Location, Port Elizabeth, Eastern Cape, Advertised By Agency, Job Type Full-Time, LVP Senior Pharmacist, Port Elizabeth

Duties include: Ensure total compliance of the department to pharmaceutical GMP standards and support production activities from a pharmaceutical perspective. Responsible for the assessment of production processes in order to establish level of compliance versus pharmaceutical standards. Promotion of GMP Compliance within the department. Conduct product anomaly investigations. Ensuring timeous close-out of events/deviations, CAPAs and change controls. Responsible for the recipe creation, implementation and recipe maintenance. Performs departmental internal audits to establish level of compliance and necessary corrective actions to close gaps identified.

Participates in external departmental audits and the completion of the subsequent audit finding report. Conduct ad hoc product studies or trials as part of process improvement initiatives. Participates in writing, reviewing and updating departmental Standard Operating Procedures. Coordinate/Conduct training initiatives within the department to ensure that all staff is properly trained and competent to perform their job function. Responsible for the identification of process improvement opportunities in order to prevent product loss and unnecessary product discard To take on mentoring role for pharmaceutical staff.

Occasionally perform duties of Production Pharmacist as follows: Budget and Cost Control. Human Resources Management.

Minimum Requirements: B Pharm Tertiary qualification.  Registered Pharmacist with South African Pharmacy Council. A minimum of 3 years pharmaceutical manufacturing experience is essential. Specific Large Volume Parenteral process technical knowledge/skills are advantageous. Proven ‘hands-on’ managerial ability. Production management skills. Human resources / industrial relations skills. N.O.S.A awareness.

Forward your CV to: tash@mpc.co.za