Lead Formulation Technician (12hr days, 2-2-3 rotation)

Work Schedule

12 hr shift/days

Environmental Conditions

Able to lift 40 lbs. without assistance, Adherence to all Good Manufacturing Practices (GMP) Safety Standards, Cleanroom: no hair products, jewelry, makeup, nail polish, perfume, exposed piercings, facial hair etc... allowed, Cold Room/Freezers -22degreesF/-6degrees C, Fluctuating Temps hot/cold, Laboratory Setting, Loud Noises (Equipment/Machinery), Office, Some degree of PPE (Personal Protective Equipment) required (safety glasses, gowning, gloves, lab coat, ear plugs etc.), Standing for full shift, Strong Odors (chemical, lubricants, biological products etc.), Warehouse, Will work with hazardous/toxic materials

Job Description

As part of the Thermo Fisher Scientific team, you’ll discover meaningful work that makes a positive impact on a global scale. Join our colleagues in bringing our Mission to life every single day to enable our customers to make the world healthier, cleaner and safer. We provide our global teams with the resources needed to achieve individual career goals while helping to take science a step beyond by developing solutions for some of the world’s toughest challenges, like protecting the environment, making sure our food is safe or helping find cures for cancer.

Location/Division Specific Information:
Greenville, NC/DPD

How Will You Make an Impact?:
As a Lead Formulation Technician, you will have key responsibilities that directly affect product quality and efficiency. Through leadership and influence of team performance, your contributions will include process improvements, training, and impact on meeting customer satisfaction of sterile injectable drug products. Your expertise will contribute directly to bringing life-saving medications to patients worldwide, ensuring the highest standards of quality and safety in pharmaceutical manufacturing. This position will start off as an 8-hour-Day shift position, but will ultimately transition into a 12-hour Day shift position. The candidate will also need to be flexible to support Days when needed.

A Day in the Life:

• Receive daily assignments and manufacturing schedule from Supervisor. Assign work to self, processors and servicers so that schedule can be met. Coordinate work based on schedule. Advise supervisor if there is a problem meeting the schedule.
• Ensure processors perform efficient manufacturing processes. Perform some manufacturing processes. Apply aseptic technique knowledge and ensure processors comply.
• Maintain quality products and equipment in manufacturing. Observe and implement all current Good Manufacturing Practices (cGMPs), safety precautions and housekeeping practices in performing duties. Align with cGMP, Occupational Safety Health Agency (OSHA) and company rulings. Keep area neat and clean.
• Assist supervisor in training in Standard Operating Procedures (SOPs), cGMPs, safety procedures. Perform other duties as assigned.

Education:

• High school diploma or equivalent required.

Experience:

• Minimum of three (3) years of experience in pharmaceutical, biopharmaceutical, or sterile manufacturing, four (4) years preferred.

• Hands-on experience in aseptic or sterile product formulation and using SAP or other manufacturing systems strongly preferred.

• Equivalent combinations of education, training, and relevant work experience may be considered.

Knowledge, Skills, Abilities:

• Knowledge of sterile operations including aseptic techniques, sterilization and compounding.
• Strong leadership ability
• Ability to efficiently collaborate to achieve goals and expectations.
• Ability to learn quickly.
• Ability to work independently.
• Ability to achieve and maintain qualifications to work in a clean-room environment.
• Ability to drive a fork lift and other mobile equipment to locate product and equipment as needed.
• Good attendance record.
• Effective verbal and written communication skills.
• Basic digital literacy.
• Strong communication skills.
• Flexibility with departmental work schedules, including overtime and all shift operations.

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.
• Job requires basic mobility and coordination to navigate office areas; ability to stand, walk, bend, and carry light to medium objects (10-35 pounds).