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 solid 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 strong 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