Packaging Associate

Par Health

Key Responsibilities

• Ensure segregation, storage, and movement of dispensed materials.
• Verify dispensed materials before the start of the operation.
• Perform environmental monitoring as per product specifications.
• Execute production activities in a shift by managing available resources to achieve production targets.
• Maintain standard process parameters as per BMRs, BPRs, and other supporting documents for achieving production targets and maintaining quality.
• Verify online documentation against electronic data in the PLC, including events and alarms during the process.
• Ensure verification of specified vs. actual data recording practices.
• Initiate Type A and Type B cleaning line clearances.
• Perform supervisor activities and non-process area maintenance as required.
• Minimize documentation errors on the shop floor.
• Conduct gap analysis of existing SOPs for further improvement.
• Develop multi-skilled personnel in the department for equipment operations and documentation.
• Ensure key points and decisions are regularly summarized, emphasizing the understanding of critical steps by technical staff.
• Prepare and distribute a detailed agenda before meetings, outlining key topics and objectives.
• Provide daily training to operators on CAPA, recent events, DI, GDP, and other relevant topics to boost awareness for smooth department functioning with 100% compliance.
• Maintain the area in a presentable state at all times.
• Coordinate with CFT.
• Ensure maintenance and cleanliness of critical utilities (if applicable) as per procedures.
• Ensure all manufacturing operations and related documentation are updated as per BMR, BPR, SOP, and cGMP.
• Review BMRs and BPRs.
• Responsible for Validation, Qualification, and Calibration of processes or equipment.
• Handle all QMS documentation.
• Responsible for training for new joiners, scheduled, and unscheduled department training.
• Work with production teams to ensure cost-effective, high-quality, and timely delivery of products.
• Carry out activities as assigned by supervisors, shift in-charge, and management based on company requirements.
• Monitor and minimize spillage and in-process rejection shift-wise and participate in yield improvement programs.
• Perform in-process checks in manufacturing and packing operations.
• Submit swab sample requests to QC.
• Perform BMR & BPR reconciliation, batch review, and closing.
• Retrieve executed documents for QA.
• Ensure and complete equipment and instrument calibration and MP as per the schedule.
• Ensure area fumigation activity within the timeline.
• Handle critical processes, overseeing and guiding activities such as recipe loading, binder addition, kneading, loading, AWC, and gun validation.
• Be especially vigilant during manual operations where electronic data is unavailable and witness critical activities such as granulation and sampling.
• Review and approve all master documents.
• Responsible for operational excellence, including analyzing current operational processes, identifying inefficiencies, and implementing changes to improve productivity and reduce costs.