Pharmaceutical Packaging Technician

Eurofins CDMO Alphora Inc; Liverpool; On-site; GBP 60,000 - GBP 80,000; Full time

Job summary

A leading life sciences company in Liverpool seeks a Packaging Technician for a full-time position. The role involves supporting clinical supplies operations, maintaining compliance with GMP and regulatory processes, and constructing clinical trial kits. Candidates should possess experience in a regulated environment, strong communication skills, and the ability to work effectively in a team. The role offers competitive benefits, including health plans and recognition programs.

Benefits

Health Cash Plan

Life Assurance

Company Pension Plan

Employee Assistance Programme

Free car parking

Worldwide career opportunities

Access to Perkbox

Qualifications

• Previous experience in a regulated pharmaceutical environment.
• Experience constructing clinical trial kits.
• Understanding the principles of blinding in clinical trials.

Responsibilities

• Support Clinical Supplies Operation Packaging team.
• Operate primary, secondary, and clinical kits production operations.
• Collaborate with clients and ensure compliance with quality standards.

Skills

Packaging Technician experience

Regulatory processes understanding

GMP compliance

Communication skills

Team player

Tools

MS Office

SAP

Job description

About Eurofins

Eurofins Scientific is an international life sciences company, providing a unique range of analytical testing services to clients across multiple industries, to make life and our environment safer, healthier and more sustainable. From the food you eat, to the water you drink, to the medicines you rely on, Eurofins laboratories work with the biggest companies in the world to ensure the products they supply are safe, their ingredients are authentic, and labelling is accurate.

Eurofins is dedicated to delivering testing services that contribute to the health and safety of society and the planet, and to its corporate responsibility to protect the environment and ensure diversity, equity, and inclusion across the entire network of Eurofins companies.

We’re proud to be an armed forces-friendly place to work and welcome applications from reservists, armed forces veterans (including the wounded, injured and sick), as well as cadet instructors, and military spouses and partners.

Job Description

Unfortunately, we are unable to offer visa sponsorship for this role.

This is a fulltime, permanent position working 35 hours per week either of the following shift patterns:

• Monday – Thursday 07:00 – 15:00 & Friday 07:00 – 12:00.
• Monday – Thursday 08:30 – 16:45 & Friday 08:30 – 12:30.

The scope of work involves supporting the Clinical Supplies Operation (CSO) Packaging team. The individual will work in close collaboration with Quality and EHS as required.

Job Responsibilities

• Competent experience of start-up, operate and close down primary, secondary and clinical kits production operations in accordance with appropriate SOPs.
• Collaborating with client contacts and working with support and to ensure room and equipment cleanliness, material receipt and control, label and product accountability confirmation, automation set-up and correct functioning, conduct in‑process tests and post‑operation equipment strip down and clean.
• Competent experience constructing clinical trial kits in accordance with strict protocols to maintain blinding integrity.
• Able to independently control and monitor production processes and equipment; resolve problems or correct abnormal conditions, conduct basic troubleshooting and elevate problems appropriately.
• Participate in equipment validation and system user acceptance testing as required.
• Complete electronic batch documentation, equipment log books and other documentation relevant to the production process for all stages of production for both product and labels.
• Fluent working knowledge of relevant electronic system operations, including SAP, temperature monitoring and product stability information systems.
• Competent understanding in following the clients GMP related quality standards of relevant packaging, label authoring, printing, inspecting and logistics environments.
• Fluent understanding in the internal and external regulatory environment pertinent to clinical trials and pharmaceutical development and support internal audits and regulatory inspections.
• Competent understanding in blinding principles and conduct in‑process controls to maintain blinding integrity.
• Liaise with Quality groups to ensure appropriate approvals and chain of custody.
• Document data as dictated by current Client policies and procedures.
• Ensure that the client gets the best possible service by continually reviewing best practice in relation to both commercial and quality issues and ensuring 100% ethical work standards.
• Be aware of the client’s requirements and strive to meet or exceed those requirements keeping in mind the client process end points.
• Deal with client queries and contact designated personnel, with appropriate support from onsite leadership with minimal support.
• To ensure that the client’s requirements are fully met or exceeded and in so doing will be flexible to work in any area of the business as is required.
• Document data as dictated by current Client policies and procedures.
• Fluent with and keep up to date with any client based processes and regulatory changes, ensuring their training is complete and adjusting their work as required with approval from the Lead Scientist or client.
• To revise SOPs as required by the Lead Scientist or Client contact.

Qualifications

• Previous experience of working in a Packaging Technician role within a regulated pharmaceutical environment.
• Relevant experience in a packaging pharmaceutical experience.
• Competent experience of constructing clinical trial kits and maintaining blinding integrity.
• Fluent understanding of regulatory processes associated with conducting clinical trials.
• Experienced working in line with GMP with a competent understanding of the processes and documentation that maintain the license to operate.
• Competently navigate and work using fully electronic media, including MS Office and SAP.
• Good communication skills, both written and verbally clearly presents information to build understanding which helps to form strong working relationships with colleagues.
• Good team player, organised, accurate, have strong documentation skills.
• Good communication skills both internally and externally and avoids making mistakes that will hinder the understanding of written and verbal exchanges.
• Passionate about quality and customer.

Additional Information

At Eurofins we are growing, innovating and always learning. We celebrate the achievements of our employees through annual long service awards, recognise our colleagues special life events, and we are committed to charitable causes through global fundraising activities.

As a Eurofins employee you will benefit from:

• Reward and Recognition
• Health Cash Plan
• Life Assurance (4 times annual salary).
• Company Pension Plan
• Employee Assistance Programme – 24/7 confidential support.
• Free car parking
• Worldwide career opportunities
• Everyone who joins our team also gets access to Perkbox, allowing you to save money all year round. Whether its supermarket savings or days out, the daily coffee or a summer holiday – there’s something to suit everyone’s lifestyle.

What Happens Next

Our people are the backbone of what we do, so it's incredibly important we find the right individuals to join us. As a potential new recruit you'll be invited to meet the team in the form of an assessment centre or a staged interview process dependent on the role and its requirements, this will give you the opportunity to see what working for Eurofins is really like and enable us to get you know your key skills and strengths.

Your data

As part of any recruitment process, the company collects and processes personal data relating to job applicants. The company is committed to being transparent about how it collects and uses that data and to meeting its data protection obligations.

We embrace diversity! Eurofins network of companies believe in strength and innovation through diversity, being an Equal Opportunity Employer. We prohibit discrimination against employees or applications based on gender identity and/or expression, race, nationality, age, religion, sexual orientation, disability, and everything else that makes employees of Eurofins companies unique.

Sustainability matters to us! We are well on our way to achieving our objective of carbon neutrality by 2025, through a combination of emission reduction and compensation initiatives. We encourage our laboratory leaders to make sustainable changes at their local level, and in addition to their initiatives we also count on our dedicated carbon reduction team to help us to achieve this goal!

Find out more in our career page: https://careers.eurofins.com/