Warehouse Technician (2 openings)

At Johnson & Johnson, we believe health is everything. Our strength in healthcare innovation empowers us to build a world where complex diseases are prevented, treated, and cured, where treatments are smarter and less invasive, and solutions are personal. Through our expertise in Innovative Medicine and MedTech, we are uniquely positioned to innovate across the full spectrum of healthcare solutions today to deliver the breakthroughs of tomorrow, and profoundly impact health for humanity. Learn more at jnj.com.

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Job Function:

Supply Chain Manufacturing

Job Sub Function:

Manufacturing Pharmaceutical Process Operations

Job Category:

Business Enablement/Support

All Job Posting Locations:

Wilson, North Carolina, United States of America

Job Description:

About Innovative Medicine

Our expertise in Innovative Medicine is informed and inspired by patients, whose insights fuel our science-based advancements. Visionaries like you work on teams that save lives by developing the medicines of tomorrow.

 

Join us in developing treatments, finding cures, and pioneering the path from lab to life while championing patients every step of the way.

 

Learn more at https://www.jnj.com/innovative-medicine

We are searching for the best talent for a Manufacturing Technician (Warehouse) to join our Johnson & Johnson Innovative Medicine Supply Chain organization located in Wilson, North Carolina.   
 

J&J is expanding our manufacturing capacity with a $2 billion investment to support strong portfolio growth and continue delivering breakthrough innovations and transformational medicines for patients. The new facility will expand production of innovative biologic medicines in areas including oncology, immunology, and neuroscience. J&J’s significant supply chain investment ensures a resilient and reliable future supply of medicines to meet accelerating demand for our current portfolio and future innovations.

 

Purpose: The Manufacturing Technician (Warehouse) is responsible for independently executing scheduled warehouse and manufacturing-support activities within a GMP environment. The role supports the compliant receipt, storage, movement, staging, inventory control, and shipment of materials while maintaining the highest standards of quality, safety, accuracy, and regulatory compliance.

This position is responsible for quality and maintaining the highest standards in compliance and safety within company policies, procedures and all applicable regulations in alignment with the Site Vision.   

You will be responsible for:

• Independently execute warehouse and manufacturing-support processes in accordance with approved standard operating procedures, work instructions, training curricula, and GMP requirements.
• Perform inbound warehouse activities, including material receipt, inspection, documentation, system transactions, labeling, put-away, and storage.
• Perform internal material movements, including staging, replenishment, production supply, returns, cycle counting, inventory reconciliation, and material disposition activities.
• Perform outbound warehouse activities, including picking, packing, shipping, and preparation of temperature-controlled or dry-ice shipments, as applicable.
• Maintain accurate inventory and material status within SAP, MES, or other approved warehouse and manufacturing systems.
• Verify material identity, quantity, condition, storage requirements, and status before receipt, movement, staging, or shipment.
• Monitor warehouse storage conditions and promptly escalate temperature excursions, inventory discrepancies, damaged materials, documentation errors, or other nonconformances.
• Operate powered industrial vehicles and other material-handling equipment after completing required training and qualification.
• Support material availability for production by coordinating warehouse priorities with Manufacturing, Planning, Quality, and other supply chain partners.
• Support schedule adjustments to meet production, material receipt and shipping requirements.
• Retrieve and analyze trend charts and process data on trained procedures.
• Verify and enter production parameters per SOP and Batch Records.
• Accurately complete documentation in SOP’s, logbooks and other GMP documents and/or systems.
• Maintain equipment and instruments.
• Demonstrate training progression through assigned curriculum.
• Accountable for maintaining a working knowledge of basic cGMP requirements to ensure adherence to compliance policies and regulations
• Wear the appropriate PPE when working in manufacturing and other hazardous working environments.
• Proactively maintain a clean and safe work environment. Take necessary action to eliminate safety hazards and communicate to others any observed unsafe behaviors
• Ensure materials are available for production.
• Offer suggestions and follow up on process improvements related to safety, compliance, cost, yield and productivity.
• Carry out duties in compliance with all state and federal regulations and guidelines including FDA, EPA and OSHA.
• Adhere to the safety code of Conduct & J&J EHS policies and attend all required EHS training.
• Support the ongoing production schedule by: Report to work on-time and according to the shift schedule.
• Attend departmental and other scheduled meetings.
• Practice good interpersonal and communication skills.
• Demonstrate positive team-oriented approach in the daily execution of procedures.
• Promote and work within a team environment
• Learn new skills, procedures and processes as assigned by management and continue to develop professionally.
• Create and or provide documentation support for SOPs, WIs, and Batch record revisions
• Responsible for audit preparation and participation
• Review and understand non-conformances
• Champions programs and initiatives that support our business, environment and communities

