Staging Production Technician- Vaccines

Job Title: Staging Production Technician- Vaccines

Location: Swiftwater, PA

Shift: Third shift position, Tuesday through Saturday, from 10:00 PM to 6:30 AM

We deliver 4.3 billion healthcare solutions to people every year, thanks to the flawless planning and meticulous eye for detail of our Manufacturing & Supply teams. With your talent and ambition, we can do even more to protect people from infectious diseases and bring hope to patients and their families.

The Production Technician, coordinating scheduling and activities of staging personnel and communication with support teams, managing cold storage capacity and offsite cold storage day to day operations and monitoring performance to ensure production targets and quality standards are met while fostering a culture of working safely.

We are an innovative global healthcare company that helps the world stay ahead of infectious diseases by delivering more than 500 million vaccine doses a year. Across different countries, our talented teams are exploring new technologies to protect people and promote healthy communities. We chase the miracles of science every single day, pursuing progress to make a real impact on millions of patients around the world.

Main Responsibilities:

• Coordinates daily operation in accordance with volume fluctuation, business need, and effective procedures. Continually monitors production activities with emphasis on safety, quality, efficiency and cost. 40%

• Manages cold storage capacity and coordinates and manages offsite cold storage activities to ensure production schedule is met and avoid line shutdowns due to cold storage. Monitors product sample collection and distributions. 25%

• Works to complete quality documentation (deviation investigation support, batch records, logbooks, etc) accurately in a timely manner.  Reviews quality documentation for completeness and releases commodities as required 10%

• Implements and supports continuous improvement projects ie, iShift, Digital top clip, 10%

• Participates in team meetings.  Actively communicates improvement ideas, issues, concerns, etc to team members.  Assist in leading the shift communications and is responsible for assisting in the distribution of the shift change report. 5%

• Plan daily/weekly activities based on Packaging, Filling and Inspection planning schedules to help ensure all commodities are available.  Works to schedule operators/technicians for production. Informs Manager and DD of any production problems or concerns and recommends solutions.5%

• All other duties assigned5%

Context of the job/major challenges

Highlight the most significant aspects of the environment that affects the job. Describe the most important problems to resolve to achieve the job’s major purpose.

The GMP production environment requires attention to the details and accuracy within good documentation practices.  The multi shift GMP production environment that exists generates the need to work overtime as required often with short notice and the working of various shifts depending on business needs and production cycles.  The focus to create and maintain a safety culture that is proactive and striving for zero injuries is of the utmost importance and an expectation for all employees. 

• Is a trained designee to supervise staging activities including daily operations, maintaining adequate stock/supplies and maintenance needs.

• Ensure Packaging, Filling and Inspection operational area is running as intended to meet all operational goals. 

• Real time review of process documentation.

• Participates in all aspects of production process,(iLearn, Qualipso, Opstrakker, iShift etc.).

• Works to resolve all production issues and understands next steps to guide others through the process to complete them.

• Ensure preparedness for oncoming shifts.

• Acts as a liaison with support groups as needed.

• Works independently and under supervision of Leads, Senior Technicians, Area Managers and DDs to ensure continuous operation.

Dimensions/Scope

Their responsibilities are, but are not limited to:

Safety:

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