1st Shift Quality Control Pharmacy Technician - Health and Wellness Non-Store Operations Central Fill Pharmacy (CPhT Required)

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About the Team

Walmart Central Fill Pharmacy is a specialized type of pharmacy that focuses on processing and dispensing of prescriptions for multiple retail pharmacy locations within a region. Unlike a traditional pharmacy, Central Fill is full of automation allowing prescriptions to be filled fast and accurately. But the best part of Central Fill pharmacy is taking care of our patients in the community. While we are not patient facing, our job provides retail pharmacies the ability to spend much deserved time providing clinical services and education to the communities they serve.

Quality Control Pharmacy Technician - Health and Wellness Non-Store Operations Central Fill Pharmacy

• Maintains and demonstrates knowledge of automated equipment functions (for example, operations, calibration, maintenance, troubleshooting) in the pharmacy; and sustaining a calibration program for instruments and equipment in the pharmacy.

• Assists in the identification and correction of opportunities to improve processes; conducting statistical process control and root cause analysis; and participating in projects that promote continuous improvement methodologies.

• Maintains medication quality control by ensuring expiration dates are monitored; ensuring medications are in proper rotation; performing daily inspections and physical checks on medications and other pharmacy items.

• Maintains quality standards, automation efficiency, and safety in the pharmacy by monitoring, testing, recording, and reacting on data pertaining to products/production and processes/quality; producing accurate results; and anticipating problems or conflicts.

• Maintains pharmacy systems and technology (for example, inventory systems, automated medication counting machines) by preparing informational and related records and reports to ensure data accuracy and system compliance with company policies and regulations; monitoring inventory levels for medications; calibrating machines; applying settings to pill or capsule specifications to minimize breakage; ensuring medications are continuously replenished by utilizing the computer and/or scanner screen; and troubleshooting pill cell issues (for example, jamming) throughout production.

• Maintains quality, accuracy, and integrity of inventory (for example, medications, supplies) by utilizing automated inventory control scanner and system to track and ensure the timely and appropriate delivery and stocking of medications and supplies; ensuring adherence to and documentation of inventory control procedures (for example, product strategies, product description discrepancies); auditing and testing pill cell performance according to prescribed schedules and procedures; managing pill cell information database; troubleshooting issues with pill cell performance; identifying and properly discarding hazardous waste; processing recalled and expired pharmaceuticals; and disposing or processing returns of outdated stock for credit.

• Maintains and tracks medication inventory by sorting, placing, and storing freight in appropriate locations; restocking and replenishing medications inappropriate locations; reporting low stock levels; ensuring stock rotation on a first-in, first-out basis to assist in shrinkage control; performing inventory cycle counts; assisting with physical counts for inventories.

• Supports facility with reporting to ensure productivity and pharmaceutical integrity by entering and modifying pharmaceutical data on systems and forms; processing and submitting paperwork; creating and maintaining documentation (for example, files, manuals, forms, records, supplies