Senior Storekeeper, Department of Nutrition

UCLA Health's Santa Monica Hospital is seeking a fulltime Senior Storekeeper to support the Nutrition Department. This role is responsible for the safe, accurate and efficient ordering, receiving, storage and distribution of food and supply items, in compliance with JCAHO, CDPH and Title 22 standards.

Key responsibilities include:

• Storage Management
  Maintain proper storage and refrigeration conditions to preserve product quality and safety. Organize, rotate and label all food and nonfood items using FIFO procedures across freezers, refrigerators and storerooms.

• Issuing & Documentation
  Fulfill requisitions from hospital units, ensuring accurate distribution of items and maintaining required temperature logs and related documentation.

• Receiving & Quality Verification
  Inspect incoming deliveries to confirm correct quantity, grade and quality. Accept or reject items based on established criteria, and report shortages or outofstock items to Purchasing.

• Inventory Control
  Assist with inventory counts, ordering and organization of food and supply items to support departmental operations.

This role plays an essential part in ensuring the Nutrition Department operates efficiently and maintains high standards of safety and compliance.

• Knowledge of JCAHO and departmental sanitation and safety standards as they apply to kitchens, food storage and supply handling.
• Ability to communicate clearly oneonone with vendors, ordering units and management using appropriate vocabulary and grammar.
• Skill in operating flat carts, twowheel dollies and scales.
• Ability to add, subtract, multiply and divide whole numbers without a calculator for filling orders, performing inventory counts and verifying invoice quantities.
• Ability to use basic English to make corrections on receiving documents and requisitions, and to report or record vendor shortages or discrepancies.
• Ability to read food and refrigeration thermometers and verify proper storage temperatures.
• Clear telephone communication skills for placing orders and making vendor inquiries.
• Ability to maintain cooperative working relationships with coworkers, ordering units and vendors.
• Ability to frequently lift up to 75 pounds, push or pull carts carrying up to 1500 pounds, bend to reach low shelves, reach overhead and climb ladders to store, rotate and issue supplies.
• Ability to adapt to frequent workload changes and work effectively with interruptions.
• Ability to work in environments with extreme temperature variations while using appropriate protective gear.
• Ability to work independently and identify more efficient work methods.
• Ability to work in a nonsmoking environment.