Working at Lonza in Houston, TX: 4 Employee Job Reviews by Real Employee working in Houston, TX Area

"SS inside dumpster fire. This is probably the best description of Lonza Houston that I've been able to come up with . After costing Celgene stockholders $6.2 billion in CVR in the BMS Celgene merger, former employees of Lonza Houston are informing on the atrocious work environment of Lonza Houston. Either by luck or by design Bristol Myers Squibb sure knew what it was doing when it selected Lonza Houston as its CMDO the production. After the abysmal FDA inspection in December of 2020 and failing to acquire the needed licensure Bristol Myers Squibb was not required to pay CVR. Things are pretty bad when your own employees are informing stockholders how bad the situation is at your facility I wish them all the luck. I don't know who to blame more Bristol Myers Squibb for snookering Celgene stockholders or Celgene stockholders for not doing their due diligence in examining the dumpster fire that is Lonza Houston"

"Lonza Houston The Adult Day Care of the Biotech Industry. Working at lonza Houston, is like working in a daycare with kids that have a d h d and there is no Ritalin. There is a lot of running around a lot of firefighting but not a lot of productive work. And they will remain a silly people until they get serious about solving problems and moving forward. Last year's FDA inspection and force out of inept management and site lead only solved superficial problems. If there are other Alternatives available please take them working here it's just not worth the aggravation or the time. There are a lot better biotech options available even in the Houston area."

"Clown car of Biotech industry Working at Lonza is like being trapped in special education class with special need kids without their medication. Last year FDA inspection (google, lonza 483s) only scratched the surface of Lonza Houston systemic problems. As a results only slight cosmetic fixes were put into place. Force out of inept managers and directors lead to only to slight improvements. The truth problems with Lonza Houston lie much deeper and are far more systemic. If other options are available, please pursue them, the level of dysfunction here is unbearable."

"As one walks up to the impressive building at Pearland, Tx with Stucco façade one can easily be overwhelmed by its massive size and impressive exterior of the building . As one walks pass the large desk area and conference rooms one can also be fooled by the façade here also. At this point one maybe fooled by their façade, but you are in for a very rude awakening for the true nature lays just ahead. The production area is where the revelations of the true nature of Lonza start to manifest itself to people. The production corridors resemble the set of the TV show Sanford and son. Equipment is strewn about haphazardly in the corridors along with carts. The production rooms are straight out of the TV show Hoarders. The production rooms are stacked full of waste containers, parts (some clean and some who knows what its status is) and unsupervised personnel running about. The batch record is scattered into a million pieces like fallen confetti from a ticker tape parade. Yet, this is only a small glimpse of the true nature of Lonza Houston. The fact of the matter is that Lonza of Houston is nostrum remedium. This is their true nature; they are selling snake oil from the back of a wagon (cGMP manufacturing) to unsuspecting mostly startup companies. SCO is totally nonfunctional; the MS&T group is staffed with sociopathic liars and management should be cleaning out the fried cookers at the local fast food outlet instead of ineptly running a biopharma plant. Commonplace cGMP practices are a punchline. Things like contemporaneously, performed by/verified, documentation of cleaning, taking rinse and swab cleaning samples of equipment. Having operators sign on uncontrolled printouts. Proper change control well that’s just” silly talk”. Worker safety is at a minimal and seldom a consideration. Some workers are required to put in as many as 20 hours per shift and are barely conscious enough to drive home. Also working in crowded conditions poses a whole series of risk to their safety"