General Assistant (East London) at Aspen Pharma Group
- Location
- East London, Eastern Cape
- Contract
- Permanent
- Minimum qualification
- Certificate / N-level / trade
- Closing date
- Not stated — check the original listing
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In brief
**Overview** This role is for a General Assistant based in East London at Aspen Pharma Group. Aspen Pharma Group is a major pharmaceutical company with over 160 years of heritage, listed on the JSE Limited, and committed to providing high-quality, affordable medicines and products globally. The General Assistant will contribute to sustaining life and promoting healthcare by supporting manufacturing operations. **What you will do** The General Assistant is responsible for preparing, cleaning, and inspecting work areas and equipment, handling and staging raw materials, sampling work areas and equipment for potential contamination, sanitising drains and pipes to prevent contamination, and completing related administrative tasks. Key responsibilities include: * **Operational Support:** Executing production activities according to established policies, practices, guidelines, and quality/safety standards. Optimising personal work processes, identifying gaps in current procedures, and facilitating process implementation in their work area. * **Inspections & Verifications:** Performing visual inspections of production areas and equipment, conducting pre-production checks (environmental, scale, equipment) as per BMR, SOP, and product specifications, and verifying scale and measuring equipment performance. * **Material Handling:** Dispensing, transferring, weighing, collecting, and staging raw materials for processing in line with requirements. * **Production Preparation:** Setting up rooms and IBCs for production activities and preparing solutions as per SOP. * **Routine Support Tasks:** Cleaning work areas and equipment before and after processing materials as per SOP and checklists, performing routine equipment checks and transfers, collecting production area/equipment samples for testing, controlling contamination by flushing drains and pipes, assisting with sorting defected products and waste minimisation, providing information for campaign preparation, and identifying/reporting operational problems that are out of specification. * **Reporting & Record Keeping:** Completing batch record labels and Overall Equipment Effectiveness (OEE) sheets, performing half-hourly inspections of production areas, attending shift meetings, providing information for report completion, completing and consolidating standard documents, and maintaining/updating records and systems. **Requirements (from the original advert)** * **EDUCATIONAL REQUIREMENTS:** National Certification (N3)/ Matric/ National Senior Certificate (NSC)/NQF 4 with 0-2 years’ related experience. * **KNOWLEDGE & EXPERIENCE REQUIREMENTS:** Manufacturing experience would be an advantage. * **SOFT SKILLS AND COMPETENCY REQUIREMENTS:** * Basic technical knowledge of pharmaceutical production processes, procedures, systems and equipment. * Basic understanding of pharmaceutical standards and compliance requirements. * Finalising outputs * Following procedures * Taking action * Information gathering **Who should apply** This role is suitable for individuals with a National Certification (N3), Matric, National Senior Certificate (NSC), or NQF 4 qualification, who have 0-2 years of related experience. Candidates with manufacturing experience, particularly in pharmaceutical production, will have an advantage. The ideal candidate will possess basic technical knowledge of pharmaceutical processes, procedures, and equipment, along with an understanding of pharmaceutical standards and compliance. They should be detail-oriented, able to follow procedures diligently, proactive in taking action, and skilled in information gathering. **Deadline** Not specified **Reference** Original posting: https://www.myjobmag.co.za/job/general-assistant-east-london-aspen-pharma-group-1 Source: myjobmag
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