Senior Packaging Technician

Ferring Pharmaceuticals; Glasgow; On-site; GBP 30,000 - 40,000; Full time

Job summary

A leading biopharmaceutical company in Glasgow seeks a Senior Technician for its Packaging team. This full-time, permanent role involves supervising packaging operations and ensuring quality documentation. Ideal candidates should possess excellent attention to detail, organisational skills, and leadership abilities. Full training will be provided to those with relevant skills. The company offers competitive benefits including a global bonus plan and enhanced pension contributions.

Benefits

Ferring Global Bonus Plan

Annual merit review

Enhanced employer’s pension contribution (up to 8%)

25 days’ annual leave plus 9 bank holidays

Private medical and dental care plans

Qualifications

• Experience in a regulated environment is preferred, however, if you have the above skills, full training will be given.

Responsibilities

• Supervise the operations of the packaging processes.
• Participate in all aspects of manufacturing process operations.
• Responsible for quality documentation and batch record review.
• Lead safety, health, and environment policy rules.

Skills

Attention to detail

Ability to follow written instructions

Organisational skills

Effective team leadership

Quality mindset

Experience in a regulated environment

Job description

Job Description

We have an exciting opening for a Senior Technician in our Packaging team, or people with a similar experience or transferrable skillset, ready for a new challenge. This is a full-time permanent position, based on site and working on a rotational shift basis.

Ferring Controlled Therapeutics is a pharmaceutical manufacturing and research & development subsidiary of Ferring Pharmaceuticals, located in East Kilbride. Having recently acquired an additional site, the organisation is experiencing an exciting phase of growth and opportunity.

The successful candidate will be given full training to join our existing team responsible for manufacturing products in the reproductive medicine category. Our mission is to build healthy families and help people live better lives.

Key Responsibilities

• Perform/Drive some activities, supervise the operations of the packaging processes.
• Participate in all aspects of manufacturing process operations.
• Responsible for the quality of documentation along with the production processes including batch record review
• Respect and lead the Safety, Health and Environment Policy rules.
• Participate in improvement initiatives to increase efficiency of work processes.
• Manage all people processes, Performance management and absence management.

Preferred Skills

• Excellent attention to detail and accuracy
• Ability to follow written instructions
• Good organisational skills and ability to meet deadlines
• Effective team leader
• Quality mindset
• Experience in a regulated environment is preferred, however, if you have the above skills, full training will be given

Required Competencies

• Ethics & values
• Integrity & trust
• Problem solving
• Accountability, Collaboration and Entrepreneurship

What you get in return:

’People come first at Ferring’. We offer you support to help you succeed in your new role with coaching and development from onboarding onwards, and opportunities to progress your career. In addition, to reward you for your hard work you’ll get:

• Ferring Global Bonus Plan
• Annual merit review
• Enhanced employer’s pension contribution (up to 8%)
• 25 days’ annual leave, plus 9 bank holidays
• Early, Day and Late shifts (rotation)
• Enhanced Maternity & Paternity Policy
• Private medical and dental care plans
• There will be no relocation allowance for this role

About us:

Ferring Pharmaceuticals is a research-driven, specialty biopharmaceutical group active in global markets. Headquartered in Switzerland, Ferring is a leader in reproductive medicine and women’s health, and in specialty areas within gastroenterology and urology. Ferring has been developing treatments for mothers and babies for over 50 years and has a portfolio covering treatments from conception to birth. Founded in 1950, privately-owned Ferring now employs over 6,000 people worldwide, has its own operating subsidiaries I nearly 60 countries and markets its products in 110 countries.

Location:

Ferring Controlled Therapeutics UK