Certified Pharmacy Technician

About the Role

Walmart Central Fill Pharmacy processes and dispenses prescriptions for multiple retail pharmacy locations. It utilizes automation for fast and accurate prescription filling, enabling retail pharmacies to focus on clinical services and patient education. This role supports operations at the new Central Fill Pharmacy in Republic, MO.

• Starting Pay: $24.00/hr
• Shift Differential: $2.00/hr for 2nd shift

Schedule/Availability

• 4-day workweek consisting of four 10-hour shifts.
• Sunday availability is required.
• 1st Shift: 6:00 AM – 4:00 PM (availability required between 5:00 AM – 5:00 PM)
• 2nd Shift: 4:00 PM – 2:00 AM (availability required between 3:00 PM – 3:00 AM)
• Schedules are assigned based on business and production needs and may vary.

Key Responsibilities

• Maintain and track medication inventory by sorting, placing, and storing freight, restocking, replenishing, reporting low stock, ensuring first-in, first-out stock rotation, performing cycle counts, assisting with physical counts, creating reports using inventory information systems, and monitoring for expired pharmaceuticals.
• Support facility operations by reporting and completing paperwork, entering and modifying pharmaceutical data, processing and submitting paperwork, creating and maintaining documentation (files, manuals, forms, records, supplies, communications), identifying and resolving discrepancies, and preparing reports of pharmacy activities and inventory.
• Promote the pharmacy's professional reputation and deliver pharmacy products and services according to laws and policies.
• Assist pharmacists in the prescription fulfillment process, stocking and rotating merchandise, handling claims and returns, completing and securing paperwork, and maintaining a safe and clean work environment.
• Ensure fulfillment of pharmacy prescriptions under pharmacist supervision in an automated central fill pharmacy to meet daily production and quality goals.
• Use a scanner to identify and select pharmaceutical product and quantity for prescription orders, verify product size and strength, verify display for pack and quantity, enter expiration date and lot numbers, label prescriptions, weigh medication, count or pour medication, prepare and distribute medications, and replenish automated counting machines.
• Maintain quality, accuracy, and integrity of inventory using automated inventory control scanner and system.
• Ensure adherence to and documentation of inventory control procedures, audit and test pill cell performance, manage pill cell information database, troubleshoot pill cell performance issues, and identify and properly discard hazardous waste.
• Process recalled and expired pharmaceuticals and dispose of or process return of outdated stock for credit.
• Maintain pharmacy systems and technology, including inventory systems and automated medication counting machines, by preparing records and reports for data accuracy and system compliance.
• Monitor inventory levels and expiration dates, calibrate machines, apply settings to pill or capsule specifications, ensure continuous medication replenishment, and troubleshoot pill cell jamming during production.
• Comply with company policies, procedures, and standards of ethics and integrity.
• Complete work assignments by using policies, data, and resources, collaborating with others, identifying priorities, communicating progress, determining improvement opportunities, and adapting to change and feedback.
• Move, lift, carry, and place merchandise and supplies weighing up to 50 pounds without assistance.

Requirements & Tech Stack

• State Requirements to work as a Pharmacy Technician (minimum age, qualification, registration, certification, and/or licensure as required by the State Board of Pharmacy).
• Active/valid national certification certificate issued by PTCB (PTCE) or NHA (ExCPT).
• Pharmacy Technician Career Diploma through Live Better U and Penn Foster (Preferred).

Qualifications

• Meets state requirements to work as a Pharmacy Technician.
• Holds an active/valid national certification certificate issued by PTCB (PTCE) or NHA (ExCPT).