General Information

Country France

City St. Vulbas

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.

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 St.Vulbas

Siegfried St. Vulbas is a facility specialized in custom synthesis of active ingredients and intermediates for the pharmaceutical industry. The chemicals plant, built in 1993, employs nearly 150 people in a wide variety of fields, ranging from production, laboratories and logistics to quality assurance, safety, administration and more. 

Main activities

  • Production in strict compliance with quality standards (GMPs)
  • Ensuring perfect compliance with safety, health protection and environmental standards

Unique features

  • 141 m³ production capacity: reactors from 2 to 8 m³
  • Highly flexible plant that can be quickly adapted to different processes
  • 2 cryogenic reactors: 4 and 16 m³, – 100° C
  • Highly qualified, flexible staff in all departments 

Strategic impact

  • Facility highly specialized in niche technologies
  • Ability to tailor processes to customer needs
  • Manufacture of products in the development stage (chemical phase) or market-ready custom synthesis and generic products.