Medical Materiel

What does the Medical Materiel career field do?

Performs and manages preparation and maintenance of manual and mechanized accountable medical materiel records, and requisitioning, receiving, storing, issuing, safeguarding, and accounting for supplies and equipment. Processes and monitors requests for contracts. Implements and directs medical materiel activities for inventory control, accounting, financial planning, and management of supplies and equipment. Performs and monitors computer operations. Related DoD Occupational Subgroup: 134100.

Duties and responsibilities

• Performs and manages administrative functions. Requisitions, receives, and maintains medical materiel publication files. Provides information to using activities on issues, schedules, and related matters.
• Performs, organizes, and monitors medical materiel management functions. Prepares and validates computer input data to establish, revise, and maintain master records. Determines requirements for and maintains records on war reserve materiel and other special programs. Initiates and manages the requisitioning, receipt, storage, issue and turn in of medical materiel. Ensures proper supply flow under various issue methods. Establishes and monitors a quality control program. Ensures effective internal controls for processing property documents and maintaining accountable records. Determines and evaluates action taken to establish stock control levels and inventory control. Conducts inventories. Processes, maintains, and monitors requests for services and rentals. Coordinates internal operations with the medical equipment maintenance activity. Monitors coordination of support by base activities.
• Inspects, reviews, and evaluates medical materiel support. Conducts periodic internal inspections of medical materiel for compliance with policies, procedures, and directives. Analyzes reports and records and takes necessary corrective action. Ensures effective support is provided for all customers. Visits supported activities.
• Performs medical materiel functions. Establishes and ensures timely and efficient management of excess materiel and equipment. Receives and inspects incoming supplies and equipment. Applies special handling procedures for controlled medical items, gases, precious metals, dangerous and hazardous materials and refrigerated or frozen materials. Provides and maintains medical kits and sets. Delivers supplies and equipment to supported activities.
• Operates and supervises the base medical equipment management office and non-medical materiel support. Validates and coordinates equipment requests. Monitors expense and investment equipment fund programs. Ensures in-use equipment asset inventories are accomplished and necessary corrective actions and documentation is taken. Provides and monitors non-medical supply and equipment support.
• Operates and supervises the operation of automated data processing equipment. Ensures system operations are according to standard system center documents. Performs and supervises periodic maintenance on computer systems. Ensures proper scheduling of all computer processing, and processes required programs.

Specialty qualifications

Knowledge. Knowledge is mandatory of Air Force property and financial accounting base on automated data processing, logistics and related publications, medical materiel procedures, identity and general characteristics of medical materiel, and organization of medical materiel accounts.

Education. For entry into this specialty, completion of high school courses in management, basic electronic data processing, bookkeeping, accounting, and business administration is desirable.

Training. For award of AFSC 4A131, completion of a basic medical materiel course is mandatory.

Experience. The following experience is mandatory for award of the AFSC indicated:

• 4A151. Qualification in and possession of AFSC 4A131.
• 4A171. Qualification in and possession of AFSC 4A151.
• 4A191. Qualification in and possession of AFSC 4A171. Also, experience managing all medical materiel functions.

Other. The following is mandatory as indicated:

• For entry into this specialty:
• Must possess a valid state driver’s license to operate government motor vehicles (GMV) in accordance with AFI 24-301, Vehicle Operations.
• See attachment 4 for additional entry requirements.
• For award and retention of these AFSCs, must maintain local network access IAW AFI 17-130, Cybersecurity Program Management and AFMAN 17-1301, Computer Security.

Civilian career paths

Comparable civilian careers for this field pay roughly $29,190–$125,940 per year (median salaries; varies by role and location):

• Administrative Services Managers: $98,890
• Bookkeeping, Accounting, and Auditing Clerks: $42,410
• Counter and Rental Clerks: $30,870
• Document Management Specialists: $92,870
• First-Line Supervisors of Helpers, Laborers, and Material Movers, Hand: $54,870
• First-Line Supervisors of Office and Administrative Support Workers: $58,450
• Medical Equipment Preparers: $38,800
• Order Clerks: $35,590
• Procurement Clerks: $44,740
• Purchasing Managers: $125,940
• Shipping, Receiving, and Inventory Clerks: $35,260
• Stockers and Order Fillers: $29,190
• Supply Chain Managers: $96,390
• Transportation, Storage, and Distribution Managers: $96,390