Balvinder Kaur
Production operator
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About
Dedicated, reliable, and target-driven Production and Warehouse Operative with extensive experience across pharmaceutical manufacturing, industrial logistics, food production, and retail environments. Proven track record of operating effectively in high-speed, fast-paced contract lines and permanent setups while maintaining 100% adherence to GMP standards, SOP compliance, Controlled Drugs (CD) room regulations, and workplace Health & Safety procedures. Exceptionally flexible to undertake day, night, or weekend shift patterns and fully available for an immediate start.
Experience
Warehouse & Production Contractor (Various Temporary Assignments) - FDM Group, AAH Pharmaceuticals, Paragon - Romford
(2025-12 - 2026-05)
- Pharmaceutical Packing: Operated within a high-security Controlled Drugs (CD) room environment at AAH Pharmaceuticals, packing medical supplies with absolute precision and cross-checking labels against order sheets.
- Machine & Mail Sorting: Managed industrial mail-sorting machinery at Paragon to process large commercial volumes safely, classifying items by postal codes and removing damaged materials.
- Assembly Line: Worked efficiently on fast-paced manual production lines at FDM Group, achieving demanding output targets and ensuring high packaging standardisation.
- Maintained flawless workstation hygiene, personal protective equipment (PPE) compliance, and strict site safety logs across all fast-paced industrial short-term placements.
Production Operator - Ethypharm - Romford
(2023-01 - 2025-09)
- Packed pharmaceutical products including ampoules, syringes, needles, and tablets within highly regulated GMP environment.
- Performed detailed quality control checks utilizing XMV inspection machinery to identify and report packaging defects instantly.
- Maintained absolute alignment with complex standard operating procedures (SOPs), sanitisation requirements, and COSHH regulations.
- Assembled secondary retail cartons, attached shipping documentation, and prepared heavy logistics pallets for safe freight transport.
Sales Assistant & Stock Controller - Poundstretcher - Romford
(2020-08 - 2024-01)
- Delivered excellent customer service and handled high-volume secure point-of-sale cash and electronic payments.
- Managed daily shop floor stock replenishment, conducted stock rotation, logged waste sheets, and unloaded heavy inbound inventory safely.
Production Operator - Stoneglow Candles - Romford
(2022-08 - 2022-11)
- Packed luxury candles, fragile diffusers, and premium gift sets efficiently against hourly manufacturing batch targets.
- Applied promotional labels, shrink-wrapped retail finishes, and organized secure storage boxes for logistics handling.
Production Operator - Greencore Foods Factory - Bromley-by-Bow
(2021-06 - 2022-07)
- Operated within high-volume, continuous food assembly lines to prepare and pack fresh chilled retail products.
- Enforced flawless food safety hygiene standards and maintained personal sanitation routines in accordance with HACCP rules.
Machine Operator (Industrial Textile Machinery) - Knitways International - Ludhiana, India
(2005-02 - 2014-10)
- Operated and calibrated heavy manufacturing knitting machinery, tracking automated fabric weave patterns and logging technical errors.
Education
Higher Secondary Certificate - A-Level Equivalent - S.D.P girls College (1997-03)
Secondary School Certificate - GCSE Equivalent - S.D.P Senior Secondary School (1996-03)
