Pharmaceutical Production Specialist — Compression & Encapsulation

Advance your career in drug product manufacturing

Join Adare’s Manufacturing Operations team and help deliver essential medicines. Reporting to a Shift Supervisor, you’ll operate across core OSD processes and expand your skills through structured cross-training.

What you will do

• Set up dispensing areas per SOPs and Batch Manufacturing Records (BMRs); maintain accurate logbooks and paperwork.
• Dispense and issue raw materials per SOP/BMR; verify approvals, expiry, and retest dates; record issuance in Production Batch Records and inventory systems.
• Clean rooms and equipment (mills, mixers, ovens, granulators, encapsulation and compression equipment) to SOP standards.
• Operate granulation and blending equipment to specified parameters.
• Run coating operations using Coating Pans (Accela Cota, Compulab) and dust collection systems.
• Compress and encapsulate product per BMR; operate encapsulation equipment.
• Operate tablet compression assets: Kilian S520, Syntheses 500, tablet presses, drum lifters, dedusters, metal detectors, scales, micrometers, hardness testers, printers, and inspection machines.
• Follow cGMP, documentation, gowning, and Safety Policies at all times; maintain clean, audit-ready work areas.
• Complete required training; wear respiratory protection when required (medical clearance needed).
• Perform additional duties as assigned and support the team schedule.

What you bring

• High School diploma or GED.
• Minimum 1 year of experience working under GMP.
• Computer literacy for training and equipment/control interfaces; strong written and verbal communication.
• Math proficiency with whole numbers, fractions, and decimals.
• Comfort presenting to small groups (customers or company employees).
• Ability to interpret and execute detailed instructions from written, oral, or diagram sources using sound judgment.

Physical requirements

Physical Demands

•The physical demands 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.

• Frequent sitting, hand use, and reaching; occasional standing, walking, stooping, kneeling, crouching, or crawling; regular talking and hearing.
• Ability to routinely lift/move up to 30 lbs and meet vision needs for close, color, and peripheral vision, depth perception, and focus adjustment.

Growth & culture

• Cross-train across dispensing, granulation, blending, coating, compression, and encapsulation as you demonstrate proficiency.
• Make a measurable impact supporting global drug development and commercial manufacturing.

EEO

Adare Pharma is an equal opportunity employer & prohibits unlawful discrimination based on race, color, religion, gender, sexual orientation, gender identity/expression, national origin/ancestry, age, disability, marital & veteran status.