Operator III, Formulation / Filling (Multiple Shifts)

About the Department

At Novo Nordisk, we want to make a difference. For more than 100 years, we have led the way in diabetes care. Being part of Novo Nordisk allows our employees to embark on the opportunity to help improve the quality of life for millions of people around the world.

 

Our Bloomington, Indiana site is a state-of-the-art facility where we have an integrated model from process and formulation to clinical and commercial biomanufacturing and drug product fill/finish and packaging. The Bloomington campus is a recognized facility where talented teams work with innovators to help develop, manufacture and supply products to patients around the world.  

 

What we offer you:

1. Leading pay and annual performance bonus for all positions
2. All employees enjoy generous paid time off including 14 paid holidays
3. Health Insurance, Dental Insurance, Vision Insurance – effective day one
4. Guaranteed 8% 401K contribution plus individual company match option
5. Family Focused Benefits including 14 weeks paid parental & 6 weeks paid family medical leave
6. Free access to Novo Nordisk-marketed pharmaceutical products
7. Tuition Assistance 
8. Life & Disability Insurance
9. Employee Referral Awards

 

At Novo Nordisk, you will find opportunities, resources, and mentorship to help grow and build your career.  Are you ready to realize your potential?  Join Team Novo Nordisk and help us make what matters.

 

The Position

Drug Product Primary Manufacturing produces sterile pharmaceuticals. The department includes equipment preparation, product formulation, material staging, and aseptic filling. Product in this area is filled into vials, syringes, or cartridges inside sterile isolator barriers.  The sterile barrier isolator provides a physical barrier between the manufacturing equipment and the personnel controlling the machine. The Drug Product Primary Manufacturing area is a cleanroom environment. Personnel working in this area are required to wear scrubs and/or coveralls, gloves, hairnet, safety glasses, and steel toed shoes.

 

Relationships

Reports to Manufacturing Supervisor.

Essential Functions

• Duties For All Functional Groups
• Has developed operational skills through formal training or work experience
• Demonstrate mathematical skills, including the ability to perform addition, subtraction, multiplication, division, significant figures and unit conversions
• Participates in and/or provides ideas for Continuous Improvement/Operational Excellence projects
• Reports safety and quality concerns and recommends improvement
• Works within established procedures with a minimal degree of supervision
• Actively promotes and demonstrates good communication and escalation
• Provides mentorship for onboarding employees
• Troubleshoot and provide recommendations to resolve basic equipment/process related issues
• Can provide technical descriptions of occurrences for investigations with ability to provide technical reports such as SCADA
• Designated Trainer for area related Performance Based Assessments
• Has participated in cross training opportunities in different functional areas or same functional area in different building
• Ability to speak as Subject Matter Expert over assigned area
• Daily execution of required sanitizations
• Electronic verification of allocated materials for processing
• Perform area room clearances prior to batch execution
• General housekeeping items (waste collection, stocking, etc) within production areas
• Executes work while following Good Documentation Practices and Aseptic Behavior
• Formulation
  • Performing standard calculations to achieve desired weight/mixture of drug products
  • Aliquoting liquids and powders from one vessel to another per batch record instructions
  • Perform sterile filtration and testing of applicable filters
  • Cleaning and sterilizing tanks wi