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United States

Westland, Michigan, Usa

Calibrate and maintain equipment, measure and prepare batch materials, and perform quality checks on finished products per cGMP standards in an FDA certified production facility. • Adjust and document weight scale and tablet counter calibration, relative humidity, and temperature. • Prepare materials per master formula and operate blander, capsule and tablet machines to produce. • Ensure product quality by checking tablet weighing, tablet thickness, tablet hardness, friability, disintegration, and visual inspection. • Ensure product quality by checking capsule weighing, disintegration, and visual inspection. • Control the quality of capsules and tablets according to GMP and applicable SOPs.• Encapsulation Machine setup, startup, troubleshoot, setting, and operating.• Compression Machine setup, startup, troubleshoot, setting, and operating.• Set up and maintain the machine in good working order, inspect for issues, report any worn parts, and/or non-functioning parts to supervisor.• Follow SOP’s and OSHA guidelines at all times.• Comply with cGMP requirements for all operations.• Operate forklift for loading and unloading.

Ahmedabad Area, India

Oversaw all daily manufacturing activities including production planning, quality assurance, maintenance, safety, sanitation, effluent treatment, and compliance with cGMP guidelines and documentation requirements for a 100+person facility producing varied anti-ulcer drug intermediates, dye intermediate & specialty chemicals for multiple international companies.I had successfully performed technology transfer from kilo lab to pilot plant to Commercial production of Pentaprazole’s KSM, Omeprazole’s KSM, Chlorhexidine Base, 5 Bromo Phthalide, Indoline, etc…• Performs complex chemical reactions, extractions, distillations, crystallizations, filtrations, purification, and drying operations.• Generate high pressure and/or critical reaction and require training in hazardous material handling and emergency procedures by SOP. ( like nitration, chlorination, cyclization and solvent distillation)• Control chemical process by monitoring pressures, vacuum, temperature, flows, and levels.• Ability to work with hazardous chemicals, including organic and inorganic solvents, acids, and bases.• Performs quality control analyses as required to complete in-process batches and identifies variations.• Operate equipment includes reactors, autoclave, centrifuge, mixers, crystallizer, grinders, filter presses, tray dryer, FBD, ANFD, filtering equipment, and pumps.• Operate various utility systems including boiler, hot oil system, cooling towers, water chiller, air compressor, and vacuum system.• Operate kilo lab and pilot scale units for process and product development.• Performs preventive and breakdown maintenance.• Proficient with ISO-9001, ISO-14001 practices, policies, standards, and procedures.• Recognized with increment and promotion for meeting ambitious targeted goals for production volume and costs, setting multiple production records.• Reduced pollution and production costs by implementing a reuse process for spent acid.