Senior Non-Sterile Compounding Technician 503A (1st shift)

The Senior Non-Sterile Compounding Technician delivers critical operational impact by ensuring precise, compliant, and scalable compounding production within Empower’s high-growth 503A/503B environment. This role owns end-to-end execution of non-sterile compounding workflows, driving quality, safety, and throughput while mentoring technicians and optimizing batch consistency. Leveraging AI as a force multiplier, the position enhances decision-making, accelerates troubleshooting, and improves production accuracy and efficiency at scale. Operating within stringent USP <795>/<800> and regulatory frameworks, this role requires disciplined execution and continuous improvement. Success demands P80–P90 talent characterized by strong technical judgment, learning agility, and data-driven problem solving, enabling consistent delivery of high-quality medications while advancing operational excellence, compliance integrity, and Empower’s mission to expand access to innovative, affordable pharmaceutical solutions.

Compounding Operations

• Batch Execution: Execute complex non-sterile compounding processes across solids, liquids, and semi-solids, ensuring precision, consistency, and compliance with USP <795>/<800> standards while leveraging AI-enabled verification tools to enhance accuracy, reduce variability, and optimize throughput in a regulated, high-volume production environment. 
• Process Optimization: Continuously improve compounding workflows by analyzing production data, identifying inefficiencies, and applying AI-driven insights to enhance speed, scalability, and reproducibility while maintaining strict adherence to regulatory requirements and internal quality standards. 
• Equipment Utilization: Operate and maintain specialized compounding and packaging equipment, integrating predictive analytics and AI-supported monitoring to minimize downtime, ensure calibration accuracy, and sustain consistent production performance aligned with operational targets.

Quality And Compliance

• Regulatory Adherence: Ensure all compounding activities meet federal, state, and USP <795>/<800> requirements by embedding AI-assisted compliance checks, documentation accuracy, and audit readiness into daily workflows, reinforcing a culture of accountability and precision. 
• Quality Assurance: Drive batch-level quality control through rigorous verification, deviation identification, and AI-supported trend analysis to proactively detect risks, enhance product consistency, and uphold Empower’s commitment to high-quality pharmaceutical outcomes. 
• Safety Enforcement: Maintain strict adherence to hazardous and nonhazardous handling protocols, using AI-enhanced monitoring systems and standardized procedures to ensure safe environments, proper PPE usage, and containment practices across all compounding activities.

Technical Leadership

• Team Mentorship: Provide hands-on training and technical guidance to technicians, reinforcing best practices, regulatory standards, and AI-enabled tools while elevating team capability, consistency, and performance in a fast-paced production environment. 
• Problem Resolution: Serve as a technical expert in diagnosing formulation and process issues, leveraging AI-driven diagnostics and cross-functional collaboration to resolve deviations efficiently and implement sustainable corrective actions. 
• Continuous Improvement: Lead incremental improvements through Lean methodologies and AI-supported insights, driving measurable gains in efficiency, quality, and scalability while aligning team execution with Empower’s operational excellence standards.

• Advanced knowledge of non-sterile compounding techniques, USP <795>/<800> standards, and pharmaceutical production processes, with the ability to integrate AI tools for enhanced accuracy, compliance, and workflow optimization. 

• Proficiency in data analysis, Excel, and AI-enabled production systems to support decision-making, improve efficiency, and identify trends impacting quality and throughput. 

• Strong problem-solving and technical troubleshooting skills, with the ability to interpret complex data and implement effective, scalable solutions in regulated environments. 

• Effective communication and collaboration skills to train team members, support cross-functional initiatives, and drive alignment in a high-growth, quality-focused organization.

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 

• Minimum of 3 years of experience in non-sterile compounding or pharmaceutical manufacturing, with a strong command of formulation processes and a track record of optimizing techniques for solids, liquids, and semi-solids to ensure consistent product quality. 

• Associate's degree in pharmaceutical sciences, chemistry, chemical engineering, or a related field is preferred. 

• Strong leadership and adaptability skills with the ability to work effectively in a fast-paced environment while motivating and guiding teams. 
• Proficiency in Excel or other spreadsheet software and knowledge of manufacturing tools and equipment to support efficient operations.
• Certified Pharmacy Technician (CPhT) (required); PTCB Nonsterile Compounding Certificate (preferred); Lean Six Sigma Yellow Belt (preferred).

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.