Experience

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  PHARMACEUTICAL CONTRACTORS

  • South Africa
  • Pharmaceutical Manufacturing
  • 1 - 100 Employee

  • Production Compliance Pharmacist

    • Apr 2019 - Present

    • Manufacturing of tablets, capsules, powders, liquids, creams and ointments.• Check weighing of raw materials before manufacturing process at liquids creams and ointments. • Doing line openings at granulation, compression, encapsulation ensuring that cGMP, Good documentation practices are adhered to. • Complets QMS documents via structured procedures.• Participates in risk assements as required.• Conducts GMP awareness and training programs together with Production manager as required.• Initiates and implements corrective and preventative action (CAPA) handover to QA and evaluates the effectiveness of corrective action.• Implements and enforces Good Documentation across the factory.• Doing in process checks such as hardness, friability, disintegration, uniformity of mass, length and diameter etc.• Review batch manufacturing records before submission to QA department and ensured that all batches have been manufactured or packed in accordance with approved Master manufacturing and Packaging intructions, SOP, and GMP.• Inspection of retention samples as representative sampleof batch.• Ensure that correct measung equipment was usedand that the equipment is within calibration.• Ensure that machines are set to correct parameters and that parameters used are validated.• Ensure that non-conforming products have been handled as per SOP and justification has been written when necessary• Ensure proper gowning procedures are always adhered to.• Always maintain the highest possible level of cleanliness and hygiene during activities in the facility.• Initiate, update and approve SOP’s • Investigate out of trends results, write incidents reports, deviations, etc.• Build good relationship with warehouse, Quality control, Quality assurance etc. • Training operators on SOP’s etc in order to perfom the tasks correctly.• Taking part in product quality review • Presenting at production meetings to let other departments know the status of production.

  • QA Compliance Pharmacist

    • Sep 2018 - Mar 2019

    • Manage all Process Validations (PV) as per SOP  Manage Process Validation Plan  Coordinate the required resources for validation execution and conclusion  Ensure the completion of all PV protocols and Reports  Verify that all equipment used as part of PV protocols has been calibrated  Ensure that all sampling requirements are met as per sampling plan • Annual Product Quality Reviews Collect raw data and capture on the pre-designed Excel spreadsheet  Interpret the data and make recommendations to the Quality Assurance Manager (QAM) and Responsible Pharmacist (RP)with regards to quality trends Identify corrective/preventative action when negative quality trend is observed. Assist QAM in compilation of APQR • Ensure legal requirements as laid down by the South African Health Products Regulatory authority are understood and are adhered to. • Participate in cleaning validation with input from QAM, with active contribution to ensure that regulatory requirements are met Participate and contribute effectively to projects deemed critical and vital to QMS.• Assist with internal audits and follow-up inspections when required to verify effectiveness of CAPA’s implemented • Assist with the collection of information and investigations for customer complaints.

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  Pharma Q

  • florida south africa

  • Senior Production Pharmacist

    • Mar 2017 - Aug 2018
    • florida south africa

    • Verify dispensing of materials and it mass or volume • Check the addition of each material into the mix• Monitor production process • Verify the identity of the bulk product and printed packaging materials• Ensure that the materials and product are correctly handed and stored correctly and recorded• Investigate incidents that have resulted in non-conforming products or compliance failures• Opening the packing line by ensuring good pharmaceutical practice for examples check that the following: • Bulk: No contamination, connections are correct, weight or quantity is correct, release and status label are correct.• Packaging Materials: Unit cartons, bottles, labels, packet insert, shipper label, shrink wrap label, screws etc. are in place.• Calculations: ensuring that all necessary calculations are on point according to the packing document.• Communication: ensuring good flow of communications amongst the packing team.• Documents: ensuring the auditing of packing documents is done on time and taken to QA department• Meetings: meeting with the packing team including production team as required.• Production Pharmacist cover: able to assist the production pharmacist when the need arise. • Teamwork : working as aSterile packaging pharmacist• Opening the packing line by ensuring good pharmaceutical practice for examples check that the following: • Bulk: No contamination, connections are correct, weight or quantity is correct, release and status label are correct.• Packaging Materials: Unit cartons, bottles, labels, packet insert, shipper label, shrink wrap label, screws etc. are in place.• Calculations: ensuring that all necessary calculations are on point according to the packing document.• Communication: ensuring good flow of communications amongst the packing team.• Documents: ensuring the auditing of packing documents is done on time and taken to QA department team with everybody involved such flow managers , line coordinators ,etc

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  CLINIX BOTSHELONG-EMPILWENI PRIVATE HOSPITAL

  • boksburg

  • Hospital Pharmacist

    • Mar 2012 - Sep 2016
    • boksburg

    Pharmacist• Dispensing, training juniors and locum pharmacist and new pharmacists, enhancing productive relationships with patients and other health care professionals, ensure that the standard operating procedure is being followed. Ordering drugs, keeping costs down, planning for stock take, balance S6 register, setting high standard for others and myself.• Ensure that best customer service to customers including patients.• Ensure that medicines are used safely within the pharmacy and that the patients get optimum counseling on medication and the illnesses.• Retail payments – ensure that customers pay levies resulting from medical aids transactions.• People’s management – manage assistants including all the junior staff and provide training from time to time when necessary• Feedback - provide feed back to pharmacy manager when necessary. Example – movement of stock, customer’s suggestions etc.Acting Pharmacy Manager• Ensure operational management which includes internal issues such as improving efficiency and costs control. • Ensuring strategic management that includes external issues such as understanding customer needs and competitive forces.• Quality management which includes control, improvement, assurance and planning.• Preventing shortage of stock and still remain within budget.• Ensuring good communication between nurses, doctors, other hospital departments, patients and other stakeholders.• Managing staff very well with encouragement of teamwork and optimum results. • Manage leave and leave forms and give the forms to HR practitioner. • Authorize overtime for permanent and locums and give forms to HR Practitioner. • Activates inactive stock. • Sign and check invoices for correctness. • Print stock on hand for pharmacy stock controller, wards and specialized units such as theater, casualty, intensive care unit and neonatal intensive care unit. • Run hospital price update and check and do checks. • Run retail price update etc.