Formulation technician

Location / Division Specific Information

As part of the Drug Product Division (DPD), the Greenville, North Carolina site is a multi-purpose pharmaceutical development, manufacturing, and packaging campus.

The operation specializes in taking both sterile injectable and oral solid dose drug products from development phase through to commercialization!

How Will You Make an Impact

The Formulation Technician II will be responsible to produce sterile injectables and work on problems of moderate scope where analysis of situations or data requires a review of a variety of factors.

This colleague follows written and verbal instructions when performing the following duties.

A Day in the Life

• Ensure pharmaceutical products are manufactured in accordance with area SOPs and current cGMP
• Verify and document production activities in batch records, logbooks and controlled forms
• Complete tasks vital to manufacture drug products in an aseptic filling area, including : Cleaning cGMP AreasPerform line changeoversParts PreparationFilter Integrity TestingOperating Parts Washers and AutoclavesPerforming Tray Loading and UnloadingOperating the Filling IsolatorGeneral Material HandlingTroubleshooting Equipment Alarms

Education

• High School Diploma or equivalent required
• Associates or Bachelor’s degree preferred

Experience

• Required : Minimum of 1 year of work experience in a manufacturing, operations, production, lab setting or related field
• Preferred : Experience in a cGMP environment

Knowledge, Skills, Abilities

• Excels in a team environment.
• Basic math skills.
• Good verbal / written communication.
• Attention to detail while maintaining a quality product.
• Ability to follow SOPs.

Physical Requirements / Work Environment

• Work in a clean-room which is a controlled environment for temperature and humidity having low ambient noise.
• Wear gowning which includes : gloves, hair & beard net and face cover, safety glasses with no makeup / jewelry, and the like.
• Use Personal Protective Equipment (PPE) and understand chemical hygiene.
• Infrequently lift and manipulate up to 25 pounds max unassisted.
• Stand and move about including reaching, bending, stooping, grasping.
• Use hand tools and equipment including forceful gripping, grasping, pushing and pulling.
• Position requires ordinary ambulatory skills and physical coordination sufficient to move about office locations; ability to stand, walk, stoop, kneel, crouch periodically for prolonged periods of time;

manipulation (lift, carry, move) of light to medium weights of 10-35 pounds.

Last updated : 2024-08-17