COMPLETE Inventory Handler - Toronto, ON

Reference No. R2721360

Position Title: Inventory Handler

Duration: Fixed-Term - Contract, End Date: December 20, 2024

Department: Production Logistics Management

Location: Toronto, Ontario

Sanofi Vaccines

Sanofi's global vaccines business unit partners with the public health, medical and scientific communities to improve access to life-protecting vaccines and increase vaccination coverage, while striving to develop new and improved vaccines to enhance health and well-being.

At Sanofi, we chase the miracles of science to improve people’s lives.  We believe our cutting-edge science and manufacturing, fueled by data and digital technologies, have the potential to transform the practice of medicine, turning the impossible into possible for millions of people. 

Major Activities of the Job

Delivering product to packaging lines in a timely fashion, also reconcile in-process and finished products, complete appropriate documentation and physically transfer product:

Organizing the storage of product under controlled temperature conditions:

• Product must be organized under storage conditions so that it can be easily found and retrieved.

• Organization must be controlled and logical to meet GMP requirements.

• The organization must facilitate movement of product between various storage sites and buildings.

Transferring product between storage sites and product disposal process:

• Transfer between buildings and storage sites must be carried out to maintain the production schedules, and done safely to protect the product.

• Temperatures must be strictly controlled, product on the skids must be properly wrapped and identified, and securely mounted within trucks or on fork lifts.

• A great deal of lifting is required for this activity and work is often carried out in cold rooms.

• BRP transfer documents showing product, lot#, location etc., must be filled out to ensure BRP accuracy for product transfers between buildings 50, 83, 90 and 91.

• Perform cycle counts on a weekly basis and follow up on cycle count discrepancies.

• Product Disposal.

• In-process material for discards (i.e. broken glass, product, etc. is transferred to 83 dock for disposal pick up).

• Product identified for disposal is reconciled against the MOO (Material Disposition Order) and packaged appropriately  (i.e. bagging of live virus material) and arrange for transportation to Building 77.

• Disposal documentation is filed.

Monitoring freezer and refrigerator performance:

• Must monitor daily temperature recording for 13 refrigerators and 2 freezers located in buildings 50, 90, and 83.

• Must account for recording irregularities, change document readings and conscientiously do it to meet cGMP.

• On an annual basis collect thermometers  deliver to QC Meterology for certification, again to meet cGMP.

General housekeeping duties. On call for sundry labour:

• General housekeeping duties include periodic sweeping of the fridge and deepfreeze.

• Stacking skids and re-organizing material on the packaging floor.

• Transfer to proper storage locations for material received by Filling & Packaging such as media to incubators, material for refrigerated storage, packaging  materials to the press room and the packaging floor and primary components such as ampoules to filling are delivered.

Product Releases:

• Responsible  for retrieving released product from storage locations and delivery to shipping.

• Upon released product transfer to shipping repackage all part containers, reconcile entire lot against the Packaging Work Record and document the transaction on the FPW sheet and  distribute this documentation to CPIC, shipping and occasionally receiving.  

• Physically transfer released product to the Shipping Department.

P&P Operator functions including WFI sampling packaging equipment operation:

The following duties are performed as required throughout the Filling & Packaging Department as required. The duties are itemized as follows:

F&P Department:

• Perform WFI sampling and deliver samples to QC.

• Operate Zebra labeler to print carton labels for PWR orders.

• Operate and imprint lot number and expiry dates to cartons using the Graseby Allen printer.

• Prepare "Dummy" packages for use by Marketing department

Packaging Department:

• Perform operator and examiner duties on Noack, Jones, IWKA, Line 1&2 or Brevetti Ampoule Inspection line as required.

• Operate Gilowy and Metromatic vial washers.

Minimum Qualifications

• Minimum Grade 12 (Basic Science, Math and Computer) plus a minimum of one (1) year of previous relevant work experience.

• Reach Truck Certificate 

• Forklift Certificate

• D License for Trucks                                                                            

• G.M.P. Techniques

• Mathematics

• Certified Forklift Operator

• Sterile Techniques

• S.O.P.'s

• Mechanical Aptitude

• Organizational Skills, Accuracy, Written Communication                                                                                                     

• Inclusive from Monday – Friday: 7:00 a.m. – 3:00 p.m.

Pursue Progress.

Discover Extraordinary

Better is out there. Better medications, better outcomes, better science. But progress doesn’t happen without people – people from different backgrounds, in different locations, doing different roles, all united by one thing: a desire to make miracles happen. So, let’s be those people.

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