Production Technician - Vaccine

Job Title: Production Technician - Vaccine

Location: Swiftwater, PA

This will be a 1st shift position with a 40hr work schedule.

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. Your job, as a Production Technician - Vaccine within our Filling Team, will have the potential to transform the practice of medicine, turning the impossible into possible for millions of people.

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.

Who We Are

Sanofi Pasteur is the vaccines division of Sanofi. We believe in a world in which no one suffers or dies from a vaccine-preventable disease. The Swiftwater site is located in northeast Pennsylvania and is home to the production of over 120 million doses of vaccine each year.

At Sanofi Pasteur’s Swiftwater site, we manufacture and market vaccines to help prevent diseases —some of which have a seasonal demand.  Given this seasonality, peak manufacturing periods require greater levels of labor and it is important that we have the optimal number of employees to meet the demand.

Who You Are

You are a detail-oriented person who thrives in a fast-paced team environment.

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

Like all production positions at the Company, this position may require to be moved or temporarily flexed to another department/location within the Swiftwater site due to business needs. This is a 40 hour work week.  Additionally, candidates should expect to work in multiple buildings including Building 79, Building 59 and Building 37.  We will attempt to provide as much advance notice as possible if any such change is needed. Some off-shift work may be required based on business needs.  The Technician is responsible for production in accordance with volume fluctuation, business needs, and effective procedures. 

Key Accountabilities:

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

• Ensures completion of sampling & corresponding documentation as required

• Participates or leads in all aspects of production process (SAP, cycle counting, LIMS, material ordering, Labwatch, Phenix, Medasys, DeltaV, Etc.)

• Works to resolve all production issues, and relays them to their leadership team

• Ensures all areas within the facility are adequately covered at all times

• Ensures that the team is thinking and working ahead whenever possible 

• Completes tasks and corresponding documentation as required by cGMP

• Identifies deviations and aids investigations and root cause analysis 

• Works to complete quality documentation (BPR’s, logbooks, etc) accurately in a timely manner

• Becomes trained in all assigned training modules

• Follows all procedures put into effect to ensure safety and the safety of others. 

• Reports all safety issues, concerns, incidents and near misses to area management.

• Based on department assignment, may be required to participate in the execution on the floor of Commissioning, Qualification, and Validation activities of production equipment and     production processes.  Responsibilities include equipment set-up, operations and troubleshooting, environmental monitoring, etc.

What You Will Do

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

Communication

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

Detail orientation

• Works to complete quality documentation (batch production records, logbooks, etc.) accurately in a timely manner.

Continuous improvement