General Information

Country United States

City Irvine, California

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

Responsible for supervising the daily operations (products and people), in a unit. Ensuring the adherence to all regulatory and safety requirements and fulfilling production output, quality and time requirements. Develop and maintains a team environment with high levels of participation from all production associates. Responsible for the aseptic filling of all products assuring processes are performed in compliance with cGMP's and following Standard Operating Procedures (SOPs).

Responsibilities

  1. Responsible for scheduling and supervising designated operations
  2. Participate in planning production actives
  3. Ensures that personnel is effectively utilized to meet production needs
  4. Ensure compliance with GMP, ISO 90001, regulatory requirements, dept/bldg. Safety rules and applicable company policies and procedures
  5. Utilize human resources effectively, train and coach and provide developmental opportunities for personnel to increase cross training and scheduling flexibility
  6. Evaluate the performance of personnel; recommend salary and or promotional actions. Take appropriate actions to resolve marginal performs.
  7. Maintain a positive working environment that encourages personnel participation, team work and mutual support
  8. Coordinates actives with materials managements, QA and engineering to insure production, productivity and quality standards are met.
  9. Responsible to implement safety policies and ensure that personnel are trained in and follow safe work procedures
  10. Ensure proper maintenance and work place organization of equipment and work area
  11. Maintain and supply raw material budgets within approved levels.
  12. Set goals and measures with the Manufacturing Manager. Work with minimal supervision to perform duties and assignments. Seeks input and guidance on complex problems or new activities
  13. Solve and trouble shoot routine daily operations problems.
  14. Empowered with authority to act, by making decisions that ensure the safety of all personnel.
  15. Make decisions that ensure the quality and integrity of the product.

Your profile

Required Knowledge, Skills and Abilities

  • Understanding of lot control relative to medical industry
  • Understanding of Good Manufacturing Practices and ISO Standards
  • Ability to lift 50 pounds
  • Good communication and interaction skills
  • Ability to work overtime as necessary
  • Computer literate
  • Ability to handle multiple tasks
  • Ability to interact with numerous departments
  • Ability to work without independently and delegate tasks as necessary

Required Education and Experience

  • Minimum High School graduate or equivalent
  • Preferred Bachelor’s degree in Science or Engineering
  • Preferred 3-5years’ industry experience directly associated with aseptic manufacturing
  • Preferred 2 + years related supervisory experiences
  • Equivalent combination of education and/or experience may be considered
Salary Range: $90,000 - 100,000/year

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 Irvine

Irvine is one of Siegfried’s sterile drug product manufacturing sites, providing contract development and manufacturing services (CDMO) specializing in difficult to manufacture pharmaceuticals, ophthalmics, and drug delivery devices.

Main activities

  • Provides cGMP sterile drug product fill finish of biologics, suspensions, emulsions, ointments, and gels
  • All fully cGMP and SHE compliant

Features

  • Commercial Products: 5 automated filling lines, Commercial manufacturing, Batch sizes up to 150 K units, Fill Volumes 0.5 ml – 100 ml
  • Semi-automated and automated visual inspection
  • Automated packaging with digital data visual verification
  • Stability study services
  • Drug delivery
  • Laboratory services
  • Clinical Products small lot capability (semi-automated filling, batch sizes up to 5 K units)
  • Clinical manufacturing (batch sizes less than 5 K units)

Strategic importance

  • CDMO for innovative and difficult-to-manufacture products from clinical to commercial NDA and ANDA products
  • Provides contract sterile drug product manufacturing and laboratory services to the pharmaceutical and biotechnology industries