Website Aspen Pharma Group
Aspen focuses on marketing and manufacturing a broad range of post-patent, branded medicines and domestic brands covering both hospital and consumer markets through our key business segments. Our key business segments are Manufacturing and Commercial Pharmaceuticals comprising Regional Brands and Sterile Focus Brands.
Aspen has a proud heritage dating back more than 160 years and is committed to sustaining life and promoting healthcare through increasing access to its high quality affordable medicines and products. Aspen has a market capitalisation of approximately US$10 billion.
Description
- Monitor manufacturing compliance to GMP and statutory requirements
- Monitor adherence to guidelines, procedures, and document controls
- Deliver expected productivity targets as per business requirements
- Related administrative tasks
- Serve as back up to Team Leader on shift
Requirements
Planning and Procedures
- Plan and prioritize daily, weekly, and monthly activities
- Determine, request, and use resources/ assets optimally
- Inspections and Verifications
- Verify schedule 5 products
- Verify certified clean status of rooms and equipment
- Verify, review, and approve verification of measuring equipment performance, calibrations, and sampling, and dispensing of materials
- Line & Production processing
- Perform, review, and approve line sign on’s, closures and clearance authorizations
- Perform, review, and approve batch reconciliations to product specifications and quality
- Ensure production process adherence to standards and specifications
- Process and system improvements
- Manage, review, and approve change control programs and deviations/ concessions comply to standards and specifications
- Manage and resolve customer complaints
- Optimize processes and identify gaps in policies/ procedures
- Drive CAPA investigations in area of focus
- Compliance & Auditing
- Perform and review shift GMP checks, environmental checks, and agent expiry dates, and ensure continued compliance
- Verify good document practice as per SOP and regulation
- Verify the identity of bulk product and printed packaging materials, and conduct intermix checks to assess uniformity
- Verify IPCs are in line with product quality and specifications
- Review and approve preliminary batch records
- Audit logbooks and systems
- Troubleshooting
- Investigate deviations and concessions, and assess risk
- Raise deviations and implement corrective action
- Raise maintenance notifications as and when required
- Training and technical expertise
- Train new Pharmacists and PMAs on SOPs in transition period
- Identify refresher or awareness training needs
- Administration & Record keeping
- Complete batch records and labels
- Complete deviation forms as required
- Query documents and sign off declarations
- Perform and verify calculations in BMR
- Maintain and update records and systems as required
- Retrieve supporting documentation and records to facilitate and support query resolution
Skills Required
Background/experience
- Minimum of bachelor’s degree preferred, ideally in Pharmacy
- 1-3 years’ related work experience
- Pharmaceutical manufacturing experience
- Registration with Pharmacy Council
- Specific job skills
- Comprehensive knowledge of pharmaceutical manufacturing, standards, and compliance requirements
- Ability to interpret and implement policies, processes, and objectives
Competencies
- Information gathering
- Interrogating information
- Meeting deadlines
- Finalizing output
- Taking action