Pharmacy Technician, Sterile Compounding

Position Summary

The Pharmacy Technician, Sterile Compounding supports high-impact sterile compounding operations that enable safe, scalable medication production within Empower's 503A/503B environment. This role owns end-to-end execution of aseptic preparation, documentation, and cleanroom readiness while ensuring regulatory compliance and batch quality. The Technician operates within cGMP and USP 797/800 standards, contributing to operational excellence, patient safety, increased capacity, reduced variability, and strong compliance practices.

Responsibilities

• Sterile Operations Aseptic Execution: Perform sterile compounding using validated aseptic techniques within ISO-classified cleanrooms.
• Process Compliance: Execute compounding processes in strict adherence to batch records, SOPs, USP 797/800, cGMP, and regulatory requirements.
• Equipment Operation: Operate and monitor compounding and sterilization equipment to support reliable production flow and minimize downtime.
• Documentation Accuracy: Complete compounding documentation and batch records with precision, ensuring traceability, compliance, and inspection readiness.
• Deviation Response: Identify, escalate, and support investigation of deviations using structured problem-solving and root cause analysis.
• Inspection Readiness: Maintain readiness for internal and external audits by adhering to protocols and supporting documentation reviews.
• Environment Control: Maintain cleanroom integrity through cleaning, sterilization, and environmental monitoring.
• Workflow Optimization: Apply LEAN principles, including 5S and root cause analysis, to streamline workflows, reduce waste, and improve cycle times.
• Team Collaboration: Collaborate cross-functionally to meet production targets, support training of new technicians, and standardize best practices across shifts.

Knowledge and Skills

• Strong knowledge of aseptic technique, USP 797/800, and cGMP standards.
• Proficiency in sterile compounding calculations, equipment operation, and batch documentation.
• Ability to work effectively in controlled cleanroom environments while following gowning, safety, and contamination control requirements.
• Knowledge of continuous improvement methodologies, including LEAN and root cause analysis.

Experience and Qualifications

• 2+ years of cGMP or LEAN manufacturing experience required.
• High school diploma or equivalent required.
• Detail-oriented and self-motivated with the ability to follow instructions and work in controlled environments with hazardous substances and strong odors.
• Skilled in mathematical calculations, equipment operation, and meeting gowning requirements for cleanroom processes.
• Certified Pharmacy Technician registered with the Texas State Board of Pharmacy required.
• Sterile/IV compounding accreditation by the Accreditation Council for Pharmacy Education required.

Key Competencies

• Customer Focus: Builds trust through customer-centric solutions.
• Strategic AI: Guides responsible AI adoption and adaptation.
• Optimizes Work Processes: Drives efficiency with continuous improvement.
• Collaborates: Partners effectively to achieve shared goals.
• Resourcefulness: Secures and deploys resources efficiently.
• Manages Complexity: Simplifies and solves complex challenges.
• Ensures Accountability: Delivers on commitments with integrity.
• Situational Adaptability: Adjusts approach to shifting conditions.
• Communicates Effectively: Tailors messages to diverse audiences.

Values

• People: Empowering people defines who we are.
• Quality: Excellence in every product, every time.
• Service: Serving others is our highest purpose.
• Innovation: Advancing care through technology and discovery.

Employee Benefits, Health and Wellness

We offer comprehensive benefits to support your health, well-being, and future, including medical, dental, and vision coverage, paid time off, 401(k) matching, wellness perks, IV therapy, and compounded medications. Learn more: https://careers.empowerpharmacy.com/benefits/

Physical Requirements

While performing the responsibilities of the job, the employee is required to talk and hear. The employee is often required to remain in a stationary position for a significant amount of the workday and frequently use their hands and fingers to handle or feel in order to access, input, and retrieve information from the computer and other office productivity devices. Employees are regularly required to move about the office and around the corporate campus. The employee is regularly required to stand, walk, reach with arms and hands, climb or balance, and to stoop, kneel, crouch or crawl.