Product Packaging Associate

Position Summary

Fortis is a global leader in Life Sciences and diagnostics reagents and solutions. We partner with our Customers to design, validate, and manufacture solutions to solve their complex development problems. Our Teams work together across various sites, functions, & scientific disciplines to help our customers bring their innovations to market with confidence. 

The Product Packaging Associate's primary responsibility is to prepare goods for shipment by packaging, labeling, and ensuring their secure placement for shipment. This position collaborates with other supply chain and customer service associates to meet shipping deadlines and customer expectations, ensuring the products are packaged according to company standards. This role is crucial in the efforts to reducing damage during shipping and ensuring timely deliveries.

What You Will Do

• Run daily vialing reports in SAP to prioritize finished products needing immediate shipment and inventory replenishment. 
• Run replenishment programs to determine same day vialing needs
• Adjust inventories as needed.
• Prepare and bottle products in appropriate quantities for customers following SOPs.
• Scan all daily vialing, production and new product label records.
• Perform routine physical inventory cycle counts of finished products, components, and supplies.  
• Ensure all required labeling and documentation for finished goods inventory is properly completed.
• Operate and maintain label makers and programs to update labels as needed.
• Verify new product labels with verification sheet and physical product when delivered from Production.  
• Communicate with production regarding backordered and low inventory items, kit component, and same day order fulfillment needs.
• Communicate with Customer Service regarding open orders and necessary instructions.
• Process returned goods.
• Support internal material requests.
• Carry out NCR instructions sent by production department.
• Keep finished product cold rooms, bulk antibodies, ELISA kit components, etc. organized and clean.
• Keep product packaging department supplies stocked.
• Backup the Shipping department as needed.
• Perform other tasks as assigned by management, which may not be listed above, that are necessary to accomplish our goal of improving lives by supporting scientific discovery.    

 Who You Are & What You Bring

Education& Experience 

• Highschool Diploma or equivalent a must, Bachelor’s degree a plus.
• Experience working in a lab setting
• Experience in Product Packaging preferred 
• Must possess knowledge of laboratory instrumentation and computer software. 
• Organized, detail oriented, able to multitask all while moving at a quick pace. 

What We Offer

We have an incredibly talented group of intelligent, down-to-earth individuals who are committed to developing and manufacturing only the highest quality products.  Our mission: “Pursuing a Healthier World by Creating Tomorrow’s Science Today” is complemented by our core values (EXCITE):

Excellence – We believe in solving for root cause.  No shortcuts, no “band-aids”

Customer First – We prioritize the experience and outcomes of our customers above all.

Integrity – We are honest and accountable, holding ourselves to a high standard of ethical conduct.

Trust – We believe an engaged, empowered team begins with a foundation of trust.  We trust our team members to make the right decisions and to be driven by and evaluated on results.

Entrepreneurship – We encourage smart risk taking.  We value novel mistakes in the pursuit of innovation.

Fortis provides a competitive salary, success-sharing bonus plan, medical, dental, disability and life insurance, and a 401(k) plan.  We are an equal opportunity employer.  We evaluate qualified applicants without regard to race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, disability, veteran status, or any other protected characteristic.  We are an E-Verify Employer in the United States.