Anke Seeger is Exyte's Director of Process Life Sciences for Central Europe. She manages more than 120 engineers across the continent who design and build process plants in pharamceutical facilities. And all these engineers have different specialities. 

It's impressive how she keeps track of them all: "There are very complex processes in the facilities we build for the production of biopharmaceuticals. We have people who deal with simulations, logistics, clean media, or laboratories, for example, And I make sure that the necessary skilled people are in the right place at the right time.

A vast experience in process engineering.

When Seeger started at Exyte more than two decades ago, she planned the facilities herself. Today, she is the manager, but especially in the concept design phase before a new facility is built, she is the contact person for clients as a Subject Matter Expert, finding out exactly what they need and offering the best solution, selected among several options.

Why has Seeger stayed at Exyte for more than twenty years? Apart from the motivated staff and the great team spirit, the main reason is that the job remains full of variety.

"It never gets boring becauase with the change of projects, customers, new technologies, and new people, there are so many challenges that I cannot imagine working for a company that does the same thing every day," she says. 

A very rewarding job 

Seeger has now been with the company long enough to redesign the plants she designed in her early days. "One of my first plants was an insulin factory near Frankfurt. I am currently redesigning it with my team. It's a strange feeling, after so many years, to stand in the factory you designed and think: Wow technology has come such a long way, and knowing what I know now, I would do it differently today," she says with a laugh. 

There are many things that make Seeger's job very rewarding for her: "On the one hand, planning something and then seeing it realized. On the other hand, I work with a great team who are highly motivated and dynamic in their approach to their work and processes."

And then, of course, the result: "At the end of the day, medicines are created that help people all over the world."

In the future, she says, medicine will become increasingly personalized. This will also completely change the processes in the production facilities: "I am doing everything I can to ensure Exyte remains at the forefront of developments."