Position Overview
Blue Door Pharmacies LLC is seeking an experienced Sterile Compounding Pharmacist to join our growing pharmacy team in Rockville, Maryland.
This is a full-time, on-site position with significant responsibility for USP <797> compliance, sterile compounding operations, prescription verification, quality assurance, regulatory readiness, and the safe preparation of patient-specific compounded medications.
Meaningful, recent, hands-on sterile compounding experience is required. This is not an entry-level sterile compounding position, nor is it a position for a current retail pharmacist who is willing to learn USP<797> compliance concurrently.
Candidates who are currently licensed in both Maryland and California will receive priority consideration. See additional licensing requirements below.
Why Join Blue Door Pharmacies?
Blue Door Pharmacies LLC is a family-owned, nationally licensed pharmacy company operating Shady Grove Pharmacy, our patient-facing compounding pharmacy, and Blue Door Pharma, our pharmaceutical distribution division.
We have grown from an independent community pharmacy into a national compounding and prescription-fulfillment platform serving patients, prescribers, healthcare organizations, and multiple telehealth companies across the country.
Our pharmacy provides sterile and non-sterile compounded medications, operates an ISO Class 7 sterile compounding environment, and owns and develops several proprietary formulations across wellness, dermatology, ophthalmology, and other specialized areas of patient care.
We are continuing to grow. The successful candidate must be comfortable working in an evolving environment, adjusting to changing priorities, improving processes, and helping the pharmacy respond to increasing prescription volume, telehealth partnerships, regulatory obligations, and operational demands.
Key Responsibilities
- Provide pharmacist oversight for sterile and non-sterile compounding operations.
- Verify compounded and commercially available prescriptions for clinical appropriateness, accuracy, safety, labeling, and completeness.
- Ensure compliance with USP <797>, applicable USP standards, state and federal pharmacy regulations, company SOPs, and internal quality systems.
- Demonstrate and enforce sterile cleanroom best practices, including hand hygiene, garbing, aseptic technique, material transfer, cleaning, disinfection, workflow, and contamination control.
- Oversee pharmacy personnel engaged in sterile compounding and help ensure that required training, competency assessments, and documentation remain complete and current.
- Review compounding records, formulation records, logs, quality-control documentation, and other required records.
- Support environmental monitoring, personnel monitoring, media-fill testing, gloved fingertip and thumb sampling, cleaning and disinfection programs, and related quality-assurance activities.
- Identify, document, investigate, and help resolve deviations, errors, quality events, complaints, and potential compliance concerns.
- Assist with the development, review, implementation, and continuous improvement of pharmacy SOPs and operational processes.
- Help maintain inspection readiness and support regulatory inspections, licensing reviews, internal assessments, and responses to regulatory inquiries.
- Collaborate with pharmacists, technicians, leadership, prescribers, telehealth partners, and other team members to maintain an accurate and efficient workflow.
- Provide patient counseling and communicate with prescribers when clinical clarification or intervention is required.
- Remain flexible as staffing needs, workflows, technology, prescription volume, and operational priorities evolve.
Required Sterile Compounding Experience
Applicants must have substantial, recent, hands-on experience with USP <797>-compliant sterile compounding operations, including:
- ISO-classified cleanroom practices.
- Proper hand hygiene and garbing.
- Aseptic technique and contamination control.
- Sterile compounding procedures and workflow.
- Cleaning and disinfection requirements.
- Personnel training and competency evaluation.
- Media-fill testing and gloved fingertip and thumb sampling.
- Environmental and personnel monitoring.
- Documentation, quality assurance, and deviation management.
- Regulatory compliance and inspection readiness.
Applicants must be able to provide documented evidence of their sterile compounding qualifications and experience. Documentation may include training certificates, competency records, certifications, continuing education records, cleanroom experience, prior job responsibilities, inspection experience, or other verifiable evidence of proficiency.
Required Qualifications
- Active, unrestricted pharmacist license in the State of Maryland at the time of employment (exceptions will be made for California-licensed applicants. See below).
- Substantial, recent experience with sterile compounding and USP <797>-compliant pharmacy operations.
- Strong working knowledge of applicable pharmacy laws, regulations, USP standards, and professional practice requirements.
- Exceptional attention to detail and a disciplined approach to documentation.
- Ability to identify compliance risks and address them proactively.
- Ability to work independently while remaining collaborative and accountable to the pharmacy team.
- Sound professional judgment and the ability to manage competing priorities in a fast-paced environment.
- Willingness to remain flexible and adjust responsibilities as Blue Door Pharmacies continues to grow.
California Pharmacist Licensure
All applicants MUST either:
- Hold an active, unrestricted California pharmacist license; or
- Be willing and eligible to complete the California pharmacist licensing process, including sitting for and passing the California Practice Standards and Jurisprudence Examination for Pharmacists, or CPJE, within 120 days of employment.
Blue Door Pharmacies LLC will pay or reimburse reasonable, pre-approved application fees, examination fees, licensing expenses, and related costs associated with obtaining the required California pharmacist license.
If you are a licensed applicant from California looking to relocate to Maryland, this dual-state licensing requirement is fully reciprocal (ie you must be willing to sit for your Maryland Boards).
Procedures
Applications will be reviewed through Indeed. Please do not call or contact the pharmacy directly.
Blue Door Pharmacies LLC is an equal opportunity employer.
Pay: $70.00 - $85.00 per hour
Benefits:
- 401(k)
- Health insurance
- Paid time off
- Professional development assistance
- Relocation assistance
Application Question(s):
- Do you currently hold an active, unrestricted Maryland pharmacist license?
- How many years of direct, hands-on sterile compounding experience do you have?
- Have you worked in an ISO-classified cleanroom operating under USP <797> requirements?
- Can you provide documentation of your sterile compounding training, competencies, certifications, continuing education, or related experience?
- Do you currently hold an active California pharmacist license?
- Are you able to work full-time and on-site in Rockville, Maryland?
- f you are not currently licensed in California, are you willing to complete the California licensing process and pass the CPJE within 120 days of employment? (Or reciprocally, if you are currently licensed in CA, are you willing to sit for the MD Boards)
Work Location: In person
