Senior Production Technician - Vaccines

Job title: Senior Production Technician - Vaccines

Location: Swiftwater, PA

About the Job

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.

This is a 3rd shift position.

The Senior Production Technician will:

Ensure operational area is running as intended to meet all operational goals.  

Ensures the completion of Environmental Monitoring sampling and corresponding documentation, data entry, and delivery as required during all aseptic processing. Real time review of this documentation.

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:

Safety:

• Follows all procedures put into effect to ensure your safety as well as the safety of others.  Participates in monthly safety meetings.

• Reports all safety issues, concerns, incidents and near misses to the team leadership.

• Actively participates in safety walkthroughs coordinated by the department’s safety team.

• Provides input for potential safety issues as well as contributing ideas for corrective and preventative actions.

• Follows effective procedures to ensure the production of a safe and efficacious product.

• Utilizes +QDCI boards for Safety issues

Quality:

• FDA audit understanding and awareness.  Ensures process in areas is following proper procedures at all times

• Identifies possible deviation occurrences and prevents or aids in investigations and root cause analysis. 

• Participate in completing at least one incident investigations, one CAPA action item, or one change control action item, along with projects.

• Ensures completion and review of quality documentation (BFR’s, logbooks, etc) accurately in a timely manner for process area assigned.

• Understands the function of the quality group and works with them to maintain a positive rapport.

• Writes edits and reviews process documentation for completeness. 

• Identifies areas of deficiency and offers suggestions for improvements. 

• Maintains acceptable execution with no emerging negative trends in procedural deviations

Delivery:

• Performs production in accordance with volume fluctuation, business need, and effective procedures. Must be flexible to ensure staffing for changing business volume and needs

•  Completes tasks and corresponding documentation as required by cGMP to ensure document completion.

• Works to prepare assigned areas for the oncoming shifts to ensure continuous operation and staffing. This includes assurance of all aseptic materials.

• Ensure proper septic set up and installation of aseptic fill parts and Filler set up. This is done in a Grade A environment. Must ensure maintenance of gowning and Physical dexterity to complete proper set up of machines so not to impact the safety, quality, and integrity of the product.

• All other duties as assigned. Adheres to all other company time keeping and attendance policies.

•  Ensures all Final Container materials required for production are available prior to need. These materials must be ready for aseptic filling operations to ensure the safety, quality, purity, and integrity of the product is maintained.

•  Ensures the completion of Real Time SAP transactions in an accurate and timely manner to ensure accurate inventory.

Cost:

• Executes procedure as documented to avoid deviations.

• Responsibly uses material in an efficient manner to reduce waste.

• Utilized Filling Standards to capture and Record HRxHR and Change Over Activities.

• Actively communicates improvement ideas, issues, concerns, etc. to team members along with providing solutions.

• Works to resolve common production issues related to area of work.

Involvement:

• Works to become t