Country United States
City Pennsville, New Jersey
Functional Area Operations
Job Group Production
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:
The incumbent manages all technical aspects of assigned products and/or new processes in manufacturing. This includes preparing batch log records and cleaning log records, supporting production, conducting investigations, implementing corrective actions, and improving yields and cycle times.
ESSENTIAL DUTIES, RESPONSIBILITIES AND ACCOUNTABILITIES:
-Works closely with Chemical Development, Production, and Quality Departments.
-Manages the transfer of assigned products and/or new processes into manufacturing.
-Determines and monitors actual manufacturing costs for assigned products.
-Identifies and implements cost reduction projects.
-Provides technical support to production for assigned products.
-Acts as manufacturing representative on capital projects involving assigned products.
-Conducts product/process failure investigations as appropriate.
-Adheres to personal moral, ethical, legal, and behavioral conduct that is in compliance with the Siegfried Code of Conduct.
-Implements and adheres to all applicable SHE, DEA, and cGMP regulations.
SUPERVISION:
The incumbent must be able to give technical instructions to chemical operators.
Your profile
EDUCATION AND EXPERIENCE:
-A 4-year degree in Chemical Engineering and 5-10 years of hands-on experience in a pharmaceutical batch plant are required.
-Hands-on experience with tech transfers as well as in-depth knowledge of process engineering and cGMP regulations are required.
OTHER REQUIREMENTS:
-Must have excellent verbal and written communication skills.
-Must be very conscientious and detail-oriented.
-Must be able to work efficiently with people of all levels and cultures.
-Must be a team player.
-Must be a self-starter and initiator.
-Must have good computer skills (word, spreadsheet, presentation).
-Must be able to manage projects and prioritize appropriately.
-Must have knowledge of organic chemistry.
-Must have knowledge of standard process equipment.
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