General Information

Country Germany

City Minden

Functional Area Research & Development

Job Group QC

Employment Type Permanent Contract

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

  • In Ihrer Rolle untersuchen sie Pharmawirkstoffe, Zwischenprodukte und Rohstoffe mittels HPLC, GC sowie gemäß der gültigen Arbeitsvorschriften 
  • Die zugehörigen Analyseergebnisse werten Sie entsprechend aus, um sie anschließend zu dokumentieren und zu archivieren 
  • Zudem wirken Sie bei der Ausarbeitung und Überprüfung neuer Untersuchungsmethoden sowie bei der Durchführung von Methodentransfers und Verifizierungen mit
  • Die Wartung, Reparatur sowie Kalibrierung von Geräten gehören ebenso zu Ihren Aufgaben

Your profile

  • Sie haben Ihre Berufsausbildung zum Chemielaboranten oder eine ähnliche Qualifikation erfolgreich abgeschlossen
  • Zudem verfügen Sie bereits über Laborerfahrung und fundierte Analytik-Kenntnisse 
  • Der sichere Umgang mit HPLC und GC ist Ihnen ebenso vertraut wie die Arbeit in einem GMP-regulierten Umfeld
  • Kenntnisse in der Bedienung von Massenspektrometer sind von Vorteil
  • Ihre Englischkenntnisse sind gut 
  • Sie sind bereit, im vollkontinuierlichen Schichtdienst zu arbeiten
  • Ein eigenständiger und sorgfältiger Arbeitsstil sowie analytisches Denkvermögen runden Ihr Profil ab

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 Minden

For the last 80 years, Siegfried PharmaChemikalien Minden GmbH has been producing active pharmaceutical ingredients (APIs) and the corresponding intermediates at its Minden facility, to meet worldwide demand from the pharmaceutical industry. We also produce ingredients for the cosmetics and food industries.

Main activities

  • Development and commercial manufacture of active pharmaceutical ingredients (APIs) and corresponding intermediates 
  • Fully compliant with cGMP and SHE (Safety, Health and Environmental) standards

Special features

  • Handling of high potency substances in development and production
  • Comprehensive handling of solids in production
  • Production capacity: 1450 m³
  • Reactors: 0.2–30 m³
  • Handling of highly toxic substances in encapsulated plants
  • Successful transfers of new products into commercial production
  • Biotechnology implementations

Strategic importance

  • Contract manufacturing of new active ingredients