Pharmacy Technician

About the Role

Walmart Central Fill Pharmacy is a specialized pharmacy focusing on processing and dispensing prescriptions for multiple retail locations within a region. It utilizes automation for fast and accurate prescription filling, enabling retail pharmacies to dedicate more time to patient care. This role supports operations at the Central Fill Pharmacy in Plainfield, IN.

Key Responsibilities

• Maintains and tracks medication inventory by sorting, placing, and storing freight; restocking and replenishing medication; reporting low stock levels; ensuring stock rotation on a first-in, first-out basis; performing inventory cycle counts; assisting with physical counts for inventories; creating reports using inventory information systems; and monitoring prescription inventory for expired pharmaceuticals.
• Supports facility operations by reporting and managing paperwork to ensure productivity and pharmaceutical integrity, including entering and modifying pharmaceutical data, processing and submitting paperwork, creating and maintaining documentation, identifying and resolving discrepancies, and preparing reports of pharmacy activities and inventory.
• Promotes the pharmacy's professional reputation and delivers pharmacy products and services in accordance with laws and policies by assisting the pharmacist in prescription fulfillment, stocking and rotating merchandise, handling claims and returns, completing and securing paperwork, and maintaining a safe and clean work environment.
• Ensures fulfillment of pharmacy prescriptions under the supervision of a pharmacist in an automated central fill pharmacy to maintain workflow and meet daily production and quality goals by using a scanner to identify and select pharmaceutical products, verifying product size and strength, entering expiration dates and lot numbers, labeling prescriptions, weighing medication for accuracy, counting or pouring medication, preparing and distributing medications, and replenishing automated counting machines.
• Maintains quality, accuracy, and integrity of inventory by utilizing automated inventory control scanners and systems, ensuring adherence to inventory control procedures, managing pill cell information, troubleshooting pill cell performance, identifying and discarding hazardous waste, and processing recalled and expired pharmaceuticals.
• Maintains pharmacy systems and technology by preparing informational records and reports, monitoring inventory levels and expiration dates, calibrating machines, applying settings to pill or capsule specifications, ensuring medications are continuously replenished, and troubleshooting pill cell issues.
• Complies with company policies, procedures, and standards of ethics and integrity.
• Completes work assignments and priorities by using policies, data, and resources, collaborating with stakeholders, identifying priorities and deadlines, communicating progress, recommending improvement opportunities, and adapting to change, difficulties, and feedback.

Requirements & Tech Stack

• Meets state requirements to work as a Pharmacy Technician, including minimum age and an active/valid Pharmacy Technician license by the State of Indiana.
• Experience with inventory management systems.
• Experience with automated pharmacy systems and technology.
• Proficiency in using scanners.
• Familiarity with pharmaceutical data entry.
• Ability to maintain a safe and clean work environment.

Shifts & Compensation

• 1st Shift: 5:45a - 4:15p
• 2nd Shift: 4:00p - 2:30a
• Salary: $20.50 per hour
• 2nd Shift Differential: An additional $2.00 per hour

Qualifications

• Meets state requirements to work as a Pharmacy Technician.
• Preferred: Pharmacy Technician Career Diploma through Live Better U and Penn Foster.

Location

• 2501 PERRY RD, PLAINFIELD, IN 46168-7418, United States of America