Job Abstract

Production Operator

Position Summary

Catalent is a global, high-growth, public company and a leading partner for the pharmaceutical industry in the development and manufacturing of new treatments for patients worldwide. Your talents, ideas, and passion are essential to our mission: to help people live better, healthier lives. 

Our Manassas, Virginia site is a part of the Consumer Health division and provides expanded capabilities in soft chews and lozenges. With extensive development and manufacturing expertise and a wide range of flavors, ingredients, and colors available, we can work with complex formulations to help create engaging new products consumers will love.

The Production Operator will support production of packaged goods according to Standard Operating Procedures and specified quality standards. The Production Operator carries out specific instructions from Production Manager/Supervisor in accordance with the daily packaging schedule.

This is a 12 hour rotating schedule on night shift. 2:2:3 (on: off: on) 6pm-6am

The Role

• Pallets of the correct product for the run should be pulled over and organized from WIP storage area.
• Person responsible will then dump boxes into the hopper and throw away the plastic liners. Empty boxes will be placed on a pallet to be recycled through Cut and Wrap process again.
• Verify no chews are going through the hopper and elevator that are unwrapped.
• Verify boxes and labels are correct and pack the boxes with the number of chews listed on the batch record.
• Verify that nothing is being packed that is not a #1 product that can be sent to a customer. All defects with bags should be caught by this point before being put into the box.
• Move completed boxes to the tape machine to be sent to the palletizer.
• Load boxes coming from hand packers through the tape machine and onto the pallet to be stacked in accordance with batch records.
• Other duties assigned

The Candidate

• High School diploma or GED required
• Forklift experience is a plus
• Ability to add, subtract, multiply, and divide in all units of measure, using whole numbers, common fractions, and decimals.
• The employee must regularly lift and /or move up to 40 pounds, infrequently move up to 1000 pounds.
• While performing the duties of this Job, the employee is regularly required to stand, use hands to finger, handle, or feel and reach with hands and arms, climb or balance.
• The employee is occasionally required to stoop, kneel, crouch or crawl.

Why You Should Join Catalent

• Spearhead exciting and innovative projects
• Fast-paced, dynamic environment
• High visibility to members at all levels of the organization
• 152 hours of PTO + 8 paid holidays

Catalent offers rewarding opportunities to further your career!  Join the global drug development and delivery leader and help us bring over 7,000 life-saving and life-enhancing products to patients around the world. Catalent is an exciting and growing international company where employees work directly with pharma, biopharma and consumer health companies of all sizes to advance new medicines from early development to clinical trials and to the market. Catalent produces more than 70 billion doses per year, and each one will be used by someone who is counting on us. Join us in making a difference. 

Catalent is committed to the health and safety of its employees, visitors and the customers and patients we serve. As a result of the global pandemic, we have modified many of our recruitment and on-boarding processes to maintain everyone’s safety. The Human Resources teams will communicate all necessary safety processes and procedures throughout each stage.

personal initiative. dynamic pace. meaningful work.

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Catalent is an Equal Opportunity Employer, including disability and veterans.

If you require reasonable accommodation for any part of the application or hiring process due to a disability, you may submit your request by sending an email, and confirming your request for an accommodation and include the job number, title and location to DisabilityAccommodations@catalent.com. This option is reserved for individuals who require accommodation due to a disability. Information received will be processed by a U.S. Catalent employee and then routed to a local recruiter who will provide assistance to ensure appropriate consideration in the application or hiring process.

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