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The Pharmaxo Group is an award winning, market leading pharmaceutical and healthcare business that serves customers, patients and medical professionals across the UK.
We are located in a modern manufacturing and office facility in Corsham Science Park in Wiltshire, just 5 miles from Chippenham and 8 miles from Bath. The Pharmaxo Group comprises of:
Bath ASU which produces thousands of aseptically (sterile) compounded injectable pharmaceutical products each day for hospitals and patients who are fighting cancer, living with chronic disease or in need of pain relief.
Pharmaxo Healthcare which is a growing clinical homecare provider in an expanding market offering greater convenience to patients whilst delivering efficiencies to the NHS.
Pharmaxo Scientific which develops the innovations in biotechnology, data and information technology that drive our businesses.
Duties & Responsibilities
- Receive stock into the quarantine area as per the standard operating procedures, check and complete required documentation and book on to the system.
- To co-ordinate and perform the picking, packing and dispatch of all orders for dispatch to hospital/clinical settings.
- To monitor stock levels and coordinate with administration for ordering and resupply.
- Providing a prompt and responsive delivery service of medicines to hospitals and courier collection points and the replenishment of stock as required
- Monitoring temperature control systems.
- To maintain all of the documentation relating to the stores.
- To follow the standard operating procedures in accordance with Good Manufacturing Practice in order to maintain the Units Specials Licence.
- To ensure that all relevant production validations are kept up to date.
- To ensure that the warehouse is maintained in a tidy ordered condition and to a standard of appearance concordant with the professional nature of the work, this includes the restocking of consumable stock.
- Routine stock checks (some may be out of hours)
- Stock rotation
- Checking of expiry dates
- Safe Operation and use of company vehicles to include:
- Safety checks
- Maintenance (POL)
- Temperature control equipment
- Use of navigation aids
- Routine stock checks (some may be out of hours)
- To ensure that the relevant principles of Good Manufacturing Practice (GMP) are applied at all times
- To ensure compliance with the Health and Safety at Work Act and all other relevant legislation e.g. Medicines Act, Control of Substances Hazardous to Health (COSHH)
- To follow Standard Operating Procedures and to contribute to the development and maintenance of these and other work instructions
- Other tasks as required by the Production management team or Warehouse Supervisor
- To attend such study days and up-dating courses as are deemed necessary for the
- development of the unit and yourself.
- To undertake any other duties within the production team as required by your
- Manager/Supervisor which may include some out of hours work depending on the nature of the task.
Working Pattern
Full time - 37.5 hours per week Monday-Friday. Shifts are one week of days followed by one week of lates on rotation:
Day Shift 08:30 - 17:00
Late Shift 11:30 - 20:00
1 in 8 weeks a driving shift:
18:00 - 02:00
Sun- Thursday
Friday off
Occasional Saturday morning overtime for stock count (Quarterly)
Full Job Description can be found here: JD Warehouse Operator.Driver (002).pdf
This job description is not intended to be exhaustive. The post holder will be required to be flexible and take on projects and responsibilities as the company grows.
Benefits
- Competitive salary
- Annual leave of 25 days + bank holidays (increasing to 27 days after 3 years service)
- Annual company bonus scheme (subject to scheme eligibility)
- Pension - you will be auto-enrolled after 3 months of employment at 5% (with an employer contribution of 4%). You can also opt to increase your contribution to 6% to which the employer will contribute 8%.
- Life assurance 10 x salary with a max of £300,000
- Access to Employee Assistance Programme, counselling service and virtual GP service
