Sterile Compounding Lead 503A (3rd Shift)
Required skills
- Sterile Compounding
- cGMP
- USP
- Aseptic Technique
- Controlled Environments
- Quality Control
- Team Leadership
- Process Improvement
- Regulatory Compliance
- Pharmacy Technician
Nice to have
- AI-enabled tools
- AI-enabled dashboards
- workflow signals
- trend analysis
- digital production systems
- quality documentation platforms
Role summary
The Sterile Compounding Lead is responsible for ensuring safe, compliant, and scalable sterile compounding operations within a highly regulated 503A/503B environment. This role oversees shift-level workflow, aseptic discipline, documentation, technician readiness, and issue escalation, leveraging AI-enabled tools to enhance scheduling, detect process variations, and improve quality. The Lead partners with cross-functional teams to deliver compliant CSP output, reduce risk, and foster a high-accountability culture. Success requires a blend of strategic thinking, execution rigor, and leadership skills to develop others and maintain high standards in a hyper-growth setting.
Empower Pharmacy is a visionary healthcare company dedicated to making quality, affordable medication accessible to millions of patients nationwide. As the nation’s most advanced 503A compounding pharmacy and FDA-registered 503B outsourcing facility, we’re redefining what’s possible in personalized medicine and pharmaceutical manufacturing. We’re proud to be recognized as one of Houston’s fastest-growing private companies and ranked #116 in Healthcare & Medical on the Inc. 5000 List for 2025.
Our strength is built on four core values: People, Quality, Service, and Innovation. Guided by these principles, we’ve created a uniquely integrated healthcare platform powered by advanced technology, operational excellence, and a relentless commitment to patient care. From manufacturing and quality control to distribution and customer experience, our teams work together to raise industry standards, expand access to critical medications, and improve outcomes for patients and providers across the country.
At Empower, joining our team means more than starting a new role. It means becoming part of a mission-driven organization that’s transforming healthcare at scale. We invest deeply in our people, encourage bold thinking, and create opportunities for growth, leadership, and innovation at every level. Your ideas matter here, your development is supported, and the work you do has a direct impact on the lives of millions.
If you thrive in a fast-moving, purpose-driven environment where innovation, collaboration, and ambition come together, Empower Pharmacy is the place for you. Let’s transform healthcare together.
POSITION SUMMARY:
The Sterile Compounding Lead drives safe, compliant, and scalable execution of sterile compounding operations that directly protect patients, strengthen production reliability, and support Empower’s growth agenda. This role owns shift-level workflow, aseptic discipline, documentation accuracy, technician readiness, and real-time issue escalation across a highly regulated 503A/503B environment. By using AI-enabled tools to accelerate scheduling insight, detect process variation, strengthen decision-making, and improve quality at scale, the Lead converts operational complexity into disciplined performance. Success requires experienced talent capable of balancing strategic thinking, execution rigor, learning agility, and the ability to raise standards while developing others. The role partners across Pharmacy Operations, Quality, Training, and Production to deliver compliant CSP output, reduce risk, and build a high-accountability culture aligned with Empower’s hyper-growth operating model, while expanding capacity, consistency, readiness, resilience, throughput, and audit performance.
RESPONSIBILITIES:
Sterile Operations
Quality And Compliance
Team Leadership
Cross Functional Execution
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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.
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