Pharmaceutical Technician - 3rd Shift
Catalent
2021-12-03 11:30:03
Winchester, Kentucky, United States
Job type: fulltime
Job industry: Science & Technology
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Job description
Job Description
Position Overview:
Catalent hires people with a passion to make a difference to the health of millions of people globally. Your expertise, coupled with Catalent's advanced technologies and collaboration with thousands of innovative pharmaceutical, biotech and healthcare companies, will help bring life-enhancing products to the people you know and love. Your talents, ideas and passion are essential to our mission; to develop, manufacture and supply products that help people live better, healthier lives. Interested in learning more about life at Catalent? Start here
Pharmaceutical Technician- 3rd Shift
The Pharmaceutical Technician reports to the Manufacturing Supervisor.
The Pharmaceutical Technicians/Machine Operators are responsible for the processing of product per batch record specifications. These responsibilities include weighing, transferring, mixing and processing of raw material to create a finished good. Machine Operators are also responsible for cGMP cleaning of all manufacturing suites, corridors and equipment. All responsibilities are dictated by strict regulations, eg, cGMPs, SOPs and batch records.
Catalent's Winchester location is the flagship US manufacturing location for large scale complex controlled release (CR) oral dose forms, with integrated analytical and development services. With 20 years of expertise in product development, technology transfers and commercial manufacturing, and roots in industry leading Glatt technology. This site offers newly installed Fluid Beds, expanded analytical labs, and an advanced open facility design that provides flexibility in supporting the requirements of any new customer program.
The Role
- Handling of raw materials for product assembly and finished products
- Manipulation of drums to and from 6-inch pallets (up to 80 lbs. of force)
- Drum weight
- Manoeuvring of drums in lab consisting of rolling, scooting, pushing and pulling (up to 80 lbs. of force)
- Utilization of scoops and other hand held implements
- Lifting boxes and/or containers up to 40 lbs. (18.2 kg) from waist to chest height
- Loading product of various amounts of completion to counters and quality control devices
- Overhead lift and reach (?15 lbs.)
- Use of various job task dependent tools and work saver equipment including pallet jacks
- Operating safely in a dynamic environment which includes mobile and fixed equipment and changing conditions while completing job tasks that range from simple to complex and/or multi-tasking
The Candidate
- Minimum of a High School Degree with a two year technical or Associate's degree preferred.
- Perform basic math calculations
- Ability to utilize hand tools to assemble and disassemble various types of machinery
- Ability to follow instructions and procedures (SOPs, cGMPs)
- Encapsulation Only - Individual must also be able to pass standardized color plate performance (HRR: PSEUDOISOCHROMATIC PLATES) and have corrected or uncorrected visual acuity of 20/30 near vision.
Why You Should Join Catalent
? Competitive medical benefits and 401K
? 19 days of PTO + 8 Paid Holidays
? Dynamic, fast-paced work environment
? Opportunity to work on Continuous Improvement Processes
Catalent offers rewarding opportunities to further your career! Join the global drug development and delivery leader and help us bring over 7,000 life-saving and life-enhancing products to patients around the world. Catalent is an exciting and growing international company where employees work directly with pharma, biopharma and consumer health companies of all sizes to advance new medicines from early development to clinical trials and to the market. Catalent produces more than 70 billion doses per year, and each one will be used by someone who is counting on us. Join us in making a difference.
Catalent is committed to the health and safety of its employees, visitors and the customersand patients we serve. As a result of the global pandemic, we have modified many of our recruitment and on-boarding processes to maintain everyone's safety. The Human Resources teams will communicate all necessary safety processes and procedures throughout each stage.
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