Production Technician - Vaccines

Job title: 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.

The Swiftwater site is in northeast Pennsylvania and is home to the production of over 120 million doses of injectables that help prevent diseases and enhance patients' quality of life. Our teams follow current Good Manufacturing Practices (cGMP) and procedures while working in a fast-paced team environment.  

The production technician is the “heartbeat” of the manufacturing facilities and is responsible for the high quality and efficient production of our injectables in accordance with current good manufacturing practices (cGMP) for all relevant regulatory agencies (e.g. FDA).

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:

Base Production Technician Responsibilities:

• Focus on quality and safety of teammates, processes, products, equipment, and documentation

• Ability to work in both an individual and team environment

• Is trained according to all training assignments

• Your individual contributions will drive collective business goals which ultimately help patients

• Completes tasks and corresponding documentation as required by cGMP

• Ability to lift TBD per health center

Formulation Production Technician

• Training and qualified for an aseptic environment

• Supports all forms of preparation and production activities with tanks, parts, filter testing, skid prep, and buffer skids

• Inventory management and transactions using enterprise system

• Environmental Monitoring/Cleaning Monitoring

• Ensures samples are taken, documented, and delivered in a timely manner

• Works to ensure buffer formulation processes are executed in accordance with the procedure

Filling Production Technician

• Aseptic gown qualified

• Training and qualified for an aseptic environment

• Must attend shift change daily

• Inventory management using enterprise system

• Environmental Monitoring sampling

Inspection Production Technician

• Requires 20/20 vision with corrective lenses and yearly eye exam

• Bench lead, cap check, and stopper checks

• Participates in delivery and reconciliation

• Ensures the completion of sampling and corresponding documentation as required.

• Ensures the completion of move tickets to ensure accurate inventory. 

Packaging Production Technician

• Support manual hand packaging and automated packaging equipment

• Operate machinery, change over duties, and clean-up functions

• Assist in pre and post run set up and including line clearance

• Help with material movement using pallet jacks, carts, etc.

Staging Logistics - Technician Responsibilities:

• Manages inventory for productions floor with providing material as needed

• Assist in material movement using forklifts, pallet jacks, carts, and/or manual loading

• Inventory management using enterprise system

• Works in cold storage and controlled storage areas

• Responsible to execute the physical disposal of approved material disposal orders

• Forklift Certification is required within one year of start date

• Maintained an orderly and neat staging and racki