Team Member - Packing (Strip Packing)

This role is for a packing operations associate responsible for setting up and operating packing line machinery, ensuring compliance with GMP, GDP, and safety standards. The position involves performing line clearance, managing changeovers, recording batch activities, and maintaining equipment through Cleaning Lubricant Tighten Inspection and preventive maintenance. You will contribute to regulatory readiness by maintaining accurate documentation, supporting RCA and CAPA during breakdowns, and cooperating during audits. The role emphasizes adherence to SOPs, personal safety practices, and continuous improvement through Kaizen, 5S, and lean initiatives. Additionally, you will engage in training programs, safety drills, and digital system usage (SOR, OEE dashboards) to strengthen operational efficiency and compliance.

Roles & Responsibilities

• You will be responsible for setting up and operating primary packing line machinery, loading materials, and ensuring efficient operations.
• You will be responsible for performing line clearance, managing changeovers, preventive maintenance and ensuring correct product labeling with batch and regulatory information.
• You will be responsible for recording all activities in compliance with GMP, maintaining documentation, and supporting audits.
• You will be responsible for cleaning and sanitizing packing lines, performing Cleaning Lubricant Tighten Inspection activities, verifying calibration, and troubleshooting minor equipment issues.
• You will be responsible for reporting equipment issues, supporting preventive maintenance, and implementing CAPA for repeat issues.
• You will be responsible for consistently following PPE, hygiene, and safety standards, reporting incidents, and

executing LOTO procedures.

• You will be responsible for participating in training sessions, safety drills, SOP updates, and engaging in Kaizen, 5S, and lean initiatives.
• You will be responsible for using computerized systems (SOR), digital dashboards (OEE, Plant Visibility, AMPLE), and supporting root cause analysis to improve efficiency.

Qualifications

Educational qualificatio

n: Diploma in Pharmaceutical Sciences, Pharmacy, Industrial Engineering or a related field is mandatory.

• Minimum work experience:
  2+ / 4+ years of experience
  Skills & attributes &Critical exposures

Functional Skills

• Equipment Operation and Maintenance
• Incident Reporting
• Material Handling
• Packaging Machine Operation
• Pharmaceutical Packaging
• Regulatory Compliance

Resident Skills

• Current Good Manufacturing Practices (cGMPS)
• Digital Literacy
• Good Documentation Practices
• Safety Standards
• Lean Methodologies

Behavioural Skills

• Safety-first mindset with strong compliance and regulatory alignment
• Collaborative across cross-functional teams and external stakeholders
• Continuous improvement orientation with problem-solving and innovation

Critical exposures

• Experience in adherence to production schedules and managing primary and secondary packaging materials, batch requirements, and consumables is desired
• Experience in conducting in-process quality checks, ensuring seal integrity, batch coding accuracy, and handling rejection and scrap management is desired
• Exposure to troubleshooting, assisting in the qualification and calibration of packing equipment, and understanding overall equipment efficiency (OEE) is preferred.
• Exposure to basic safety knowledge (EHS) related to moving machinery risks and compliance with Safety Standards standards is preferred

Benefits Offered

At Dr. Reddy’s we actively help to catalyse your career growth and professional development through personalised learning programs.

The benefits you will enjoy at Dr. Reddy’s are on par with the best industry standards. They include, among other things and other essential equipment, joining & relocation support, family support (Maternity & Paternity benefits), learning and development opportunities, medical coverage for yourself and your family, life coverage for yourself.

" Our Work Culture

Ask any employee at Dr. Reddy’s why they come to work every day and they’ll say, because Good Health Can’t Wait. This is our credo as well as the guiding principle behind all our actions. We see healthcare solutions not as scientific formulations, but as a means to help patients lead healthier lives, and we’re always attuned to the new and the next to empower people to stay fit. And to do this, we foster a culture of empathy and dynamism. People are at the core of our journey over the last few decades. They have been supported by an enabling environment that buoys individual ability while fostering teamwork and shared success. We believe that when people with diverse skills are bound together by a common purpose and value system, they can make magic.

For more details, please visit our career website at

• Educational qualification: Diploma in Pharmaceutical Sciences, Pharmacy, Industrial Engineering or a related field is mandatory

• Minimum work experience: 2+ / 4+ years of experience Skills & attribute

• Benefits Offered
• At Dr. Reddy’s we actively help to catalyse your career growth and professional development through personalised learning programs.
• The benefits you will enjoy at Dr. Reddy’s are on par with the best industry standards. They include, among other things and other essential equipment, joining & relocation support, family support (Ma
• " Our Work Culture
• Ask any employee at Dr. Reddy’s why they come to work every day and they’ll say, because Good Health Can’t Wait. This is our credo as well as the guiding principle behind all our actions. We see healt
• For more details, please visit our career website at