Packaging Technician

Catalent•Philadelphia, PA

11d•Onsite

About The Position

Packaging Technician (2nd shift) Position Summary: Catalent Pharma Solutions in Philadelphia, PA is hiring a Packaging Technician (2nd shift) in the Operations Department. The Operations Department is responsible for providing customized innovative manufacturing and packaging solutions. The department oversees all manufacturing and production aspects of quality packaging and labeling of our customer’s clinical trial projects. Catalent, Inc. is a leading global contract development and manufacturing organization (CDMO) whose mission is to develop, manufacture, and supply products that help people live better and healthier lives. Catalent is dedicated to delivering unparalleled service to pharma, biotech, and consumer health customers, supporting product development, launch, and full life-cycle supply. With time-tested experience in development sciences, delivery technologies, and multi-modality manufacturing, Catalent supports the acceleration of development programs and the launch of more than a hundred new products every year. Powered by thousands of scientists and technicians and the latest technology platforms at more than 40 global sites, Catalent supplies billions of doses of life-enhancing and life-saving treatments for patients annually. This 206,878 square-foot facility, located in the Philadelphia area is Catalent’s global Center of Excellence for Clinical Supply Packaging. Catalent offers GMP secondary packaging and clinical labeling services throughout our global network. Packaging can be configured to hold a single product, or multiple products as determined by study requirements. We offer manual patient kit assembly along with semi-automated and automated wallet sealing and high-speed automated carding to meet the needs of studies of all sizes. For temperature sensitive products and those with minimal to zero allowable time out of environment, we can perform secondary packaging in refrigerated and frozen packaging rooms or over dry ice depending upon your project needs. Using our Clinicopia global labeling system with its multi-lingual label phrase library we can design single panel, booklet labels or our unique Peel-ID™ safe storage labels for your studies. Single panel and Peel-ID™ safe storage labels can be conveniently reviewed and approved online via our Fusion portal before being printed and inspected at our facilities. Catalent hires people with a passion to make a difference to the health of millions of people globally. Your expertise, coupled with Catalent’s advanced technologies and collaboration with thousands of innovative pharmaceutical, biotech and healthcare companies, will help bring life-enhancing products to the people you know and love. Your talents, ideas and passion are essential to our mission; to develop, manufacture and supply products that help people live better, healthier lives. This position must be able to work in a team environment to offer quality packaging and labeling of customer’s clinical trials. Employees will be involved with handling look-alike products and labeling. Clinical operations can be run as a blister fill, bottle fill, pouch, carding, vial/syringe inspection or hand assembly. Employees will also be involved with de-inking of product and capsule manufacturing. These individuals must be detail oriented in order to work with multiple look-alike products at the same time This is a full-time hourly position: Monday – Friday,4:00pm to 12:10am. Please Note: Occasional weekend work is required. This is a union position. Catalent is committed to a Patient First culture through excellence in quality and compliance, and to the safety of every patient, consumer, and Catalent employee.

Requirements

High School Diploma or equivalent.
2-3 years previous production or warehouse experience preferred.
Ability to read and interpret customer specifications, cGMPs, SOPs, and follow written/oral instructions accurately while communicating effectively.
Demonstrates attentiveness, professionalism, good personal hygiene, and strong teamwork skills in a fast-paced environment.
Able to troubleshoot problems, report issues, and follow all plant safety guidelines.
Physically capable of standing, walking, sitting, and occasionally lifting up to 25 lbs; must meet vision requirements for reading documents and computer use.
Willingness to work overtime, frequently in cold environments, and perform sanitation/cleaning tasks (e.g., mopping walls, floors, ceilings, equipment).
Accessible to both manufacturing floor and office staff, with ability to operate required office equipment.

Nice To Haves

2-3 years previous production or warehouse experience preferred.

Responsibilities

Inspect blister cavities, bottles, pouches, vials, ampoules, syringes, and sealed clinical cards for defects such as missing product, poor seals, misaligned closures, print errors, or contamination.
Perform hand counts of product using trays and fill tablet, bottle, desiccant, and closure hoppers.
Support manufacturing tasks including de-inking product, tablet breaking, oversized capsule filling, and capsule inspection.
Place blister units into assigned card locations for multi-fill operations, following product assignment requirements on look-alike or multi-fill projects.
Inspect and verify clinical labels, ensuring 100% accountability for both manual and automated applications.
Operate barcode scanners and computers for packaging and assembly work.
Perform cleaning of product contact parts, machine equipment, and production rooms according to SOPs and logbook requirements.
Execute sanitation tasks using the three-bucket mop system for ceilings, walls, and floors.
Work in cold storage environments as required, handling products both inside and outside refrigerated conditions.
Adhere to all SOPs, safety, and quality requirements while ensuring accuracy and compliance in all packaging operations.
Other duties as assigned.

Benefits

Diverse, inclusive culture
Several Employee Resource Groups focusing on D&I
Dynamic, fast-paced work environment
Positive working environment focusing on continually improving processes to remain innovative
Potential for career growth on an expanding team within an organization dedicated to preserving and bettering lives
Competitive salary
Community engagement and green initiatives
Medical, dental and vision benefits effective after 90-day probationary period
Catalent offers rewarding opportunities to further your career!
Join the global drug development and delivery leader and help us bring over 7,000 life-saving and life-enhancing products to patients around the world.
Catalent is an exciting and growing international company where employees work directly with pharma, biopharma and consumer health companies of all sizes to advance new medicines from early development to clinical trials and to the market.
Catalent produces more than 70 billion doses per year, and each one will be used by someone who is counting on us.
Join us in making a difference. personal initiative. dynamic pace. meaningful work.