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Pill maker operator jobs in Finland

Pill maker operators tend the pilling machine that create pills in various sizes and shapes. They also fill the machine with necessary materials, open valves to control the flow of the materials, and regulate the temperature of the machine.

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Pill maker operator – how much is the pay in Finland?

What the trade paid in 2024

Hourly earnings in Finland 2024 — occupation group 8131 Chemical products plant and machine operators, Statistics Finland table 15az, CC BY 4.0.
Median19.99 €/h
Bottom tenth14.69 €/h
Top tenth28.22 €/h
Employees6,579

Pay by sex, 2024

Median hourly earnings by sex in Finland 2024 — occupation group 8131 Chemical products plant and machine operators, Statistics Finland table 15az, CC BY 4.0.
SexMedianEmployees
Women18.11 €/h2,194
Men21.12 €/h4,385

Pill maker operator - Which skills are essential?

The offered pharmaceutical products, their functionalities, properties and legal and regulatory requirements.

The legal and other requirements associated with the pursuit of pharmacy activities.

Operate machines to create pills for medicinal purposes.

Prepare prescription labels, select the type of prescription container and attach the prescription labels to the container.

Maintain proper storage and security conditions for medication.

Types of protective materials and equipment foreseen for various types of tasks such as general or specialised cleaning activities.

Ensure that medicines are stored in appropriate facilities and environmental conditions to ensure stability, quality and safety of the medicinal product over its shelf life, storing medicines in a safe, organised, systematic and secure manner and working with documented policies and procedures to implement an effective stock management and rotation system.

Continuously check up on the automated machine's set-up and execution or make regular control rounds. If necessary, record and interpret data on the operating conditions of installations and equipment in order to identify abnormalities.

Ensure the machine is fed the necessary and adequate materials and control the placement or automatic feed and retrieval of work pieces in the machines or machine tools on the production line.

Adhere to standards of hygiene and safety established by respective authorities.

Measure and adjust temperature of a given space or object.

Monitor and accordingly adjust the valves in order to allow a specific amount of liquids (such as ammonia sulfuric acid or viscous soap) or steam into the mixer or machine.

Pill maker operator - Which skills are useful but not essential?

Provide advice to customers on what medical products can be used for various medical conditions.

Review and dispense medicines and validate prescriptions ensuring that they are authentic, correctly interpreted and in line with legal requirements, selecting the correct medicine, strength and pharmaceutical form in accordance with the prescription, package and label of medicines.

Guarantee the correct distribution of the pharamacy products.

Formulate and compound medicines performing pharmaceutical calculations, selecting the appropriate route of administration and dosage form for the medicine, the appropriate ingredients and excipients of the required quality standard, and preparing pharmaceutical products.

Comply with the regional and national legislation that is relevant to one`s work and apply it in practice.

Prepare the pharmaceutical form of medicinal products according to the prescription received from the medical doctor.

Perform the printing of the institution identity on pills using the pill branding laptop.

Participate in inventory control and safe storage of materials and re-order supplies.

Maintain the required pharmacy records such as files, charge system files, inventories, control records for radioactive nuclei, and registries of narcotics, poisons, and controlled drugs.

Scoop medicinal preparations into the capsulating machine's filling hopper

Regularly check medication in pharmacy, wards and units, for expiry dates, replacing the expired drugs according to standard procedures.

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Sources

Wage data: Statistics Finland, wage structure statistics, table 15az, year 2024. Read 2.10.2026. Licence CC BY 4.0.

This service uses the ESCO classification of the European Commission.

How we calculated these figures