Uquifa is a well-established manufacturer of Active Pharmaceutical Ingredients (APIs) and intermediates for the pharmaceutical and animal-health industries, with over 90 years of experience. The Group supports customers in both development and commercial manufacturing, operating internationally across API and CDMO activities. The Sant Celoni site, situated in the Barcelona area, integrates API manufacturing and R&D; capabilities, operating under cGMP conditions. It has been inspected by major international regulatory authorities, including the US FDA.

About the Role
Are you an experienced industrial leader ready to make a real impact in pharmaceutical manufacturing? Uquifa is seeking an experienced Site Manager to provide senior operational leadership at its Sant Celoni manufacturing site. This broad leadership role is responsible for ensuring safe, compliant, reliable, and efficient operations while enhancing the site's capabilities, performance, and long-term resilience. The role leads core manufacturing and technical functions, including Production, Engineering & Maintenance and HSE, with a functional (non-hierarchical) interface to Quality Control. Logistics, Warehousing and corporate Project Management belong to Supply Chain. The successful candidate will be an industrial leader focused on disciplined execution, productivity and continuous improvement, working closely with Supply Chain without duplicating its responsibilities. Success requires balancing day-to-day execution with safety and regulatory discipline, financial oversight, continuous improvement, people leadership, and long-term site investment. The opportunity As Site Manager, you will provide overall operational leadership for the Sant Celoni site, ensuring all manufacturing and supporting operations are conducted safely, efficiently,



and in line with all relevant quality, environmental, health, safety, and compliance standards. You will lead a multidisciplinary operational organization spanning Production, Engineering & Maintenance and HSE, with functional coordination of Quality Control for site execution needs but without line-management authority over QC. You will work closely with Supply Chain on production scheduling, materials availability, warehouse and logistics interfaces, and with Quality on GMP compliance, inspections and product quality. This role combines day-to-day operational delivery with longer-term site leadership: setting priorities, managing performance and resources, developing talent, overseeing investment and CapEx, strengthening operational discipline, and identifying opportunities to advance safety, environmental performance, and manufacturing capability. The position reports directly to the Operations Manufacturing Director. The Supply Chain Director operates as a peer of the Operations Manufacturing Director in the Group organization; the Site Manager collaborates with Supply Chain through a cross-functional working relationship, not a reporting line. Responsibilities Provide overall leadership for manufacturing and site technical operations, ensuring effective coordination across Production, Engineering & Maintenance and HSE. Work through functional coordination with Quality Control,



without organic reporting or authority over independent GMP quality decisions. Maintain a structured daily and weekly interface with Supply Chain to confirm achievable plans, anticipate material or capacity shortages, manage deviations and agree recovery actions; Supply Chain remains accountable for external delivery commitments. Own the safe, compliant and efficient execution of the agreed production schedule, aligning plant resources, equipment readiness, staffing and technical requirements. Work with Supply Chain, which owns integrated planning, production scheduling priorities, procurement, inventory and logistics coordination; escalate capacity or feasibility constraints promptly. Take accountability for manufacturing performance and HSE outcomes within the Site Manager’s remit, ensuring compliance with applicable legislation, regulations, internal requirements and Group standards, in coordination with independent Quality oversight. Manage budgets for directly responsible manufacturing and technical functions, maintaining cost discipline and visibility into site operational performance; coordinate with Supply Chain on inventory-related and logistics cost drivers without assuming ownership of those budgets. Establish, monitor and report manufacturing and site operational KPIs, including schedule adherence, asset availability, productivity, yield, right-first-time, safety and manufacturing cost; jointly review delivery risks and recovery actions with Supply Chain. Collaborate with the Operations Manufacturing Director and Group Operations to develop and optimize manufacturing facilities and operating solutions, based on equipment capability, manufacturing needs and continuous-improvement priorities. Identify and develop manufa

📌 Site Manager (San Celoni)
🏢 UQUIFA
📍 San Celoni