Set-Up Tech (1st Shift)

As a Set-up Technician crewed to any line, this position is responsible for leading and sustaining a line by performing equipment change-over technical services and supportive line duties, such as Packaging Operator or as needed line personnel , as needed, following SOPs and cGMPs. The Set-up Technician carries out product, size, and machine tooling changes to accommodate components, adjusts machinery and equipment to ensure efficient operation, and resolves problems while product is running. 

At Padagis our focus is on health care products that improve people’s lives. We are experts on extended topical products and are strategically investing to expand our #1 position in the extended topical category in the United States. Our team members, numbering more than 1,300 work in a dynamic environment where opportunity is built on a foundation of honesty and transparency. Join our team where great things are happening and you can make a difference.

Essential Duties:

• Monitor equipment while running to assure optimal throughput.
• Provide line personnel with guidance on how to operate the equipment.
• Basic knowledge of Packaging equipment to ensure minor troubleshooting and correct issues.
• Inform engineering maintenance technician and Supervisor of potential equipment issues/failures.
• Disassemble/Assemble filling/packaging equipment as necessary.
• Set Lot/Batch numbers and expiration date base on customer order.
• Tool must be organized and clean and free of unnecessary parts.
• Keep and maintain working area clean.
• Perform equipment cleaning by dismantle and assemble equipment according to Equipment cleaning SOP in a specified time of execution. Example, filling equipment, transfer pumps, etc.

Additional Responsibilities of the Position Include:

• Must be able to work different working schedule as deemed by business necessity.
• Must be able to work extra hours with advance or no advance notification deemed by business needs.
• Must be able to read and write in English and fill out paper work.
• Ensure components have been checked by Supervisor and QA personnel before equipment set up.
• Coordinate routine maintenance and perform minor repairs together with maintenance personnel.
• Support and lead process improvement initiatives.
• Document activities in Area/Equipment Log Book.
• Document major activities in In-process Control Form.
• Notify Supervisor, Shift Lead and/or Engineering Maintenance Technician when equipment is ready.

Requirements: HS Diploma or GED and two years packaging experience required.

Additional Position Requirements & Knowledge on the following equipment is preferred:

• Pace unscrambler
• Accraply labeler
• Optel Vision System
• Cobot palletizer
• Checkweigher (Alpha, Mettler Toledo)
• Cartoner (Marchesini, Serpa)
• Mar Liquid filler
• Mar Powder filler
• Swiftpharm Tablet filler
• Eclipse liquid filler
• Sarong Suppository filler
• Tonazzi Tube filler