Our Lead Compounding Technician and Trainer plays a vital role in ensuring the highest quality and safety standards of our pharmaceutical products. Once you complete our training, your responsibilities will include coordinating and where appropriate delivering new employee orientation, preparing individual training plans, monitoring progress against individual training plans, assuring subject matter experts/qualified trainers are available to support on the job training, tracking and assuring required training documentation is obtained, proposing effective methods of training and performing verification and effectiveness checks in conjunction with completion of individual training plans and providing counsel and recommending enhancement to training plans and processes. This position is responsible for compounding sterile preparations as per work instructions, trains compounding technicians on-site in the clean room and bulk formulations in mixing rooms on compounding operations and documenting training and communicates any deficiencies to the Operations Management. Turn your passion for precision and your commitment to quality into a meaningful impact on healthcare across the US.
This is a full-time role for our 3rd shift, working Monday through Friday 10:00 PM to 6:30 AM. This is a set, consistent schedule with minimum overtime requirements and based on site in our Bloomsbury location. This is a safety sensitive position that may be subject to random drug testing, in accordance with applicable laws.
What The Lead Compounding Technician and Trainer Does Each Day:
- Complies with all state and federal laws, rules, and regulations
- Coaches compounders to always utilize correct and appropriate aseptic techniques
- Compounds all required types of sterile preparations accurately and in compliance with master worksheets
- Operates all compounding equipment accurately and according to policy and procedure
- Support disinfection of materials prior to transporting into ISO 7 Room (Clean Room) and to manufacturing hoods
- Performs and oversees cleaning of the clean room areas thoroughly and according to policy
- Assists in conducting initial and ongoing training of new employees with completion of required documentation
- Ensures advanced complex media fill qualifications are performed on employees as required
- Oversees activities of other compounding technicians in compounding and routine activities
- Maintains a high degree of productivity within recommended guidelines
- Serve as a Subject Matter Expert
- Assists other pharmacy technicians and/or staff as necessary, including other areas of the operation
- Conducts oneself in a professional manner and continually strive to improve efficiency
- Demonstrates thorough knowledge of the job, completing all annual competencies and skills validations
- Passes all initial and on-going validations and advanced complex media-fill qualifications
- Tracks and ensure status of compounder qualifications for initial garbing and aseptic processes and annual gowning and aseptic process re-qualification
- Effectively integrates knowledge into the job and continuously attains new knowledge
- Maintains accurate records of all assignments
- Cooperates with team members to accomplish departmental goals
- Ensures timely completion of batch record documentation, manufacturing operations logs, cleaning logs, comply with safety requirements, current Good Manufacturing Practices (21CFR210 and 211), Good Documentation Practices (GDPs), company policies and procedures
- Communicates effectively to Operations, Quality and other functional support staff
- Arrives at work as scheduled and notifies supervisors in a timely manner of any absences
- Recognizes priorities and acts; makes productive use of time
- Supports manufacturing operations as needed
Our Most Successful Lead Compounding Technician And Trainer
- Has a sense of urgency, accountability and resourcefulness
- Advances continuous improvement programs and transformation initiatives
- Has experience in managing business improvement projects within a Supply Chain and Procurement environment
- Is proficient in stakeholder management, interacting effectively with various levels of leadership internally and externally
- Manages multiple projects at once with demonstrated project management skills
- Has a strong understanding of procurement processes, systems, and tools
- Has excellent analytical skills, strong negotiation skills, and are capable of engaging suppliers at executive level
- Understands how various issues affect each other and the outcome of projects; Improves upon existing approaches by seeking opportunities to creatively transform
Minimum Requirements For This Role - A High School diploma or equivalent
- Able to successfully complete a drug and background check
- Able and willing to walk, stoop, stand, bend, and lift up to 50 lbs. throughout each shift, with or without reasonable accommodation
- 18+ years of age
- Familiarity with and comfortable using mobile devices such as smartphones, tablets, handhelds
- Able and willing to follow “garb and gown” requirements from head to toe in order to maintain a sterile, clean room environment. This includes:
- Hand washing
- Wearing hair net, shoe covers, facemask, sterile gown, and gloves, etc.
- Stringent regulations concerning, for example, the carrying of cellphones, the wearing of jewelry and makeup, and the length / type of fingernails
- 3 years of direct IV compounding experience
- Must be currently authorized to work in the United States on a full-time basis; Quva is not able to sponsor applicants for work visas
Any Of The Following Will Give You An Edge
- PTCB Certification (CPhT)
- ACPE Sterile Certification
- Registered as a Pharmacy Technician in the posting state
- 3 years cGMP Pharmaceutical Manufacturing experience a plus
Benefits Of Working At Quva
- Comprehensive health and wellness benefits including medical, dental and vision
- 401k retirement program with company match
- A minimum of 17 paid days off plus 8 paid holidays per year
- National, industry-leading high growth company with future career advancement opportunities
About Quva
Quva provides industry-leading health-system pharmacy services and solutions, including 503B sterile injectable outsourcing services and AI-based data software solutions that help power the business of pharmacy. Quva Pharma’s multiple production facilities and industry-first dedicated remote distribution capabilities provide ready-to-administer sterile injectable medicines critical to patient care. Quva BrightStream partners with health systems to aggregate, normalize, and analyze large amounts of complex data across their sites of care, and through proprietary machine learning, transforms data into actionable insights supporting revenue optimization, script capture, inventory management, drug shortage control, and more. Quva’s overall progressive and integrated platform helps health-systems transform pharmacy management to achieve greater value and deliver highest-quality patient care.
Quva is an equal opportunity employer and is committed to creating and maintaining a work environment that is free from all forms of discrimination and harassment. Quva's Equal Opportunity Policy prohibits harassment or discrimination due to age, ancestry, color, disability, gender, gender expression, gender identity, genetic information, marital status, medical condition, military or veteran status, national origin, race, religious creed, sex (including pregnancy, childbirth, breastfeeding, and any related medical conditions), sexual orientation, and any other characteristic or classification protected by applicable laws. All employment with Quva is “at will.”
