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Pfizer Hiring for Chemical Operator (Bldg / a-p) at Kalamazoo, MI Full Time

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Why Patients Need You
Our breakthroughs would not make it to the hands of patients without our pharmaceutical manufacturing team. We rely on a team of dedicated and agile members, who understand the importance and impact of their role in Pfizer’s mission. Patients need colleagues like you who take pride in their work and always look to improve outcomes. You will help to ensure that patients and physicians have the medicines they need, when they need them.
What You Will Achieve
You will provide cleaning validations support for multiple processing areas within
API (Active Pharmaceutical Ingredients). You will be responsible for providing procedures and direction to the shop floor in order to ensure that equipment is properly cleaning and released after each campaign. You will possess strong knowledge of API equipment/technologies, API operations, SOPs (Standard Operating Procedures), GMP (Good Manufacturing Practices), standard work and focus on continuous improvement as well as strong organizational, communication, and people skills.
As part of the Technical Operations team, you are recognized as a subject matter expert and serve as on-going technical resource to the operating units, overseeing that cleaning is completed within EHS and/or GMP requirements, working to maximize production efficiency where possible. You will be entrusted with adapting standard methods and procedures by applying your knowledge, prior work experience and requirements. Your business awareness of cross-organizational impact on project delivery will elevate the quality of project deliverables. You will arrive at decisions on which methods and procedures are the best fit for different work situations. You will train others and reinforce behaviors that will help us achieve our goal of providing the best healthcare to our patients.
It is your hard work and focus that will help in making Pfizer ready to achieve new milestones and help patients across the globe.
How You Will Achieve It
  • Manage own time, professional development and be accountable for own results.
  • Prioritize own workflow and allocate work to others and assist in establishing their priorities.
  • Responsible for providing input for performance assessment on team members.
  • Maintain Pfizer standards and values for quality, safety and environmental objectives as well as meeting production goals.
  • Lead operators in assuring that all the duties required in their areas are appropriately conducted with or without supervision.
  • Help Project Managers with both in-house and contract maintenance on process equipment.
  • Learn activities and tasks associated with own role, and contribute to creative conversations {e.g., brainstorming and innovation).
  • Consistently communicates work sequence status to supervisor in a timely manner.
  • Follow procedures at all times, adopting current Good Manufacturing Practices {part of GxP} practices.
  • Interact with API and unit leadership, shop floor operators, subject matter experts across production units as well as API Specialist peers, Quality, Environment, Health & Safety colleagues and external regulatory agencies.
  • Maintain and prepare API Laboratory Equipment/supplies and consumables for production use, aligning with API unit production schedules.
Qualifications
Must-Have
  • High School Diploma or GED
  • 4 years of experience
  • Certification in assigned area, if applicable
  • Demonstrated experience in API and completion of operator training program.
  • Acquired API operations experience
  • Functional/Technical Knowledge of the discipline
  • Effective written and oral communication
  • Computer skills, such as Microsoft Applications and experience with System Application and Products
Nice-to-Have
  • Bachelor’s Degree
  • Previous fermentation experience
PHYSICAL/MENTAL REQUIREMENTS
Considerable standing, walking, climbing of stairs, lifting and moving of containers up to 25 kg. Frequent exposure to airborne particles. Must work near moving mechanical parts. The noise level in the work environment is loud. Use of hearing, hand, head, feet, eye and respiratory protection is required. 12-hour work schedule.
NON-STANDARD WORK SCHEDULE, TRAVEL OR ENVIRONMENT REQUIREMENTS
Alternating 12hr shift schedule. (5-4, 4-5, 5-5)
Work Location Assignment: On Premise
Other Job Details:
  • Last day to Apply: August 4th, 2023
  • Eligible for Relocation Assistance: NO
Relocation assistance may be available based on business needs and/or eligibility.
Sunshine Act
Pfizer s payments and other transfers of value to health care providers as required by federal and state transparency laws and implementing regulations. These laws and regulations require Pfizer to provide government agencies with information such as a health care provider’s name, address and the type of payments or other value received, generally for public disclosure. Subject to further legal review and statutory or regulatory clarification, which Pfizer intends to pursue, reimbursement of recruiting expenses for licensed physicians may constitute a able transfer of value under the federal transparency law commonly known as the Sunshine Act. Therefore, if you are a licensed physician who incurs recruiting expenses as a result of interviewing with Pfizer that we pay or reimburse, your name, address and the amount of payments made currently will be ed to the government. If you have questions regarding this matter, please do not hesitate to contact your Talent Acquisition representative.
EEO & Employment Eligibility
Pfizer is committed to equal opportunity in the terms and conditions of employment for all employees and job applicants without regard to race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, age, gender identity or gender expression, national origin, disability or veteran status. Pfizer also complies with all applicable national, state and local laws governing nondiscrimination in employment as well as work authorization and employment eligibility verification requirements of the Immigration and Nationality Act and IRCA. Pfizer is an E-Verify employer.

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