Warehouse pharmacist

Job Ref #: 20230210
Industry: Pharmaceutical And Medical/Healthcare
Job Type: Permanent
Positions Available: 1

Fresenius Kabi is a global healthcare company with over 39 000 employees worldwide. We are dedicated to a higher purpose “caring for life” which drives excellence in everything we do. The manufacturing plant in Port Elizabeth produces both small and large volume parenterals.

Job Description

The position involves the following key responsibilities:

Managing the dispensary:

– Managing issues and returns to and from the factory wrt raw materials

– Managing the storage of all raw materials

-Cycle counts and stock counts of raw materials

-Managing rejected raw materials

-Managing of short dated expired stock

-End of Lots Management

-Management control of narcotic raw materials

-Balancing of narcotic registers quarterly

-Management of sampling requirements

• Manage and coordinate all direct reports including all related HR topics.
• Check on absenteeism and controls subordinate time keeping.
• Control of dispensing receipt and storage of raw materials.
• Investigation of variances found in cycle counts.
• Responsible to conduct investigations and root cause analysis through Kabitrack
• Back up dispenser.
• Ensure compliance to standard operating procedures and updating relevant procedures
• Compliance to GMP requirements in the above areas
• Responsible for good housekeeping in area of responsibility
• From time to time carry out other jobs within the department / factory, which are consistent with the grade, qualification and training of the incumbent

Job Requirements

• B Pharm Tertiary qualification.
• Registered Pharmacist with South African Pharmacy Council.
• Computer literate
• 1-2 years would be ideal

Understanding of pharmaceutical manufacturing

GMP Principles

Understand quality investigation requirements (risk assessments, deviations, change controls i.e. Kabitrack)

Risk evaluation

• Interpret and apply production plan
• Logbook and documentation compliance
• Ability to write, review and update SOPs
• Root Cause Analysis
• People Management
• Health and Safety compliance
• Understand stock taking and cycle counting requirements
• Understand requirements for storing raw materials
• Understand requirements for sampling and weighing raw materials