Inspection & Packaging Operator

Overview

Job Description Inspection & Packaging Operator in Albuquerque, NM. Build your future at Curia, where our work has the power to save lives. Curia is a global contract development and manufacturing organization (CDMO) with over 30 years of experience partnering with pharmaceutical and biotech companies to provide life-saving treatments to patients. At Curia, we are on a mission to advance our customers’ therapies from curiosity to cure and ultimately to improve patients’ lives.

We proudly offer

• Generous benefit options (eligible first day of employment)
• Paid training, vacation and holidays (vacation accrual begins on first day of employment)
• Career advancement opportunities
• Education reimbursement
• 401K program with matching contributions
• Learning platform
• And more!

• Complete logs and paperwork to reconcile product and label quantities with packaging batch records before initiating production.
• Perform labeling, packaging in cartons, and shrink-wrap processes with precision, ensuring correct labeling and placement of products in cartons with inserts.
• Assist in maintaining department cleanliness on a daily basis.
• Input metric data into the computer system as necessary to monitor the production process.
• Participate in the safety spill team after completing specialized training and certification.
• Adhere to safety procedures and cGMPs (current Good Manufacturing Practices).
• Obtain line clearance from quality assurance and prepare products for production.
• Clean and inspect vials for defects such as glass particles, dirty vials, and improper seals.
• Conduct audits of inspected vials to ensure process compliance.
• Categorize and document defective vials during inspection, following proper procedures.
• Perform media inspections to identify atypical vials.
• Collect samples of defective vials for laboratory testing.
• Label chemicals and reagents accurately.
• Stay updated with all relevant Standard Operating Procedures (SOPs) related to the job.
• Maintain the ability to stand or sit for extended periods as required by task demands.

• High school diploma or general education degree (GED)
• Six (6) months related experience in production, inspection, and packaging, or related field, preferred

This job has no supervisory responsibilities.

Ability to read and interpret documents such as safety instructions, standard operating procedures, policies, and manuals. Ability to write clearly and communicate effectively before groups of customers, employees or the organization and auditors.

• Mathematical
  
  Skills:
  
  Ability to add, subtract, multiply and divide into all units of measure, using whole numbers, common fractions, decimals and percentages. Ability to draw and interpret bar graphs.
• Computer
  
  Skills:
  
  Skilled in Microsoft Word, Excel, Outlook, and Access. Ability to quickly adapt and learn new manufacturing software systems.
• Other
  
  Skills and Abilities:
  
  Fosters a collaborative and positive work environment; champions change; promotes a safe and healthy work environment by actively identifying and addressing potential hazards, following established safety protocols, participating in safety training programs, and fostering a culture of awareness and responsibility among team members; demonstrates strong attention to detail; visual acuity, depth perception, and color requirements.

• Must pass a background check
• Must pass a drug screen
• May be required to pass Occupational Health Screening
• Must pass annual vision test

The physical demands described here are representative of those that must be met by an employee to successfully perform the essential functions of this job. Reasonable accommodations may be made to enable individuals with disabilities to perform the essential functions. All positions may require regular or occasional lifting, pushing and pulling up to 10 pounds, frequently; up to 25 pounds occasionally;

and up to 50 pounds infrequently. Additionally, all positions entail regular sitting, standing and reaching, with some roles requiring prolonged periods of time for each activity. Visual acuity, both close and distant,…