Production Pharmacist: GPM

• Providing best practice day-to-day manufacturing pharmaceutical services to manage workflow, production and document procedure compliance so as to ensure safe and efficacious medicines are manufactured.

Qualifications and Experience:

• Pharm Degree
• Registered with South African Pharmacy Council
• Preferably 2-3 years’ experience in Pharmaceutical Production in a Manufacturing environment
• cGMP skills
• Computer Literacy – MS Office (proficient in Excel, Word and PowerPoint)

Outputs:

• Lead training on SOP, departmental inspection, and audits (both internal and external)
• Online and in line testing resulting in approval of batch documentation and Provisional releases
• Submission of full production manufacturing tickets and supporting documentation within 24 hours of batch completions
• Ability to identify, execute and prioritize work tasks/projects
• Excellent interpersonal, communication skills and collaborative
• Strong problem solving and troubleshooting capabilities
• Improve production efficiency and reduce overtime
• Proper documentation of manufactured pharmaceutical products
• Perform Line Openings and Closures in manufacturing lines
• Prepare weekly production scheduling of product
• Auditing batch documents for QA closure and release
• Assist in preparing Annual Product Quality Reviews
• Initiate, investigate and close off CAPAs and Non-Conformances.
• Ensure regulatory compliance Safety, Health and Environmental Standards.
• Oversight on manufacturing process including in-process checks
• Regulatory and document compliance
• Handling of non-conforming production, both inbound, WIP and produced batches
• Audits and continuous improvement capabilities
• Development of team’s technical capabilities
• Lead / champion change overs, line opening, line closing,
• Lead and be the chief accountable officer for GMP and micro compliance in the area on shift