Senior Technician, Formulations

Senior Technician, Formulations

The Senior Formulation Technician will assist the R&D Formulations staff with product development activities from small scale to commercial batch production. The Senior Formulation Technician should be someone with a keen interest in life sciences or drug manufacturing, as well as the ability to serve as a leader and mentor to other more junior technicians. The technician will perform various techniques of drug manufacturing including dispensing, blending, granulation, compression and coating.

Responsibilities include:

• Assist in running projects associated with product development, product and process optimization batches, and on completion to ensure robustness of the process and formulation.
• Train and mentor other technicians within the Formulations team
• Work on special Formulations projects as requested
• Coordinate and execute cleaning, process validation, and CMS technical / process operations activities with company quality units, operation, R&D and regulatory affairs for commercial or R&D products.
• Ensure sampling and testing are completed as planned.
• Assist in writing reports and preparing master formulary records.
• Follow protocol and batch records in manufacturing development batches and relate observations to CMS Manufacturing Associates and/or R&D Formulation group.
• Perform other duties as assigned.

Experience, education, and skills required include:

• 7+ years' experience in a pharmaceutical environment or equivalent combination of education and experience
• Cross-trained in the manufacturing unit operations such as granulation, blending, compression, coating, and encapsulation.
• Aptitude and patience to train and develop more junior technicians
• Mechanical skills/ability is required.
• Excellent interpersonal, verbal, and written communication skills are essential in this collaborative work environment.
• cGMP knowledge is essential.
• Knowledge of analytical laboratory testing.
• Proficient in the use of Microsoft Office and other applications as applicable.
• Ability to travel occasionally and ability to work weekend shifts as required.

Physical demands include:

• The physical demands here are representative of those that must be met by an employee to successfully perform the essential functions of this job. Reasonable accommodations may be made to enable individuals with disabilities to perform the essential functions.
• While performing the duties of this job, the employee is frequently required to sit, use hand and fingers, to manipulate objects, tools, or controls; and reach with hands and arms. The employee is occasionally required to stand, walk, stoop, kneel, crouch, or crawl, and talk or hear.
• Specific vision abilities required by this job include close vision, color, peripheral, depth perception and the ability to adjust focus.
• Stand, walk, push, pull, twist, reach overhead, and bend to the floor.
• Must have ability to wear a respirator in order to work with chemicals of a specified potency level
• Occasionally move items or equipment weighing up to 50 pounds – potential to handle heavier materials with mechanical assistance.
• Occasionally required to climb ladders and/or steps to reach equipment.
• Reading precision measuring equipment, machine dials, gages, and thermometers; must be able to observe fine details utilizing a microscope.

Adare Pharma is an equal opportunity employer & prohibits unlawful discrimination based on race, color, religion, gender, sexual orientation, gender identity/expression, national origin/ancestry, age, disability, marital & veteran status.

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