Team Leader Sterile Filling - Night Shift
EMEA, CH, Kanton Bern, Bern, CSL Behring
Key information
- Publication date:22 August 2025
- Workload:100%
- Place of work:EMEA, CH, Kanton Bern, Bern, CSL Behring
Job summary
CSL Behring is a leading biotech company committed to saving lives. Join us to develop life-saving therapies in a dynamic environment.
Tasks
- Lead the night shift for the sterile filling line operations.
- Oversee team management and daily task coordination.
- Ensure compliance with quality standards and production goals.
Skills
- Experience in pharmaceutical production or food technology required.
- Strong leadership and teamwork skills essential.
- Proficient in technical operations and problem-solving.
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CSL Behring is a globally leading biotech company committed to its promise to save lives. In Bern, we develop and distribute life-saving therapies for people with severe and rare diseases worldwide with over 1,800 employees.
For the Filling Line / Lyophilisation area within the Production department, we are looking for a
Team Leader Sterile Filling - Night Shift
To manage planned capacity increases, a permanent night shift (Monday to Friday, 11:00 p.m.–5:00 a.m.) is currently being established, in the development and establishment of which you will actively participate. This night shift will start after a thorough onboarding phase of about 12 months in the existing shift model (2-shift operation, Monday to Sunday, 5:00 a.m.–11:00 p.m.).
In this position, you report directly to the head of the filling line. You take on the professional and personnel responsibility for a team of several employees. As part of your duties, you carry out manufacturing processes on a routine system for filling sterile medicinal products.
You are responsible for the high-quality, timely, and quantitative execution of production orders under strict compliance with all applicable regulations and quality standards.
Your tasks essentially include:
- Leading the night shift including handing over relevant information to the early shift
- Professional and personnel management of a team of about 10 employees as well as coordination of daily tasks
- Creation and implementation of personnel planning
- Promotion and development of employees
- Recruitment and training of new team members
- Setting clear goals, promoting teamwork, and creating a responsible working environment
- Monitoring the entire filling line in routine production, coordinating with relevant interfaces, and troubleshooting equipment malfunctions
Active participation in the production process within a production zone and the cleanroom as well as professional support of the team, especially in:
- Operation and monitoring of production equipment
- Performing format changes
- Conducting material incoming inspections, line clearances, and in-process controls
- Performing general housekeeping and cleaning tasks
- Complete documentation of all performed work including in electronic systems
- Compliance with all relevant work regulations, SOPs, and GMP guidelines
- Role model for compliance with all guidelines for good manufacturing practice (GMP), hygiene, safety, as well as environmental and health protection
- Preparation and support during internal and external inspections
- Technical contact person for your own area of responsibility
- Proactive involvement in projects for process optimization
Qualifications & Professional Experience:
- Willingness to work permanent night shifts
- Completed vocational training in the pharmaceutical or food technology field or several years of professional experience in the pharmaceutical industry
- Solid experience handling complex production equipment, ideally in sterile filling
- Proven experience in professional and personnel leadership of employees
- Structured, solution-oriented, and independent working style with high quality awareness in a GMP-regulated environment
- Strong technical understanding
- High social competence, teamwork skills, resilience, and reliability
- Very good PC skills
- Fluent German language skills in spoken and written form
Do you feel addressed? Then we look forward to your online application. Your application should include a cover letter, a resume/CV as well as work certificates and copies of diplomas in the original language and/or relevant transcripts. Please combine your files, including the CV, into one document.
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About CSL Behring
CSL Behring is a globally leading company that develops and distributes high-quality therapeutics for people with rare and serious diseases. With our medicines for the therapy areas of immunology, hematology, cardiovascular and metabolism, respiratory diseases, and transplantation medicine, we keep our promise to improve the quality of life of patients in more than 100 countries. Learn more about CSL Behring .
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EMEA, CH, Kanton Bern, Bern, CSL Behring
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