Senior Formulation and Manufacturing Specialist

Senior Formulation and Manufacturing Specialist Tablets Capsules Coating Powders and Liquid Supplements Company Revon Pharma Ltd. Location Mississauga, Ontario Employment type Full-time Compensation $25.00-$30.00 per hour, based on experience Experience required Minimum 5 years of directly relevant, hands-on experience Reports to Senior Management About Revon Pharma Revon Pharma Ltd. is a Canadian contract manufacturer specializing in private-label cosmetics and health and food supplement products. We are expanding our solid-dose and powder manufacturing capabilities and are seeking an experienced professional to lead formulation development, scale-up and manufacturing activities for tablets, hard-shell capsules, coated tablets, premixed powders and liquid supplement products. Position Summary The Senior Formulation and Manufacturing Specialist will provide hands-on technical leadership for the development and manufacture of tablets, capsules, tablet coatings, premixed powders and liquid supplements. The successful candidate must be able to independently develop commercially viable formulas, establish robust manufacturing processes and support products from laboratory trials through full-scale production. This role requires deep practical knowledge of powder characterization, blending, wet and dry granulation, direct compression, tablet pressing, capsule filling, tablet coating, liquid preparation, scale-up and production troubleshooting. Key Responsibilities · Develop and optimize formulations for compressed tablets, chewable tablets, hard-shell capsules, coated tablets, premixed powders, powder sachets, stick packs and liquid supplements. · Develop liquid formulations such as syrups, oral solutions, suspensions and supplement shots, with appropriate flavour, sweetness, pH, viscosity, solubility and preservation systems. · Select suitable active ingredients and excipients, including binders, fillers, disintegrants, lubricants, glidants, flavours, sweeteners, stabilizers, preservatives and coating materials. · Evaluate powder properties such as particle size, flowability, bulk density, tapped density, compressibility, segregation risk and moisture sensitivity. · Develop and optimize wet-granulation, dry-granulation and direct-compression processes. · Develop and optimize tablet film-coating processes, including coating-suspension preparation, spray rate, atomization, inlet and outlet temperatures, pan speed, drying conditions and target weight gain. · Operate, set up and troubleshoot tablet presses, capsule-filling machines, tablet coaters, coating pans, powder blenders, granulators, mills, sifters, liquid mixing vessels, homogenizers, transfer pumps and filling equipment. · Set and optimize tablet-compression parameters, including fill depth, compression force, turret speed and tablet weight. · Conduct laboratory trials, pilot batches, scale-up batches and process-validation batches. · Transfer formulas and manufacturing processes from development to commercial production. · Establish raw-material, in-process and finished-product specifications and acceptance criteria. · Review manufacturing performance, yields, deviations, rework and production losses and recommend corrective actions. · Support equipment selection, commissioning, qualification and manufacturing-area setup. · Work closely with Quality Assurance, Quality Control, Regulatory Affairs, Production and Procurement. · Train production employees on manufacturing procedures, equipment operation, in-process controls and troubleshooting. · Ensure work complies with applicable GMP, health-product, food-supplement and workplace-safety requirements. Manufacturing Troubleshooting The specialist must be able to investigate and resolve common manufacturing problems, including: · Tablet capping, lamination, sticking, picking and chipping · Tablet weight…

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