Process Engineer

"Expect to grow", personally and professionally: At Siegfried, we offer exciting challenges and ample opportunities to showcase your talents. As a trusted and respected partner to the pharmaceutical industry, we uphold the highest standards in safety, quality and sustainability, while fostering a culture that empowers you to thrive. Join a rapidly expanding global company, where diverse perspectives and experiences come together in a collaborative environment. Here, you'll find a workplace that values both collective success and your individual contributions—offering long-term opportunities to grow and make an impact.

Your Role:  

The Process Engineer provides technical leadership for the transfer of established API manufacturing processes between production units or facilities. The incumbent is responsible for evaluating existing "donor" processes—including equipment configurations and automation logic—and engineering the necessary adaptations for "receiver" units that may have different equipment scales or lower levels of automation. This role works in direct partnership with the Site Project Manager to execute the technical scope of a $10M–$20M capital portfolio.

Your Profile:

ESSENTIAL DUTIES, RESPONSIBILITIES, AND ACCOUNTABILITIES:

• Technical Process Evaluation: Conducts deep-dive evaluations of existing production processes at the donor site, documenting current equipment capabilities, piping layouts, and automation sequences.
• Technology Transfer & Adaptation: Leads the technical transfer of API processes by identifying "gaps" between donor and receiver assets. This includes adapting mass and heat balances to account for different vessel geometries or manual vs. automated additions.
• Engineering Design Documentation: Independently prepares and updates PFDs, P&IDs, and Equipment Specifications required to modify the receiver unit to accept the new process.
• Equipment Sizing & Troubleshooting: Performs technical calculations for equipment sizing and "fit-for-purpose" assessments when moving processes to units with different technical constraints.
• Automation Gap Analysis: Works with site automation teams to simplify or adapt complex control sequences for units with lower-tier automation systems.
• Capital Project Support: Acts as the Lead Process Engineer for individual projects within the $10M-$20M portfolio, ensuring technical deliverables are met from conceptual design through commissioning.
• Process Improvement: Identifies and recommends methodological improvements to reduce manufacturing costs or debottleneck processes during the transfer phase. Challenges current state of art to provide cost effective and project goal-oriented solutions
• Stakeholder Technical Support: Provides technical evaluations to the Project Manager and Business Development to support project feasibility and cost estimations for new transfers

EDUCATION AND EXPERIENCE:

• Education: A Bachelor’s or Master’s degree in Chemical Engineering is required.
• Experience: 6–9 years of professional experience in process technology or operations management within a pharmaceutical (API/CDMO) environment.

• Core Competencies:
  • Transfer Expertise: Proven experience in transferring established processes between different manufacturing units or facilities.
  • Design Proficiency: Advanced ability to create and interpret P&IDs, mass/heat balances, and equipment specs.
  • Analytical Skills: Experience performing "fit" assessments for legacy equipment and manually-intensive processes.
  • Regulatory Knowledge: Deep understanding of cGMP, ICH Q7A, and Process Safety Management (PSM).

SUPERVISION:

The incumbent works independently under minimal supervision while reporting primary technical results to their supervisor. The role requires excellent cooperation with production, technical, and operations departments to ensure successful project outcomes

Your Benefits: 

OTHER REQUIREMENTS:

• Must have excellent verbal and written communication skills to interact with all levels of the organization.
• Must be a self-starter and initiator, capable of managing multiple projects in parallel.
• Must be willing to travel to various sites as required for project oversight.

Siegfried USA will explore and provide reasonable accommodations to assist any qualified individual with a disability in performing the essential functions of his/her job.  Please speak with HR should you require accommodation or have any questions.

Founded in 1873 in Zofingen, Switzerland, Siegfried has grown into a global network of 13 sites across three continents. With a team of more than 3,800 highly skilled professionals, we take the innovations of our pharmaceutical customers to industrial scale and manufacture safe drugs for patients worldwide. As a fully integrated CDMO, Siegfried is one of the few organizations today that can carry out the development and manufacturing of APIs and finished dosage forms under one roof. This unique combination of know-how and experience makes us the most trusted partner in the pharmaceutical industry.