Stores Assistant

Overview

• Under general supervision this position is responsible for the maintenance of a clinic’s storeroom which includes but is not limited to, stocking of operational materials and supplies, inventory control and records, purchasing, and related duties as required.
• Plans and performs work that involves ordering, receiving, inspecting, returning, unloading, shelving, packing, labeling, pricing, delivering, and maintaining a perpetual inventory of forms, office supplies, and various types of equipment
• Determine if inventory quantities are sufficient for needs, ordering more materials when necessary
• Rotates stock and arranges for disposal of surpluses
• Keeps records to maintain inventory control, cost containment and to assure proper stock levels
• Perform buying duties when necessary
• Contact suppliers in order to schedule or expedite deliveries and to resolve shortages, missed or late deliveries, and other problems
• Track the status of requisitions, contracts, and orders
• Check shipments when they arrive to ensure that orders have been filled correctly and that goods meet specifications
• Locate suppliers, using sources such as catalogues and the internet, and interview them to gather information about products to be ordered
• The Storekeeper is proactive in communication to originator of request when products are delayed of not available
• Storekeeper provides alternative for products that are not available or temporary out of stock
• Perform other duties and tasks assigned by the Head of Department
• Any Graduation degree