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  • Location: Worthing
  • Salary: £18,525 annual salary plus benefits
  • Job Type:Permanent

Posted 20 days ago

  • Sector: Production
  • Contact: Adrienn Prezenszki
  • Contact Email: adrienn.prezenszki@nextphaserecruitment.com
  • Contact Phone: 01403 216216
  • Start Date: 2021-03-31
  • Job Ref: V-46777
Do you have excellent attention to detail and experience gained in a regulated manufacturing, packaging, or warehouse environment? A brand – new permanent role has arisen with a Pharmaceutical company in Worthing, West Sussex to join as a Packaging Technician to support the packaging of specific products. You will work 7am-3pm Monday to Friday, apart from some busier times where you will be required to work until 4pm or 4.30pm.

The Company
A pioneering Worthing-based Pharmaceutical company who manufacture and distribute life-changing drugs to patients across Europe and other territories around the world. They specialize in making vaccines for people who suffer from debilitating conditions and they have an excellent reputation as a local employer. The company is well known its positive and supportive working environment.

The Role
Working in a busy team, in which you will always collaborate in pairs, you will be responsible for processing individual patient orders, packaging individual vials of vaccines, ensuring the correct labels and codes are allocated and that the orders are prepared for dispatch and international delivery. You will conduct visual inspections of vials and syringes, check codes for correctness and highlight any potential issues so the Quality team can conduct investigations. Using your attention to detail to the full, you will ensure that all drug packets are packaged correctly, with the right labels as per a colour coding system. It is essential that you show strong attention to detail at all times.

The environment is controlled by strict GMP regulations, so you will have to wear overalls, hair net and shoe covers. Make-up and jewellery (including facial jewellery, tongues studs, ear piercings etc.) will not be permitted, as is standard within any Pharmaceutical production or laboratory environment.

You will work in a friendly team in a pleasant, modern clean room. The company offers kitchen facilities and free parking.

Benefits

In addition to a salary of £18,525; the company offers an excellent benefits package including:

  • 25 days’ holiday
  • Pension scheme
  • Life insurance
  • Private healthcare
  • Annual bonus (non-contractual and discretionary)
Experience
We are looking for hard-working, committed individuals with strong attention to detail. Previous experience in a regulated environment (GMP or ISO, from the Pharmaceutical, Food or Medical Devices sectors) would be a strong advantage but is not essential. Above all else, we want someone who works hard at all times, who offers excellent communication skills (both written and verbal), good literacy and numeracy, patience, an honest and likeable manner and strong attention to detail. Please note that colorblind candidates cannot be considered due to the colour-coding system used when you check and label the vials of vaccine.