Packaging Technician II

Packaging Technician LV 2

Department: Packaging
Reports To: Materials Manager
FLSA Status: Non-Exempt

Employee Type: Full-Time

Hours: 40 hours/week

Monday - Friday

8:00 am – 5:00 pm (30 minutes for lunch and 30 minutes for a break)

Note: Nights and weekends can be approved by manager.

Summary
Handle, fill, and pool products to specified quantities for stock and customer orders

Essential Duties & Responsibilities

1. Perform filling operations of liquid or powder products into various containers, ensuring accuracy and consistency, for finished inventory, customer orders and internal use.

2. Ensure that all packaging vials and bottles are stocked and ordered as needed.

3. Communicate within the department of priorities and delays

4. Assures that all work is properly recorded and signed off in lab notebooks, batch records, worksheets, or other appropriate documents.

5. Identify equipment/tools that can improve the packaging department as a whole

6. Lead key pooling projects at scales that exceed standard pool volumes with support from manufacturing and other groups as needed.

7. Conduct minor product testing such as pH, conductivity, and others as needed

8. Complete inventory pulls and counts when needed

9. Act as subject matter expert for product fills, pools, and other related tasks as needed

10. Continually work to improve the packaging department and logistics as a whole.

11. Follow all safety protocols.

Other Duties
Other duties may be assigned.

Qualifications
To perform this job successfully, an individual must be able to perform each essential duty satisfactorily. The requirements listed below are representative of the knowledge, skill, and/or ability required. Reasonable accommodations may be made to enable individuals with disabilities to perform the essential functions.

Education/Experience
Associate’s or Bachelor’s degree in the field of science from an accredited college or university; or three-four years related experience and/or training; or equivalent combination of education and experience.

Physical Demands
The physical demands described 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 stand, walk, use hands, reach with hands and arms and talk or hear. The employee is occasionally required to sit; climb or balance and stoop, kneel, crouch, or crawl. The employee must occasionally lift and/or move up to 50 pounds. Specific vision abilities required by this job include close vision, distance vision, peripheral vision, depth perception and ability to adjust focus. Having proper pipetting/filling technic is critical to ensure product is handled and filled correctly.

The employee may be required to wear personal protective equipment such as gloves, a lab coat, safety glasses or goggles, a face shield, a respirator or other equipment necessary for safe performance of the job requirements. The employee may be required to wear gloves, gowns, hairnets and other clothing in order to protect product integrity.

Training Required
Current ISO Regulations
QSR (cGMP) Regulations
New Employee Orientation
Contingency Plans
Blood-borne Pathogens Regulation

HIPAA Regulations
Chemical Hygiene Plan Review
Personal Protective Equipment
Relevant QAPs, SOPs and SSOPs
Relevant equipment and methods
Relevant batch records

Note: Additional training provided as needed.

Reasoning Ability
Ability to apply common sense understanding to carry out instructions furnished in written, oral, or diagram form. Ability to deal with problems involving several concrete variables in standardized situations.

Communication
Ability to read and interpret documents such as safety rules, operating and maintenance instructions and procedure manuals. Ability to record actions and notations to ensure full traceability of product. This individual needs to be able to openly communicate with the Logistics Department on a day-to-day basis.

Math Ability
Ability to add, subtract, multiply and divide in all units of measure, using whole numbers, common fractions and decimals (simple amounts such percentages, volumes and conversion factors).

Equipment Used
Balances

Pipettes

Laminar flow hood

Centrifuges

Mixers

Multiwell plate reader

Personal computer

pH and conductivity meters

Tissue homogenizers, grinders, and blenders

Work Environment
The work environment characteristics described here are representative of those an employee encounters while performing 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 exposed to wet or humid conditions (non-weather); work near moving mechanical parts; fumes or airborne particles and toxic or caustic chemicals. The employee is occasionally exposed to work in high, precarious places; outdoor weather conditions; extreme cold (non-weather); extreme heat (non-weather); risk of electrical shock and vibration. The noise level in the work environment is moderate.