Oral Solid Dose Manufacturing Operator

Be part of transforming drug delivery

Step onto our manufacturing floor and into a mission that matters. At Adare, you’ll partner with a Shift Supervisor and a tight-knit team to turn raw materials into finished oral solid dose medicines that improve patients’ lives worldwide. We collaborate with leading pharmaceutical companies across the full development and commercial lifecycle, and every operator plays a visible role in that impact.

Your day-to-day

From the start of your shift, you’ll prepare production areas to exacting standards, document your work with precision, and run equipment that shapes powders into tablets and capsules. You’ll rotate across processes as you master them, supported by structured cross-training and cGMP-focused mentoring.

• Prepare and clean product rooms; disassemble, clean, and reassemble mills, mixers, ovens, granulators, and more in line with SOPs.
• Set up the dispensing room per SOP and the Batch Manufacturing Record (BMR); record setup and cleaning in logbooks and required paperwork.
• Dispense and issue raw and packaging materials from the warehouse in accordance with SOPs and Production Batch Records; verify approvals, expiry, and retest dates; document issuance in the Production Batch Record and inventory cards.
• Operate granulation systems to build uniform granules ready for downstream processing.
• Run coating pans and supporting systems, including Accela Cota and Compulab units with dust collection.
• Compress and encapsulate products per BMRs; operate encapsulation equipment.
• Operate tablet compression assets such as Kilian S520, Syntheses 500, tablet presses, drum lifters, dedusters, metal detectors, scales, micrometers, hardness testers, printers, and inspection machines.
• Clean and maintain equipment within Encapsulation and Tablet Compression areas; sustain orderly, audit-ready workspaces.
• Follow cGMP, SOPs, and site Safety Policies at all times; adhere to the production schedule and complete other duties as assigned.
• Complete required training and demonstrate proficiency before cross-training to additional processes; wear respiratory protection when needed (medical clearance required).

What you’ll bring

• High school diploma or GED.
• 1 year working in a GMP or FDA-regulated environment.
• Comfort with computers for training and interfacing with mechanical/control systems; clear written and verbal communication.
• Math skills including addition, subtraction, multiplication, and division using whole numbers, fractions, and decimals.
• Ability to present information to small groups of colleagues or customers.
• Sound judgment to follow detailed instructions in written, verbal, or diagram form.

Preferred proficiencies

• Pharmaceuticals
• Machine setups for production runs
• Experience in a manufacturing environment

Grow with Adare

Advance through cross-training as you master each technique—dispensing, granulation, blending, compression, encapsulation, and coating—broadening your impact and your career path in commercial drug manufacturing.

Physical Demands

• The physical demands here are representative of those that must be met by an employee to successfully perform the essential functions of this job. Reasonable accommodations may be made to enable individuals with disabilities to perform the essential functions.

• While performing the duties of this job, the employee is frequently required to sit, use hand and fingers, to manipulate objects, tools, or controls; and reach with hands and arms. The employee is occasionally required to stand, walk, stoop, kneel, crouch, or crawl, and talk or hear.

• The employee must regularly lift and/or move up to 30 pounds.Specific vision abilities required by this job include close vision, color, peripheral, depth perception and the ability to adjust focus.

Adare Pharma is an equal opportunity employer & prohibits unlawful discrimination based on race, color, religion, gender, sexual orientation, gender identity/expression, national origin/ancestry, age, disability, marital & veteran status.