Production Technician

Job title: Production Technician

Location: Swiftwater, PA

THIS IS A ROTATING 3RD SHIFT POSITION.

About the job

Join a global network that powers how Sanofi delivers — seamlessly, purposefully, and at scale. In Manufacturing & Supply, you’ll help reimagine how life-changing treatments reach people everywhere, faster. 

Sanofi Pasteur, the vaccines division of Sanofi, provides more than 1 billion doses of vaccine each year, making it possible to immunize more than 500 million people across the globe. A world leader in the vaccine industry, Sanofi Pasteur offers a broad range of vaccines protecting against 20 infectious diseases. The company's heritage, to create vaccines that protect life, dates back more than a century. Sanofi Pasteur is the largest company entirely dedicated to vaccines. Every day, the company invests more than EUR 1 million in research and development. For more information, please visit: www.sanofipasteur.com or www.sanofipasteur.us

About Sanofi

We’re an R&D-driven, AI-powered biopharma company committed to improving people’s lives and delivering compelling growth. Our deep understanding of the immune system – and innovative pipeline – enables us to invent medicines and vaccines that treat and protect millions of people around the world. Together, we chase the miracles of science to improve people’s lives.

Main Responsibilities:

• Performs production activities in accordance with volume fluctuation, business need, and effective procedures. 

• Works to support production units by consistently providing required materials in a timely manner. 

• Ensures all materials required for production are available prior to need. 

• Identifies production issues and relays them to the leadership team. 

• Ensures all required paperwork is complete, accurate and done in a timely manner to ensure accurate inventory. 

• Completes tasks and corresponding documentation as required by cGMP.

• Works to prepare assigned areas for the oncoming shifts. 

• Completes at least one developmental class annually focused on one of the four core competencies. 

• Works to become trained in all assigned training modules. 

• Trains and orients new team members (at any level) as assigned. 

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

• Participates in monthly safety meetings. 

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

• 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.  Works to understand cGMP’s. 

• Identifies areas of deficiency to the leadership team and offers potential suggestions for improvements. 

• Participates in both deviation investigations when appropriate and implementation plans to ensure a quality product.

• May participate in completion of quality documentation (BPR's, logbooks, etc.).FDA audit understanding and awareness. 

• Participates in team meetings.  Actively communicates improvement ideas, issues, concerns, etc to team. 

• Participates in cross functional teams where necessary to complete projects in an effective and timely manner. 

• Lead Operator, Completes picklists and move tickets for all tasks completed on any given day. 

• This may require inputting data into SAP, along with entering work orders and reagent orders. 

• Ensures proper process area operation by pre and post run set up and maintenance of lab and equipment. 

• Recommends changes to BPRs, SOPS and SWIs were warranted.  Write and edit documents under supervision. 

• Seeks out cross training in other areas whenever possible. 

• Responsible for a