 

Qualifications:

• High school diploma required; trade school education or equivalent preferred. Candidates must have 3–6 years of manufacturing or distribution experience, preferably in the biopharmaceutical or pharmaceutical industry, or an equivalent combination of education, trade school, work experience, and/or military service.

• Interpret a variety of instructions furnished in written, oral, diagram or schedule form.
• Follow instructions
• Solve practical problems and deal with a variety of concrete variables in situations where only limited standardization exists.
• Working knowledge of cGMP's in a biopharmaceutical or pharmaceutical manufacturing environment is preferred.
• Strong interpersonal skills to build productive relationships, collaborate effectively, and work well within a team while treating others with dignity and respect.
• Flexibility and adaptability in a dynamic supply chain environment, with the ability to act quickly and with accountability to meet organizational goals.
• Cultural sensitivity and ability to thrive in a multi-cultural and matrixed environment.
• Maintain high ethical standards and integrity through Credo-based actions.
• Preferred knowledge of DCS, MES, and SAP systems.

 

Working Conditions:

While performing the duties of this job, the employee:

• Needs to be mobile and able to independently transport themselves between various sites/locations, as dictated by the essential functions and responsibilities of the position.
• Is frequently required to communicate with coworkers.
• While performing the duties of this job, the employee is regularly required to stand; walk; use hands to finger, handle, or feel; climb, bend and stoop; and reach with hands and arms.
• Ability to lift up to 40 lbs.
• Needs to perform gowning procedures to work in manufacturing core.

Physical Requirements:

• Standing, walking, climbing, bending, stooping, reaching with hands and arms, and using hands to finger, handle or feel; frequently required to talk, hear, taste and smell; must have the ability to work from ladders or platforms up to 30 feet in the air and the ability to lift, push or pull up to 40 lbs.
• Specific vision abilities required by this job include close vision, distance vision, color vision, depth perception, and ability to adjust focus.
• Must be able to qualify for respiratory protective equipment use.
• Will be required to operate Powered Industrial Vehicles (PIVs) as needed

Johnson & Johnson is an Equal Opportunity Employer. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, age, national origin, disability, protected veteran status or other characteristics protected by federal, state or local law. We actively seek qualified candidates who are protected veterans and individuals with disabilities as defined under VEVRAA and Section 503 of the Rehabilitation Act. 

 

Johnson & Johnson is committed to providing an interview process that is inclusive of our applicants’ needs. If you are an individual with a disability and would like to request an accommodation, external applicants please contact us via https://www.jnj.com/contact-us/careers , internal employees contact AskGS to be directed to your accommodation resource.

If you are under 18 years of age you (the candidate) may need to obtain the necessary working papers or other documentation required by state law to start the assignment, as well as get a parent’s consent for the background check.

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Required Skills:

 

 

Preferred Skills:

Administrative Support, Agile Manufacturing, Analytics Dashboards, Chemistry, Manufacturing, and Control (CMC), Communication, Data Compilation, Data Savvy, Execution Focus, Gap Analysis, Good Manufacturing Practices (GMP), Operational Excellence, Plant Operations, Process Optimization, Process Oriented, Project Administration, Regulatory Compliance, Self-Awareness