PHARMACEUTICAL LOGISTICS TECHNICIAN | GMP SCIENCE

This is working with a major partner in the clinical trial, pharmaceutical, and medicine logistics industry. Operating from advanced, temperature-regulated facilities across Australia - and backed by a strong international presence, they provide vital storage and transport solutions for high-value medicines, vaccines, and GMP research-based products.

They work hand-in-hand with hospitals, clinics, universities and scientific institutions, ensuring essential medicines are held and delivered safely and reliably. With multiple industry accolades and a stellar reputation, this organisation is synonymous with quality, care, and innovation.

Despite their global scale, they’ve kept a people-first approach at their core. The team environment is supportive and down-to-earth, with a strong emphasis on it's people, growth and development. Many employees join for the mission and stay for the culture.

Position:

This Pharmaceutical Logistics Technician (internally called a Clinical Operations Tech) will be dealing with incoming and outgoing of clinical trial medicines at the highly regulated 3PL pharmaceutical depot and warehouse. You’ll be hands-on with relabelling, quality control, and cold-chain shipment prep for critical medicine moving across hospitals, research labs, and clinical sites.

You’ll be part of the ops team helping to ensure temperature-sensitive products are stored, labelled, and released correctly-following exact procedures and keeping everything compliant with GMP standards.

Duties include:

- Coordinating inbound and outbound clinical trial medicines
- Relabelling items to be put away in their designation
- Following GMP processes for outbound/inbound shipments




- Entering cold rooms at times to collect or put away medicines
- Ensuring correct documentation, packaging and product temperatures
- Handling orders across +15-25°C, +2-8°C, and -20°C to -30°C environments
- Manually packing shipments in cold boxes with care and accuracy
- Working closely with team leaders, operations managers and pharmacists
- Following SOPs and quality procedures to the letter
- Training others on systems and GMP processes as needed
- Once every 8 weeks hold the on-call phone for that week (precautionary only, on call phone rarely alerted or queried)

The benefits:

- $65,000 - $70,000 base salary + 13% super
- Plus $40/day when you have the on-call phone (once every 8 weeks for 7 days)
- 5% discretionary bonus based on performance
- Join a global leader with internal pathways to grow
- Full training and ongoing upskilling
- Supportive, people-first culture
- Long-term job security
- World-class facility and tech

The experience you need:

You’ll ideally come from a pharmaceutical or science background, exposure to clinical trials is an advantage but not essential. Having knowledge of compliance, labelling, and exposure to industrial environments or depot/warehouse logistics is ideal. This is a detail-focused, hands-on role that suits someone reliable, accurate, and comfortable in fast-paced settings.

Summary of ideal background:

- Ideally experience in pharma, healthcare, science, or GMP environments
- Ideally exposure or experience to in logistics or warehousing
- Physically capable of lifting up to 20kg when needed
- Detail-focused with a robust understanding of SOPs
- Clear communicator - both written and verbal
- Tech-savvy, especially in Microsoft Office
- Calm, responsive, and reliable under pressure

PR or Citizenship is needed due to security for this role.

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📌 PHARMACEUTICAL LOGISTICS TECHNICIAN | GMP SCIENCE (Melbourne)
🏢 Thentic
📍 Melbourne