Processing Technician - 1st Shift

Processing Technician at Opella

As a Processing Technician for Sanofi Consumer Healthcare, you will manufacture bulk blend products, ensuring efficient setup, operation, tear-down, and cleaning of equipment. Your knowledge of cGMPs and SOPs will help drive seamless production in our processing area.

This is a 1st shift position, Monday‑Friday, 6:00am‑2:00pm.

• Operate and maintain production lines, ensuring safety, quality and output.
• Troubleshoot and propose smarter, simpler ways to keep things running.
• Get training and early ownership to build skills and confidence.
• Support sustainability goals and protect people and the planet.
• Work as part of a radically simple, supportive and outcome‑focused team.
• Ensure the quality and quantity of raw materials are accurately measured to produce finished bulk products according to specific formulations.
• Operate equipment (mills, grinders, conveyors, mixers, tableting presses) to create tablets, ointments, creams, liquids, and powders.
• Monitor the manufacturing process and implement control factors to keep production within acceptable limits.
• Maintain detailed production records, follow step‑by‑step procedures, and complete production orders efficiently.
• Keep equipment and work areas clean, organized, and well‑maintained.
• Ensure a safe work environment, report hazards and continuously develop skills to comply with FDA and cGMP requirements.

• High School Diploma or GED.
• Experience in manufacturing or production, including operating high‑speed packaging or assembly equipment, start‑ups, shutdowns, and changeovers.
• Proficiency in operating various packaging machinery and tools, including electric and manual lift trucks, tape machines, fillers, cappers, labelers, and bundlers.

• Capable of lifting 25‑60 pounds.
• Standing or walking for extended periods.
• Exceptional coordination, manual dexterity, and mechanical aptitude.

• Comply with dress code regulations.
• Willing to undergo necessary training.
• Work in conditions with exposure to product, dust, grease, and packing machinery hazards.

North America Applicants Only.

Starting hourly rate: $20.62. All compensation will be determined commensurate with demonstrated experience. Employees may be eligible to participate in company employee benefit programs.

Opella is a self‑care challenger with the purest and third‑largest portfolio in the OTC & VMS market globally. Our mission is to bring health into people’s hands by making self‑care as simple as it should be for half a billion consumers worldwide. Headquartered in France, Opella is the proud maker of many of the world’s most loved brands, including Allegra, Buscopan, Doliprane, Dulcolax, Enterogermina, Essentiale and Mucosolvan.

As a globally certified B Corp company, we are active players in the journey toward healthier people and planet. Find out more about our mission at