General Information

Country Germany

City Hameln

Functional Area Human Resources

Job Group HR

Employment Type Defined contract (Siegfried)

Defined Contract Period Other period

Working time Full-time

At its locations around the world, Siegfried offers employees exciting career opportunities in international settings. We cultivate multidisciplinary cooperation and encourage our staff to actively shape and influence their careers. This approach, coupled with our dynamic working environment, make Siegfried an attractive employer.

Your role

Pharmakanten (m/w/d) arbeiten in der pharmazeutischen Industrie in der sterilen Herstellung und stellen an automatisierten Maschinen und Anlagen Arzneimittel her und verpacken diese. Die Produktion von Arzneimitteln erfolgt unter hohen hygienischen Vorgaben. Dementsprechend tragen die Pharmakanten (m/w/d) eine hohe Verantwortung bei der Einhaltung und Beachtung der pharmazeutischen Standards und Richtlinien.
Während der Ausbildung zum Pharmakanten (m/w/d) lernen Sie bei uns die naturwissenschaftlichen und technischen Seiten unseres pharmazeutischen Industrieunternehmens kennen. Ihre Hauptaufgabe wird die sterile Herstellung und Abfüllung von Arzneimitteln sein. Dort werden Sie in unterschiedlichen Produktionsbereichen eingearbeitet und lernen die genaue Handhabung der Ansatz- und Abfüllanlagen kennen. Die optische Kontrolle und die Verpackung der Produkte werden Ihnen ebenfalls vermittelt. In unseren Laboren wird Ihnen die chemische Analytik von Rohstoffen und Fertigwaren beigebracht und Sie erhalten Einblick in die Qualitätsprüfung von flüssigen Arzneimitteln und die mikrobiologische Überwachung des Herstellprozesses. Im Laufe der Ausbildung werden Sie alle relevanten Qualitätsstandards und notwendigen Good Manufacturing Practice (GMP)- gerechte Dokumentation erlernen und anwenden können.

Your profile

  • Mind. Sekundarabschluss I oder berufsbildende Schule z.B. mit Fachrichtung Chemie
  • Gute Noten in Chemie, Physik und Mathematik
  • Interesse an verfahrenstechnischen Betriebsabläufen
  • Sorgfältigkeit, strukturiertes Handeln, Disziplin

Working at Siegfried

Siegfried's work environment is dynamic and international. With a highly professional and motivated team, the company operates in a future-oriented business field. Siegfried possesses a unique culture that leverages cultural differences to create a competitive advantage. Siegfried places highest priority on providing a flexible, diverse and discrimination-free working environment in which employees can develop personally and professionally, advance innovation and deliver superior performance. We strive to provide a work environment where employees can take on challenging jobs and associated responsibilities that best serve their personal and technical development and can benefit from the success of our company. The company regulations in respect of compensation and career development opportunities apply to all Siegfried sites. Additional conditions of employment are governed by location-specific circumstances, legislation and customs.

Who we are

In the Midst of People’s Lives – Across the Globe

The Siegfried Group is one of the world’s leading Custom Development and Manufacturing Organizations (CDMOs) developing and producing active pharmaceutical ingredients (API), intermediates and finished dosage forms. As our core competence, we successfully integrate chemical and pharmaceutical capabilities into a single business model. 

The Siegfried name stands for highest quality, efficiency, flexibility and safety. Present in Europe, Asia and North America, we serve a broad global customer base from major international pharmaceutical companies down to small biologic-pharmaceutical organizations. For them we develop and produce product innovations on a large scale to finished products. We integrate our offer seamlessly into the customers’ value chain. Our comprehensive services range from early-stage Research & Development services such as synthesis, scale-up, formulation development, stability studies and method development all the way through to manufacturing services, ranging from preclinical R&D material for clinical trial purposes to commercial production. 

We are able to produce about 200 of the approximately 1500 registered drug substances used in medicine. Moreover, we produce 20 percent of global demand for caffeine. Consequently, nearly 1 billion individuals come into contact with Siegfried products.

What we do in Hameln

Hameln is a renowned contract manufacturer which supplies both national and international pharmaceutical companies. It has over 450 employees who produce sterile medicinal products, mainly for use in hospitals and intensive care facilities.

Main activities

  • Contract manufacture of parenteral solutions and suspensions – aseptic or terminally sterilized in ampoules and vials
  • Specialist in the production of complex preparations such as anesthetics, flammable and oxygen-sensitive liquids and cold chain products

Special features 

  • Successful transfers and establishment of new products in sterile production
  • Batch size: up to 3500 liters
  • Clean room area: 4000 m²
  • Batch manufacture and filling of sterile products, from visual inspection through to final packaging

Strategic importance

  • Contract manufacturing for parenterals