching, and lifting/carrying up to 40 pounds.
• Visual focus such as counting and observing is required consistently.
• Performing repetitive tasks up to 100 % of the time.

Our 290,000 associates have a passion for great service and building lasting relationships with our customers. Through a company wide focus on innovation, we continually enhance our digital and product offerings, making it easy for customers to get what they need, wherever they are.

Albertsons is an Equal Opportunity Employer and does not discriminate on the basis of race, gender, ethnicity, religion, national origin, age, disability, veteran status, gender identity or expression, sexual orientation, or on any other basis prohibited by law. Consistent with applicable state and local law, the Company will consider qualified applicants with arrest and conviction records. We endeavor to make this site accessible to all users.

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