Are you interested in an excellent new opportunity to grow your skills in pharmaceutical manufacturing? If that is a yes, this exciting role might just be your reality!

At AstraZeneca, we are an equal opportunity employer that puts patients first and strive to meet their unmet needs worldwide. Working here means being entrepreneurial, a team leader, thinking big, and working together to make the impossible a reality.

Welcome to Coppell, Texas, one of over 400 sites here at AstraZeneca, providing a collaborative environment where everyone feels comfortable and able to be themselves is at the core of AstraZeneca’s priorities, it’s important to us that you bring your full self to work every day. The Lokelma ® Supply Site (LSS) has recently remodeled office space to provide a pleasant office environment to support varying work styles and collaboration needs. LSS has an on-site café with a selection of snacks and refrigerated grab-and-go items for purchase. Additionally, the site offers a food delivery service through Foodsby, allowing employees to purchase food from a variety of local restaurants to be delivered to the site, which currently includes a discounted price for LSS employees.

As a Sr. Operator, you will be a member of the Manufacturing team contribute through performing varying tasks related to the ongoing manufacture of high quality active pharmaceutical ingredients including the drafting of manufacturing documents. Responsible for performing a variety of large-scale API manufacturing tasks (weighing and dispensing of chemicals, chemical reactions at high temperature and pressures, mixing, filtering, drying, and packaging) and activities to achieve a prescribed level of purity, quality, and consistency in product and work output.

What you will do:

• Perform process manufacturing tasks including operation of large scale equipment, weighing, measuring, monitoring of raw materials to assure batches contain proper ingredients, quantities, and process outputs

• Perform in-process testing as specified within manufacturing documentation.

• Identify and inform the supervisor of equipment malfunctions or process outputs that do not meet expected outcomes. May perform trouble-shooting of equipment or process problems and recommend solutions

• Maintain manufacturing areas to identified standards of cleanliness and neatness; may involve sweeping, mopping floors, wiping down equipment, and appropriately disposing of trash.

• Operate electric and manual hand or fork trucks as required to properly move and store chemicals and products.

• Complete SAP for assigned work, and follows up on SAP issues (shift to shift and/or SAP Global Team).

• Lead, participate, and reinforce LEAN principles within Manufacturing.

• Lead daily meetings as required, and assign job assignments/train responsibilities daily.

• Raise issues to appropriate departments (Maintenance, Metrology, QA, Process Facilitator).

• Lead the Process-Centric Organization (PCO) Team, passionate about completing training deficiencies.

Essentials:

Education:

• High School Diploma or GED

Required:

• Minimum of three years of experience in a cGMP pharmaceutical environment.

• Individual must possess mechanical aptitude and the ability to work with hands and tools to operate and perform minor maintenance on equipment.

• Ability to operate basic electronic equipment and possess basic computer skills, follow directions, both written and verbal, perform assigned tasks independently, and be able to read, write, and understand English.

• Requires understanding of basic math to perform mathematical calculations. Ability to wear a half-face respirator where needed.

• Capable of lifting and carrying weight up to 50 pounds.

• Ability to crawl, climb, twist torso, and stand for long periods of time. May be required to push/pull equipment or materials up to 700 lbs (on a roller).

• Reliable attendance and the ability to work flexible hours, including weekends and overtime as needed, is required.

Desired:

• College course work in science

• Compounding experience​

Why AstraZeneca?

At AstraZeneca when we see an opportunity for change, we seize it and make it happen, because any opportunity no matter how small, can be the start of something big. Delivering life-changing medicines is about being entrepreneurial - finding those moments and recognizing their potential. Join us on our journey of building a new kind of organization to reset expectations of what a bio-pharmaceutical company can be. This means we’re opening new ways to work, groundbreaking cutting edge methods, and bringing unexpected teams together. Interested? Come and join our journey.

Next Steps – Apply today!

Are you ready to bring new ideas and fresh thinking to the table? We have one seat available, and we hope it’s yours. Curious to know more, then please complete the full application on our website at your earliest convenience – it is the only way that our Recruiter and Hiring Manager can know that you feel well-qualified for this opportunity. Know someone who would be a phenomenal fit, please share this posting with them.

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AstraZeneca embraces diversity and equality of opportunity.  We are committed to building an inclusive and diverse team representing all backgrounds, with as wide a range of perspectives as possible, and harnessing industry-leading skills.  We believe that the more inclusive we are, the better our work will be.  We welcome and consider applications to join our team from all qualified candidates, regardless of their characteristics.  We comply with all applicable laws and regulations on non-discrimination in employment (and recruitment), as well as work authorization and employment eligibility verification requirements.