Maintenance Engineer

The Siegfried Group is a global life science company with a network of 13 sites across Europe, the USA, and Asia. Siegfried offers contract development and manufacturing of active pharmaceutical ingredients, intermediates, and drug products. Siegfried employs over 3,700 people and generated sales of 1.3 billion USD in 2023. Siegfried Holding AG is listed on the SIX Swiss Exchange (SIX: SFZN).

Siegfried's Acceleration Hub is the latest addition to the Siegfried network. Located in Grafton (WI), we provide comprehensive support to customers in from early phase pre-clinical and clinical development, through scale up and validation up to and including commercial manufacturing of Drug Substances.

Within this context, we are currently looking to fill the newly created position of Maintenance Engineer. In this role you will focus on prioritizing and coordinating maintenance activities, manage inventory, and you will work closely with the maintenance manager and technicians to troubleshoot and resolve issues. You will lead the predictive and preventive maintenance programs to ensure the reliability and optimal performance of equipment.

Your role

Oversee the predictive maintenance program to preempt equipment failures and improve system reliability.
Prioritize, plan, and coordinate corrective and preventive maintenance work orders, collaborating with initiators, identifying work scope, and organizing resources, parts, and labor across trades.
Provide engineering support on maintenance-related issues, including root cause analysis, equipment performance evaluation, and minor redesigns or specification adjustments for improved efficiency.
Monitor equipment performance and proactively identify critical equipment requiring condition monitoring; implement programs for regular analysis to minimize breakdowns.
Optimize and maintain the Computerized Maintenance Management System (CMMS) by defining data standards, tracking maintenance work, and recommending adjustments to preventive maintenance schedules.
Manage and advise on maintenance inventory, ensuring necessary spares are kept at optimal levels, and make recommendations for stock, surplus items, and rental equipment.
Develop and refine maintenance standards, outage plans, and overhaul strategies, regularly reviewing them to ensure cost-effective, efficient, and complete execution.

Your profile

Bachelor’s degree in Manufacturing, Maintenance, or Chemical Engineering or a related technical degree
2–3 years of relevant experience within the pharmaceutical industry
Strong expertise in the design, installation, repair, and reconditioning of pharmaceutical equipment, including dryers, centrifuges, reactors, heat exchangers, pumps, PLCs, and instrumentation
Ability to read and interpret technical drawings, including P&IDs, single-line diagrams, and isometrics
Skilled in identifying and implementing critical equipment monitoring techniques for preventive maintenance and reliability
Experience redesigning equipment to extend operational life and minimize maintenance needs based on trend analysis and failure history
Familiarity with cGMP requirements, regulatory standards, facility certifications, PM programs, and Blue Mountain, SAP or similar CMMS is a plus
Excellent organizational and communication skills, with the ability to manage projects, prioritize tasks, and work collaboratively with diverse teams

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 Grafton

The Siegfried Acceleration Hub in Grafton specializes in early-phase development and manufacturing services, including services for projects with highly potent APIs.

Competencies

· Early-phase development and manufacturing

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