Formulation Technician I - Mon - Weds Days

Formulation Technician

Compensation: $21.75/HR Shift: Monday - Wednesday Days - 6:00am - 6:30pm Location: Cincinnati, OH - 2110 East Galbraith Road

As part of the Thermo Fisher Scientific team, you'll discover meaningful work that makes a positive impact on a global scale. Join our colleagues in bringing our Mission to life every single day to enable our customers to make the world healthier, cleaner and safer. We provide our global teams with the resources needed to achieve individual career goals while helping to take science a step beyond by developing solutions for some of the world's toughest challenges, like protecting the environment, making sure our food is safe or helping find cures for cancer. Join our Pharma Services team and be a part of a leading contract development and manufacturing organization (CDMO) offering end-to-end services for drug development, clinical trial logistics, and commercial manufacturing! Biotech and biopharma companies trust us for our speed, flexibility, and quality across every phase of drug development.

Our Drug Product team supports customers in the formulation, production, and packaging of high-quality drug products! Our dedicated colleagues offer a wide range of services, including formulation development, process optimization, scale-up, fill-finish services, packaging, and labeling. Their efforts ensure the efficient production of various drug products, such as sterile injectables and oral dosage forms.

Location/Division Specific Information: The Cincinnati, OH site is a Center of Excellence for specialized oral solid dose manufacturing and drug development within the Pharma Services Group. How Will You Make an Impact?: As a Formulation Technician you will be responsible for performing operations related to the manufacturing of pharmaceutical products through equipment set-up, operation, clean up and maintenance in compliance with all regulatory cGMP requirements and company policies and procedures.

A Day in the Life:

• Accurately follows production documents, standard operating procedures (SOP's) and current good manufacturing practices (cGMPs)
• Maintains consistent and accurate documentation of activities to include batch production, cleaning, assembly, material transportation, and waste disposal.
• Follow approved batch records (BPR's), clean up sheets, and equipment assembly sheets.
• Safely operates computer-controlled equipment used in dispensing, granulation, compression or coating.
• Disassembles, cleans, and re-assembles equipment using basic hand tools to include mixers, extruders, dryers, tablet press, encapsulation, coating pans, printers, or tablet inspection machines.

Education:

• High school diploma or equivalent required.

Experience:

• Preferred: Previous work experience in manufacturing, operations, production or lab setting or related field
• Preferred: Experience in a cGMP environment

Knowledge, Skills, Abilities:

• Mechanical aptitude/proficiency and ability to disassemble and reassemble various types of equipment (GMP facility preferred)
• Basic reading comprehension and math skills to follow sophisticated technical instructions and complete BPR calculations.
• Ability to maintain compliance in all SOP, cGMP, EHS and other training curriculum as assigned.

Physical Requirements / Work Environment:

• Manipulate/handle materials, equipment, tools, up to 100 lbs and lift containers weighing up to 40 lbs.
• Position requires wearing personal protective equipment to include white zone gowning requirements and various styles of respirators (1/2 face, 3-M hood, full face, and dust mask).
• Hand-scoop 5 lbs. intermittently throughout the workday.
• Operate a stand up fork lift and walkie stacker

What We Offer: Compensation:

• Competitive Hourly Pay Rate!
• Additional shift differential for 2nd shift and 3rd shift positions
• Annual performance-based bonus
• Annual merit performance-based increase

Excellent Benefits:

• Medical, Dental, & Vision benefits-effective Day 1
• Paid Time Off & Designated Paid Holidays
• 401K
• Tuition Reimbursement
• Employee Referral Bonus
• Career Advancement Opportunities