General Information

Country United States

City Pennsville, New Jersey

Functional Area Operations

Job Group Maintenance

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

ESSENTIAL DUTIES, RESPONSIBILITIES AND ACCOUNTABILITIES:

  • Responsible for the scheduling and executing the site's maintenance work within the highest safety standards, cGMP and good engineering practices
  • Schedules and executes maintenance work in collaboration with production and work priority to minimize plant downtime and maximize equipment reliability
  • Creates assign and reviews the daily/weekly schedule compliance at the end of the week  Identifies causes for schedule variance, and makes corrections to scheduling process as necessary, reports the results as a KPI
  • Provides the results and data to the planner for the KPI tracking, e.g., maintenance schedule adherence, number of emergency WOs, MTTR, (meantime to repair), bad actor list, etc.
  • Utilizes and maintains the Computerized Maintenance Management System (CMMS) for work order planning and scheduling and equipment historical files 
  • Ensures 24 X 7 maintenance coverage by the maintenance department
  • Manages the Yearly Maintenance Shutdowns
  • Reviews planned and closed work order reports to ensure work orders are closed correctly and with the pertinent documentation and feedback for the crafts and ensures adequate quality and completeness
  • Manages the preventive maintenance (PM) program following cGMP.  Continuously reviews the PM program and work orders to ensure the appropriate level of preventative maintenance and compliance 
  • Develops and manages the maintenance expenses to budget 
  • Effectively manages both the PM and regular work order backlogs and recommends methods to reduce backlog as necessary (contract, increase headcount, cancel low priority work, etc.)
  • Collaborates with project engineers in the evaluating design and troubleshooting of issues that may arise during projects
  • Communicates with internal customers (production and other initiators of maintenance work) to ensure maintenance provides timely services meeting all expectations
  • Responsible for the appropriate level of maintenance spares inventory in SAP
  • Works to predict/prevent equipment failures, and provides support to site Equipment Reliability program
  • Responsible to ensure preventative maintenance files/calibration records are complete
  • Provides the necessary mechanic skills and safety training
  • Ensures that personal and departmental ethical, legal, and behavioral conduct is in compliance with the Siegfried Code of Conduct and laws and regulations
  • Other duties as assigned

Your profile

EDUCATION AND EXPERIENCE:

  • A BS in Engineering with 5 to 10 years of experience or  7–15 years of experience working in a maintenance department in various roles in a pharmaceutical or chemical batch plant environment
  • Experience in managing a unionized maintenance staff
  • Extensive knowledge on installing/maintaining equipment in a bulk pharmaceutical/chemical manufacturing plant, including dryers, centrifuges, reactors, tanks, milling, heat exchangers, pumps, chillers, valves, piping, electrical, PLC and instrumentation.
  • Familiar with regulatory requirements and cGMP
  • Be able to read and understand technical drawings.  This includes simple single line diagrams and P&ID’s to detail drawings.

OTHER REQUIREMENTS:

  • Have excellent verbal and written communication and work efficiently and be a team player
  • Time management skills (excellent sense of urgency); prioritization abilities
  • Be self-motivated with an excellent work ethic and demonstrate value added results
  • Have good computer skills (MS Office). 

Siegfried USA will explore and provide reasonable accommodations to assist any qualified individual with a disability in performing the essential functions of his/her job.  Please speak with HR should you require an accommodation or have any questions.


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