Would you like to be part of a company that has the courage, innovation, and capability to improve and enhance patient lives across the globe? A growing and innovative company based in Waterford, Eirgen Pharma develops and supplies specialty care medicines to patients in more than 50 countries worldwide. Our guiding principle is to improve and enhance the lives of patients, whether they be reached directly or through our contract manufacturing and development customers across the pharmaceutical industry.
Eirgen’s Waterford campus consists of a state-of-the-art and globally-accredited manufacturing environment which provides tableting, capsule, soft gel manufacturing and packaging capabilities. Our R&D Team accommodates our development and analytical scientists working on the next generation of treatments for the company and its clients.
About the Job
In this role you will have responsibility for operational activities, to ensure maximum production quality and quantity, while supporting the policies, goals and objectives of Eirgen.
Current shift is 24/5 but please note this may change
You will be responsible for:
- GMP Manufacture / pack of commercial and development batches of oral solid dose medicine in tablet and capsule format (including liquid fill, powder fill, soft gel technologies), ensuring all work carried out is in compliance with the required standards conforming to company cGxP, SOPs, regulatory and safety & environmental directives and guidelines.
- Working with the production team to maintain campaign schedule adherence through readiness preparation, on-time start and slippage recovery during campaign.
- Checking own work and that of others for accuracy ensuring best possible right first time compliance.
- Constantly reviewing and monitoring production and quality of production batches, anticipating and solving problems in a timely manner, and identifying opportunities for improvement.
- Identifying and making recommendations for improvements as part of a team - within or outside the department - in order to ensure continuous improvement.
- Participating in projects that improve efficiency and / or reduce operating costs.
- Proactively contributing to in-production incident investigations.
- Actively participating in Tiered accountability meetings.
- Communicating directly with the maintenance personnel to coordinate maintenance and repair work in manufacturing areas.
- Performing preventative maintenance activities as required.
- Assisting with diagnosing and trouble-shooting maintenance related issues and support maintenance technicians in performing maintenance and repairs.
- Performing and reviewing TOC Analyser testing on Purified Water as required.
- Ensuring full compliance in relation to own training metrics.
- Carrying out duties in a safe manner while ensuring own safety as well as that of co-workers and company property.
- Proactively reporting and where possible taking immediate corrective action on any observed unsafe behaviour or condition.
- Performing additional team tasks as agreed to support effective running of the Business.
About you
You are qualified to a minimum of leaving cert level and ideally have experience working in a similar role in a GMP regulated environment.
You possess strong attention to detail, work effectively on your own as well as with others and have excellent written & verbal communication skills. You take pride in and are passionate about your work.
You will draw from many skills including adaptability, planning, multi-tasking and time management that are required to be part of a high-performance team. You have the ability to form positive relationships and enjoy collaborating, gaining knowledge, continuous improvement and solving problems. Ideally you have knowledge of Microsoft products including, Excel, Word & Power Point.
Working at Eirgen – What to expect
At Eirgen, we have developed a diverse and inclusive, people-centric, high performance culture where people are enabled to achieve their potential.
If you are working at Eirgen, then we think you’ve got something special. Our employees are high-performing and work as part of a cohesive team. They are dedicated people who are driven to succeed and are rewarded with competitive salaries and an attractive range of benefits including flexible working, well-being initiatives, opportunities for career progression and support for continuing education and development.
Apply for the above role by sending your up to date CV to opportunities@eirgen.com including the job title in the subject.