Country Malta
City Hal Far
Functional Area Operations
Job Group SHE
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
We are seeking an experienced and qualified Safety, Health and Environmental (SHE) Site Lead to join our pharmaceutical manufacturing team in Malta. The SHE Site Lead will be responsible for developing, implementing, and overseeing all SHE policies, procedures, and programs. This role ensures full compliance with Maltese legislation, promotes a strong safety culture, and drives continuous improvement initiatives.
The chosen candidate will be responsible for:
· Ensuring full compliance with Maltese health, safety, and environmental legislation, including OHSA regulations, ERA requirements, and local ATEX directives.
· Act as the Competent Person under Maltese occupational health and safety law (based on L.N. 36 of 2003 and L.N. 44 of 2002 among others).
· Lead the site’s SHE risk assessment processes, including those related to hazardous substances (REACH/CLP), ATEX zoning, and other process safety risks.
· Drive the SHE strategy and oversee the implementation of programs, policies, training initiatives, and audits.
· Foster a proactive safety culture by empowering employees at all levels to take ownership of SHE standards, encouraging open and transparent communication, promoting personal accountability, and actively involve teams in identifying risks, proposing improvements, and driving safe, sustainable work practices.
· Lead SHE-related projects in areas such as sustainability, waste management, energy efficiency, and emergency response planning.
Your profile
· An MQF Level 6 qualification in Occupational Health & Safety, Environmental Sciences, Engineering, Chemistry, or a related discipline.
· Diploma in Health and Safety or equivalent recognized by the Occupational Health and Safety Authority (OHSA Malta) as a competent person under Maltese law.
· A proven previous experience in a similar SHE leading role within a pharmaceutical, or manufacturing industries, ideally in ATEX regulated environments.
· Certified auditor or demonstrated experience in auditing in ISO 45001, ISO 14001, or similar is considered an asset.
· Strong interpersonal skills with the ability to build trust, communicate effectively across all levels, and influence behavior to foster a company-wise safety culture and accountability.
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 Hal Far
Hal Far is our drug product manufacturing site for solid dosage forms. It offers innovative and generic drug products for the global market with a competitive cost structure at Swiss quality level.
Main activities
- GMP commercial manufacturing of solid oral pharmaceutical dosage forms
- Supply of tablets, film tablets, and hard capsules filled with powder or pellets, in bulk or blister packed
- cGMP high-potency suite
Features
- 1 –10 μg / m³ segregated cGMP production areas for high-potency
- 7 GMP suites: Dry & wet granulation, Tableting (up to 2 billion unit p.a.), Capsuling (up to 1 billion unit p.a.), Coating (up to 1 billion unit p.a.), Blistering (up to 100 million blisters p.a.)
Strategic importance
- CMO for innovative and generic drug products for the global market
- Competitive cost structure at Swiss quality level