KALAMAZOO – Pfizer will cut 275 jobs from its manufacturing operations in Kalamazoo County before the end of the year, reducing Pfizer’s manufacturing headcount in Southwest Michigan to about 2,500.
Company supervisors were announcing plans to workers this morning to further streamline its operations here as part of “ongoing efforts to remain globally competitive,” company spokesman Rick Chambers told the Kalamazoo Gazette. Pfizer will still have about 3,200 employees in the area when the cuts are done.
Chambers said the job cuts will begin in the next few weeks. He did not say how much the company hopes to save by making the change.
The New York-based drug-maker has undergone at least two rounds of cost-cutting initiatives since 2003, intended to slice billions out of the cost of producing pharmaceuticals. Chambers said the cuts announced today come on top of those efforts and affect only the Portage-based operation.
He said the job cuts would not likely include many early retirements or much attrition because many of those cuts were already made in recent years.
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