Drug Product Operations Specialist (Compression/Encapsulation)

Job Description

Job Description

Transforming lives by transforming drug delivery

At Adare, every batch connects to a patient who depends on it. As a Drug Product Operations Specialist, you’ll join our Manufacturing Operations team, reporting to a Shift Supervisor, and progress through a structured cross-training path across dispensing, blending and granulation, compression, encapsulation, and coating — all within strict cGMP and Safety frameworks, including documentation and gowning procedures.

Your first 90 days

1. Days 1–30: Learn SOPs, cGMP fundamentals, gowning, and documentation. Support cleaning of product rooms and core equipment (mills, mixers, ovens, granulators). Shadow dispensing room setup per SOPs and Batch Manufacturing Records (BMRs); practice accurate logbook entries.
2. Days 31–60: Execute raw material dispensing per SOP and Production Batch Record; verify approved materials against BMRs, confirm expiry and retest dates, and issue materials with complete entries in the Production Batch Record, inventory card, and other paperwork.
3. Days 61–90: Operate granulation and coating systems, including Coating Pans (Accela Cota, Compulab) with dust collection. Begin compressing and encapsulating per BMRs, and clean encapsulation and tablet compression equipment to spec.

Equipment you’ll operate

Kilian S520, Syntheses 500, tablet presses, drum lifters, dedusters, metal detectors, scales, micrometers, hardness testers, printers, and inspection machines.

How you’ll excel

• Maintain audit-ready areas through disciplined cleaning and organization.
• Document everything — setups, cleanouts, material issuance — with precision.
• Live cGMP, departmental SOPs, and Safety Policies; follow your work schedule and take on additional duties as needed.
• Complete required training and maintain the ability to wear respiratory protection (medical clearance required).

Qualifications

• High School diploma or GED.
• At least 1 year of experience in a GMP-regulated setting.
• Competent with computers for training and interfacing with mechanical/control systems; strong oral and written communication.
• Proficient in basic math (whole numbers, fractions, decimals).
• Comfortable speaking to small groups of colleagues or customers.
• Proven ability to interpret and carry out detailed written, verbal, or diagram-based instructions using sound judgment.

Physical Demands

•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.

•The employee must regularly lift and/or move up to 30 pounds.Specific vision abilities required by this job include close vision, color, peripheral, depth perception and the ability to adjust focus.

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.