Country Switzerland
City Zofingen
Functional Area Operations
Job Group SHE
Employment Type Permanent Contract
Working time Full-time
With 150 years of expertise, Siegfried is one of the most trusted and respected partners in the pharmaceutical industry. Guided by our commitment to safety, quality, and sustainability, our diverse team of approximately 3'700 highly skilled professionals take the innovations of our pharmaceutical customers to industrial scale and manufacture safe drugs for patients worldwide.
Your role
We are looking for a Process and Plant Safety Expert (100%) to join our dedicated team at our Zofingen site. This is a great opportunity to be part of a collaborative and dynamic environment where your expertise will be instrumental in ensuring the highest standards of safety and regulatory compliance across our pharmaceutical and chemical processes.
What You'll Do:
- Enforce SHE (Safety, Health, Environment) compliance across development and operations.
- Organize, lead, and document risk analyses (e.g., HAZOP, FMEA, process risk assessments).
- Ensure SHE measures are effectively integrated into operations and approved.
- Review and enhance process and occupational safety instructions.
- Address internal and external inquiries on SHE topics.
- Advise teams on process and plant safety best practices.
- Conduct evaluations and develop safety methods in our safety lab.
- Stay current with safety technology and undergo relevant training.
- Lead internal and external SHE training sessions.
- Review and implement safety-related SOPs.
Your profile
Skills:
- Fluent in German and English.
- Background in chemistry, life sciences, or experience as a chemical/pharmaceutical technician or laboratory technician.
- 2-3 years of professional experience in process safety within the pharmaceutical or chemical industry.
- Solid understanding of process safety, thermal safety, and occupational health requirements.
- Experience in conducting and moderating risk assessments (e.g., HAZOP, FMEA).
- Ability to perform and evaluate safety measurements (e.g., RC1, DSC, Radex, C80).
- Strong organizational skills to manage multiple projects.
- Willingness to adapt and learn new safety technologies.
Strengths:
- Strong commitment to safety with a high sense of responsibility.
- Team player with an organized and solution-focused approach.
- Excellent communication and persuasion skills.
Nice to Have:
- Experience with integrated data management software.
Our Benefits:
- Flexible working hours allow for the balance of family, leisure, and work
- Discounted parking
- Health insurance: Up to 10% discounts on supplementary insurance for you and your partner/family with our partners
- Generous and customizable stock purchase plan
- Family allowance: All eligible employees receiving child or education allowances also receive an additional monthly family allowance
- Child allowance: Siegfried AG increases the child allowance by 10% above the cantonal legal rate
- Individual training opportunities by agreement
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 Zofingen
Zofingen is the hub of the Siegfried Group. The production facility at our Zofingen headquarters supplies our customers around the globe with exemplary Swiss quality. The Siegfried company is a popular employer in the Zofingen region, where we meet our social responsibility by training apprentices.
Main activities
- Development and commercial manufacture of active pharmaceutical ingredients (APIs) and corresponding intermediates
- Fully compliant with cGMP and SHE (Safety, Health and Environmental) standards
Special features
- Manufacture of high potency active ingredients in development and production
- Micronization in development and production
Strategic importance
- Contract manufacturing of new active ingredients