Country United States
City Pennsville, New Jersey
Functional Area Operations
Job Group Engineering
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
SUMMARY:
Incumbent uses "Recognized and Generally Accepted Good Engineering Practices" (RAGAGEP) - for, operations, engineering and maintenance activities. Incumbent applies established codes, standards, published technical reports or recommended practices (RP) or similar documents including best engineering practices, in all inspection and mechanical integrity activities.
The incumbent manages a project engineer, a controls engineer, a CAD specialist, and an IT specialist. Through a Maintenance Manager and a Maintenance Specialist, the incumbent leads the union maintenance personnel, spare parts storeroom, and utilities departments within a chemical API pharmaceutical and batch plant. Incumbent indirectly oversees mechanical and soft skill contractors, resident and temporary.
ESSENTIAL DUTIES, RESPONSIBILITIES AND ACCOUNTABILITIES:
- Highly focused on EHS practices. Applies Maintenance and Reliability concepts and Mechanical integrity principles to eliminate and prevent incidents, not limited to process, environmental, industrial hygiene, and occupational safety.
- Drives the automation requirements to meet safety, environmental and quality standards with a 5 year plan
- Utilizes mechanical integrity best practices to eliminate quality deviations and proactively implement capital projects to improve the quality performance of the site, including automation.
- Accountable for the evaluation and realization of all capital improvement projects ($2-$10 M/yr).
- Responsible and accountable for both the annual Capital Improvement Plan for each budget year, along with developing and continually updating a site-wide, 5-year Capital Development Plan.
- Directly manages large capital projects as needed
- Accountable for the maintenance planning and scheduling in accordance to mechanical integrity and by applying best reliability practices.
- Drives continuous improvement in the maintenance organization by utilizing best practice- Maintenance- KPIs; not limited to, schedule adherence, emergency vs normal maintenance work, plan versus actual work, Mean Time Between Failure, Mean Time Between Repairs, net working capital ratios in storeroom, etc.
- Utilizes operational metrics like OEE to measure departmental and personal performance with respect to technical availability
- Accountable for the continuous supply of all utilities to production (purified water, steam, electricity, nitrogen, etc.)
- Develops maintenance and engineering departmental budget, cost controls, and is responsible for meeting the agreed-upon budget.
- Ensures the efficiency and continuous improvement of business processes pertaining to the department.
- Possess deep knowledge in regulations and mechanical integrity standards to be in compliance to all but not limited to State and Federal codes, Process Safety and TCPA requirements.
- Participates as the equipment and automation subject matter expert in plant engineering in PHAs and PSSRs and Risk Assessments
- Ensures that ethical, legal and behavioral conduct comply with the Siegfried Code of Conduct.
- Participates as a member of the senior management team in the implementation of strategic directives.
- Collaborates with the defining and structuring of strategic measures.
- Participates in defining and controlling strategic measurements and cost management.
- Understands and applies best mechanical reliability practices in the preventive maintenance programs.
- Familiar with technology available for mechanical integrity
- All other duties as assigned.
Your profile
EDUCATION AND EXPERIENCE:
- An MS in Chemical or Mechanical Engineering or equivalent and 7 years of experience managing an engineering and maintenance department in a pharmaceutical or chemical batch plant environment.
- Proven record of applying Maintenance and Reliability best practices in a manufacturing environment
- Experience in major project management is a must.
- Knowledge of cGMP
OTHER REQUIREMENTS:
- Negotiation and Influential skills are a must
- Superb communication, both in writing and verbally
- Work efficiently with people of all levels and cultures
- Prefer experience with continuous improvement practices utilizing Six Sigma or Lean Manufacturing, etc.
- Demonstrated time management and prioritization skills
- Prefer Certifications on Maintenance and Reliability Professional or Certification as a Project Management Professional or similar.
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 Pennsville
Pennsville is our drug substance manufacturing site for the US mar-ket and provides spray drying operations globally.
Main activities
- Pilot and commercial manufacturing of drug substances (APIs) and related intermediates
- All fully cGMP and SHE compliant
Features
- 3 GMP pilot suites: 0.1–2 m³ reactors
- 200m3 commercial capacity: 1–10 m³ reactors
- Successful transfer of new products to the commercial scale - Powerful rectification
- Spray drying in pilot and commercial scale for both isolation and dispersion technology
- Micronization in pilot and commercial
Strategic importance
- CMO for innovative drug substances and manufacturer of our opiates portfolio for the US market