Specialist Chemistry and Pharmaceutical Technologist

At its worldwide locations, Siegfried offers its employees exciting career opportunities in an international environment. We foster multidisciplinary collaboration and encourage our employees to actively shape and influence their careers. This approach, combined with our dynamic work environment, makes Siegfried an attractive employer.

Your Role

• Performing demanding syntheses of pharmaceutical intermediates on various complex multipurpose plants
• Carrying out drying and milling processes
• Taking the lead within a plant team and serving as a contact person for interfaces
• Flexible deployment within the plant park to cover peak loads
• Supporting the shift supervisor in guiding and supervising (new) employees, as well as troubleshooting problems and clarifying causes
• Assisting in ensuring compliance with safety and GMP guidelines within the shift group
• Proactively contributing to the continuous improvement process within chemical/physical production and implementing assigned technical and/or work process-related optimizations

Your Profile

• Completed training as a chemistry and pharmaceutical technologist, chemical technician, or comparable qualification
• Several years of experience in chemical production, good knowledge in chemical engineering/plant technology, combined with the ability to pass on existing knowledge to colleagues during training
• Professional leadership experience (mentoring, team leadership) desirable
• Knowledge or ability to operate all plants within the assigned departments
• Acts as a role model for safety and GMP behavior within the shift team and provides support when needed
• Can take on a role as team support within the group and intervene as a moderator in conflict situations due to high social competence
• Loyal personality with a positive, motivating attitude – "can do mentality"
• Fair and open communication style with employees and supervisors
• Resilient personality who tackles difficult tasks and has high flexibility to respond to various problems

Our Benefits

Flexible working hours enable the compatibility of family, leisure, and work

You can park with us at a discounted rate

Health insurance: discounts of up to 10% on supplementary insurance with our partners

Generous and individually customizable stock purchase plan

Child allowance: Siegfried AG increases the child allowance by 10% compared to the cantonal legal rate

Individual training opportunities

Paid coffee breaks; the well-being of our employees is important to us

Reka money: Siegfried AG grants employees a 20% discount

Attractive company pension fund

Staff restaurant / cafeteria: meals at preferential conditions

Central location: close to the train station with very good public transport connections

Working at Siegfried

The working environment at Siegfried is dynamic and international. With a highly professional and motivated team, the company operates in a future-oriented business field. Siegfried has a unique culture that leverages cultural differences to gain a competitive advantage. Siegfried places the highest value on a flexible, diverse, and discrimination-free work environment where employees can develop personally and professionally, drive innovation, and deliver top performance. We strive to create a work environment where employees can take on challenging tasks and associated responsibilities that best serve their personal and professional development and benefit from the success of our company. The company policies regarding compensation and development opportunities apply equally to all Siegfried locations. Additional working conditions depend on site-specific circumstances, legislation, and customs.

Who We Are

In the midst of people's lives - across the world The Siegfried Group is one of the world's leading Custom Development and Manufacturing Organizations (CDMOs) that develop and produce pharmaceutical active ingredients (API), intermediates, and finished pharmaceuticals. As our core competence, we successfully integrate chemical and pharmaceutical expertise into a single business model. The name Siegfried stands for highest quality, efficiency, flexibility, and safety. With locations in Europe, Asia, and North America, we serve a broad global customer base, from large international pharmaceutical companies to small biopharmaceutical companies. For them, we develop and produce product innovations on a large scale up to the finished product. We seamlessly integrate our offering into the customers' value chain. Our comprehensive range of services extends from early research and development services such as synthesis, scale-up, formulation development, stability studies, and method development to production services ranging from preclinical R&D material for clinical trial purposes to commercial production. We are capable of manufacturing about 200 of the approximately 1500 registered drugs used in medicine. In addition, we produce 20 percent of the global demand for caffeine. Nearly 1 billion people come into contact with Siegfried products.

What We Do in Zofingen

At our headquarters in Zofingen, we develop and produce active ingredients (API) and corresponding intermediates. This also includes the production of highly potent active ingredients. Furthermore, we offer chemical process development as well as pharmaceutical services. We supply our global customers with exemplary Swiss quality and operate fully in compliance with cGMP and SGU standards.