PHARMACEUTICAL LOGISTICS TECHNICIAN | GMP SCIENCE

Thentic; Melbourne; On-site; AUD 65,000 - 70,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

65–70k AUD base salary

13% super

On-call pay: $40/day

5% discretionary bonus

World-class facility

Job summary

GMP Science is seeking a Pharmaceutical Logistics Technician to manage inbound and outbound clinical trial medicines at a highly regulated 3PL depot. You will relabel, quality-check, and prepare cold-chain shipments for hospitals, research labs, and clinical sites.

Working within GMP procedures, you’ll store, label and release products while maintaining strict documentation and temperature controls across multiple environments. Training and on-call coverage are part of the role.

Qualifications

• Pharma, healthcare or GMP-related background preferred.
• Experience or exposure to logistics/warehousing is ideal.
• Physically capable of lifting up to 20 kg when needed.

Responsibilities

• Coordinate inbound and outbound clinical trial medicines.
• Relabel items for storage and designation.
• Follow GMP processes for shipments and keep accurate documentation.
• Handle medicines across different temperature ranges (+15-25°C, +2-8°C, and -20°C to -30°C).
• Train others on GMP processes as needed.

Skills

Pharma

GMP environments

Logistics

Warehousing

Detail-oriented

SOPs

Communication

MS Office

Calm under pressure

Physical capability

Tools

MS Office

Job description

PHARMACEUTICAL LOGISTICS TECHNICIAN | GMP SCIENCE

This is working with a major partner in the clinical trial, pharmaceutical, and medicine logistics industry. Operating from advanced, temperature-regulated facilities across Australia - and backed by a strong international presence, they provide vital storage and transport solutions for high-value medicines, vaccines, and GMP research-based products.

They work hand-in-hand with hospitals, clinics, universities and scientific institutions, ensuring essential medicines are held and delivered safely and reliably. With multiple industry accolades and a stellar reputation, this organisation is synonymous with quality, care, and innovation.

Despite their global scale, they’ve kept a people-first approach at their core. The team environment is supportive and down-to-earth, with a strong emphasis on it's people, growth and development. Many employees join for the mission and stay for the culture.

Position:

This Pharmaceutical Logistics Technician (internally called a Clinical Operations Tech) will be dealing with incoming and outgoing of clinical trial medicines at the highly regulated 3PL pharmaceutical depot and warehouse. You’ll be hands-on with relabelling, quality control, and cold-chain shipment prep for critical medicine moving across hospitals, research labs, and clinical sites.

You’ll be part of the ops team helping to ensure temperature-sensitive products are stored, labelled, and released correctly-following exact procedures and keeping everything compliant with GMP standards.

Duties include:

• Coordinating inbound and outbound clinical trial medicines
• Relabelling items to be put away in their designation
• Following GMP processes for outbound/inbound shipments
• Entering cold rooms at times to collect or put away medicines
• Ensuring correct documentation, packaging and product temperatures
• Handling orders across +15-25°C, +2-8°C, and -20°C to -30°C environments
• Manually packing shipments in cold boxes with care and accuracy
• Working closely with team leaders, operations managers and pharmacists
• Following SOPs and quality procedures to the letter
• Training others on systems and GMP processes as needed
• Once every 8 weeks hold the on-call phone for that week (precautionary only, on call phone rarely alerted or queried)

The benefits:

• $65,000 - $70,000 base salary + 13% super
• Plus $40/day when you have the on-call phone (once every 8 weeks for 7 days)
• 5% discretionary bonus based on performance
• Join a global leader with internal pathways to grow
• Full training and ongoing upskilling
• Supportive, people-first culture
• Long-term job security
• World-class facility and tech

The experience you need:

You’ll ideally come from a pharmaceutical or science background, exposure to clinical trials is an advantage but not essential. Having knowledge of compliance, labelling, and exposure to industrial environments or depot/warehouse logistics is ideal. This is a detail-focused, hands-on role that suits someone reliable, accurate, and comfortable in fast-paced settings.

Summary of ideal background:

• Ideally experience in pharma, healthcare, science, or GMP environments
• Ideally exposure or experience to in logistics or warehousing
• Physically capable of lifting up to 20kg when needed
• Detail-focused with a strong understanding of SOPs
• Clear communicator - both written and verbal
• Tech-savvy, especially in Microsoft Office
• Calm, responsive, and reliable under pressure

PR or Citizenship is needed due to security for this role.