Off-Shift SPO Bio-Technician Level 1

Job Description

Are you looking for an exciting opportunity with a rapidly growing pharmaceutical manufacturer? If so, then this is the opportunity for you

Our Manufacturing Operations teams are the people that make our products. We work in the manufacturing plants with a "Safety First, Quality Always"

mindset striving for continuous improvement. We work in the local plant linked to our global manufacturing network to ensure the highest quality of raw materials, intermediates and finished products.

Primary Responsibilities

• Working in conjunction with all appropriate personnel, performs manual and automated operations, general maintenance and support functions necessary for the production of viral vaccines
• Maintains, orders, inventories, and transports all required equipment, materials, supplies and products. Ensures shipment criteria and timely availability and delivery
• Interfaces with the Delta V system and other automated systems (including, but not limited to, Laboratory Information Management System, IMPACT)
• Performs general maintenance and assists in troubleshooting of equipment. Initiates and documents corrective actions
• Assists in developing and maintaining, Standard Operating Procedures, logs, and other documentation
• Maintains good housekeeping in all work areas
• Participates in and assists with development and execution of personnel training as established by supervisor
• Participates in developmental work for new products/processes and performs sampling/in-process testing
• Assists in all follow up concerned with products lots achieving released status (e.g. investigations and other required documentation)
• During start-up, processing and completion of the manufacturing process, provides all documentation necessary to allow proper accountability and traceability of product
• At the start and finish of each shift, reports and makes recommendations regarding equipment supplies, required repairs, process concerns, safety concerns, and area improvements
• Maintains, cleans and prepares special equipment used in vaccine production
• Performs environmental monitoring (routine and per process) and records results in the computerized database system
• Promotes department ergonomics program and participates in stretching exercises
• Executes duties of lower labor grades

Position Qualifications:

Education Minimum Requirement

• Bachelor degree in a Science Related Field

Required Experience and Skills

• Ability to work in a team environment
• Expected to lift and move various items, up to 50 lbs.
• Knowledge of metric system
• Neatness, accuracy, dexterity
• Individual must successfully demonstrate and maintain proficiency in aseptic techniques, and aseptic gowning by passing monitoring testing
• Must be able to work 2nd or 3rd shift

Preferred Experience and Skills

• Laboratory or manufacturing operations experience requiring aseptic or sterile technique
• Working in a GMP facility
• Automated system or computer systems

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Employees working in roles that the Company determines require routine collaboration with external stakeholders, such as customer-facing commercial, or research-based roles, will be expected to comply not only with Company policy but also with policies established by such external stakeholders (for example, a requirement to be vaccinated against COVID-19 in order to access a facility or meet with stakeholders). Please understand that, as permitted by applicable law, if you have not been vaccinated against COVID-19 and an essential function of your job is to call on external stakeholders who require vaccination to enter their premises or engage in face-to-face meetings, then your employment may pose an undue burden to business operations, in which case you may not be offered employment, or your employment could be terminated. Please also note that, where permitted by applicable law, the Company reserves the right to require COVID-19 vaccinations for positions, such as in Global Employee Health, where the Company determines in its discretion that the nature of the role presents an increased risk of disease transmission.

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Job Posting End Date:07/26/2024

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Requisition ID:R304984