Packaging Specialist (Port Elizabeth) at Aspen Pharma Group

Overview

•  Manage and support production support activities
•  Responsible for the process and component development and equipment acquisition for new product manufacturing
•  Provide investigation and institute corrective action functions

Responsibilities
Component Investigations in Production

•  Conduct level 2 investigations related to component issues in production
•  Collaborate with the supplier packaging specialist to ensure resolution of component issues, and improve component interaction with manufacturing equipment
•  Drive process improvement and output improvement by assessing the optimizing equipment/ component interaction
• Suspect Block Form (SBF) Process
•  Conduct suspect stock investigations
•  Decide whether to reject packaging stock
•  Complete the relevant forms and inform internal personnel and external suppliers

Internal Customer Complaints

•  Receive, address, resolve and respond to complaints/ concerns related to packaging
•  Escalate the complaints if unable to resolve

Packaging Engineering

•  Conduct packaging trials
•  Conduct tooling design; indicate the manufacturing components and machines needed for production
•  Track and trace the passage of prescription drugs through the entire supply chain (Serialisation)

Asset/ Resource Coordination

•  Provide input into required changes in own resources
•  Request and allocate required assets and resources for the fulfilment of work objectives
•  Monitor the use of assets and resources within own area of responsibility

Technical Expertise

•  Propose changes or improvements to management on processes, tools, techniques, and products
•  Provide expert advice for issues experienced by internal stakeholders

Requirements
Background/experience

•  6 or more years’ experience in the pharmaceutical industry
•  Minimum of a National Diploma in Electrical/ Mechanical Engineering or similar

Specific job skills

•  Project control and development

Competencies

•  Innovative Thinking
•  Making Decisions
•  Meeting Deadlines
•  Working in Teams