Production Operator

Ethypharm Group; Romford; On-site; GBP 31,000; Full time

Job summary

Join a forward-thinking international pharmaceutical company as a Production Operator, where your role is vital in producing high-quality medicines focused on pain management and critical care. You will work in a state-of-the-art facility, ensuring compliance with Good Manufacturing Practices while collaborating with a dedicated team. This position offers a structured environment with opportunities for professional growth and a competitive salary, including shift allowances. If you are detail-oriented and passionate about making a difference in patients' lives, this is the perfect opportunity for you.

Benefits

25 days annual leave

Opportunity to buy/sell additional leave

Tiered performance-based salary increase

Medicash health cash plan

Salary Sacrifice scheme for electric vehicles

Pension Plan with 5% employer contribution

Wellbeing and benefits platform

Business bonus scheme (3% of salary)

Qualifications

• Knowledge of cGMP and experience in a structured environment is essential.
• Experience in pharmaceutical manufacturing is desirable but not mandatory.

Responsibilities

• Produce high-quality pharmaceutical products adhering to cGMP standards.
• Conduct thorough quality control checks to ensure product safety.

Skills

cGMP knowledge

Attention to detail

Communication skills

Manual handling

Good hygiene practice

Education

GCSE or equivalent

Tools

Microsoft Word

Microsoft Excel

Microsoft Outlook

SAP

Job description

Salary up to £30026 including 31% shift allowance

Daily Work Times: Sunday to Thursday Nightshift 10.00 p.m. - 6:00 a.m.

Basic Hours Per Week: 37.50

Production Operator

(Location: Bampton Road, Romford, Essex, United Kingdom)

What you will do:
As a Production Operator within the Orals team, you will produce high quality pharmaceutical products with a focus on the treatment of pain, addiction and critical care, whilst ensuring that all activities within the production area are conducted in adherence to established standards of Good Manufacturing Practice (cGMP).

Your key responsibilities include:

• Complete batch manufacturing records with accuracy, neatness, and integrity to always ensure compliance
• Follow detailed GMP working instructions and guidelines to produce high-quality products
• Collaborate effectively with team members to ensure batch-to-batch tasks are completed efficiently, minimising downtime.
• Perform thorough quality control checks at various stages of the process to uphold product and patient safety
• Undertake gowning process to enter the cleanroom safely and to GMP Regulations
• Preparing the area & sanitising equipment for use in the production of sterile or aseptic products
• Maintaining the cleanroom environment by following strict guidelines and SOP’s
• Combine pharmaceutical ingredients together to make a bulk solution ready for filling
• Depending on product type, sterilise the product using specialist equipment (autoclave)

This role is critical to ensuring that products meet quality standards and are delivered safely to end users.

Individuals will be required to wear cleanroom garments and a one-piece suit as well as PPE including powered respirators.

Due to the nature of the environment candidates must be able to stand for extended periods of time. Manual handling is required.

Individuals must demonstrate good hygiene practice and apply their training to minimise the risk of contamination.

About you:
Our ideal candidate will have knowledge of cGMP and experience working in the pharmaceutical or a similar industry, although full training will be provided. The successful candidate will be process driven, with a keen eye for detail and excellent communication skills.

Basic qualifications and skills:

• Educated to GCSE (or equivalent) level
• Experience of working within a process driven/structured environment
• Experience of Microsoft packages (Word, Excel, Outlook)
• Experience of operating machinery
• Experience within Manufacturing, Food, Production and Hospital
• Experience working in a pharmaceutical manufacturing environment (desirable)
• Experience of using SAP (desirable)
• Knowledge of health and safety standards required in a production environment
• Good understanding of cGMP within a manufacturing environment (desirable)

Personal qualities:
The ideal candidate should be methodical, adaptable, reliable, and a positive team player, with a strong technical mindset and the ability to work in a fast-paced environment.

What we offer you:

• £30,026 per annum including a 31% shift allowance
• Opportunity to increase salary through a tiered performance-based system
• 25 days annual leave, plus bank holidays with an opportunity to buy or sell up to an additional 5 days
• Holidays rising to 30 days with length of service
• Eligible to participate in the Company’s Business bonus scheme with a potential earning of 3% of salary
• Wellbeing and benefits platform
• Medicash - health cash plan
• Salary Sacrifice scheme - electric vehicles with Tusker (dependent on meeting policy eligibility)
• Pension Plan - employer contribution of 5%

Working hours information:

• 37.5 hours per week, Monday – Friday, working early and late shifts, which will rotate on a weekly basis
• Early shift: 6am - 2pm
• Late shift: 2pm - 10pm

Ethypharm is a leading mid-sized international pharmaceutical company, with strong European roots, that manufactures and provides essential medicines, with a focus on hospital care, central nervous system (severe pain and addiction) and internal medicine.

Ethypharm has 1,700 employees dedicated to its various pharmaceutical activities, of which 1400 are in industrial operations. Our six production sites located in France, the UK, Spain, and China have expertise in injectables and complex oral solid forms.

At Ethypharm, you will be a part of a team dedicated and committed to improving patients’ lives.

Our Romford facility is located 20 miles from the centre of London and consists of over 6700 square metres of a high-quality, modern pharmaceutical facility where we mix, fill, sterilise, inspect, pack, and label a wide range of medicines.

At Ethypharm we recognise the value of diversity in the workplace and provide equal opportunities for all. We are always open to discussing flexible working arrangements where this meets with the needs of our business.

If you are passionate about being a Production Operator, we'd love to hear from you—contact us today!