Utility Worker - Softgel

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Working at Pharmavite is an experience like no other. With a focus on complete nutrition for all, each endeavor is urgent and every day counts. You'll have the opportunity to work on the #1 selling national vitamin and supplement brand, Nature Made, as well as an exciting portfolio of other products that are shaping the future of the healthy living industry. Consumer-driven innovation, high quality products and a promising portfolio, all driven by a team with a shared sense of purpose -- that's Pharmavite. Join us to bring the gift of health to life.

This role is not available for any form of immigration sponsorship or support, including completion of the Form I-983 training plan required for STEM OPT. 

Day Shift 5

'The Utility Worker (Softgel) is responsible for performing a variety of manual duties in the pick up and transportation of product, assisting machine operators, polishing and packaging product, cleaning equipment and facilities, and maintaining simple, routine records. 

Responsibilities:

• Stages required materials to feed multiple encapsulation machines and maintain uninterrupted production in accordance with priorities of the production schedule.

• Identifies multiple materials and using pallet jacks transports them to the work area to be staged. Removes empty containers and vessels to be washed or recycled as required.

• Uses hand tools such wrenches, screw drivers, nut-drivers, cutters and pliers to prepare flow-lines of various sizes.

• Prepares connections, claps, tubing and required tools to efficiently exchange and connect various types of vessels and containers to encapsulation machines.

• Identifies the correct materials and scans them to charge them to appropriate in-process work orders. Records each utilized material in the appropriate batch record in accordance with cGMP’s.

• Cleans and prepares equipment, mixes medicines that tend to settle to ensure proper flow when they are installed on the encapsulation machines.

• Monitors temperatures of over twenty vessels and reports discrepancies to supervisors.

• Cleans and maintains the work area in an orderly fashion.

• Multitasks on various activities to maintain uninterrupted production of capsules on multiple lines.

• Uses fork lift, pallet jack and drum dollies to locate, pick up and transport raw materials, in-process or finished product to and from storage or within the soft gel department.

• Assists in loading product/ingredients into machines.

• Assists in disassembling equipment and cleaning it in accordance with specific procedures; washes and dries utensils, pans, tanks and other containers; uses a variety of cloths, brushes and cleaning agents to clean rooms in which product is prepared or stored, ensuring they meet sanitary requirements of the Company.

• Assists machine operators with changeovers from one product to another.

• Maintains routine logs and records of cleaning and transportation and production activities, ensuring accuracy, completeness and compliance with procedures.

• Uses scales to weigh materials and product; calculates and records results; informs supervisor when results don't balance.

• Spreads soft gelatin capsules on trays ensuring they are distributed evenly and meets quality standards.

• Makes cakes from old/unusable gelatin; fills stainless trays with hot gelatin; lies to cool; peels out of tray and puts in drum for sale as scrap.

• Pumps medicine into receivers.

• Uses small hand tools to assist with disassembling equipment, and other duties.

• Maintains work areas in a clean and orderly fashion in accordance with set sanitary standards; cleans holding trays and other equipment.

• Scoops capsules into polishing pans and monitors polishing process; notifies supervisor when product is defective or does not meet quality standards.

• Unloads capsules, as necessary, transfers capsules, fills and weighs into boxes, seals boxes, places on pallets and moves completed pallets to proper area. 

• Observes product, containers and packing to ensure they conform to set standards; notifies supervisor of variances.

• Cross-trains in duties of other Utility staff.

• Performs other related duties as assigned.

Minimum Qualifications:

Education:

A high school diploma/GED completion or 5 y