The transition will take up to three years, Cephalon spokeswoman Karen McCollum said Tuesday.
Many of the jobs coming to Salt Lake will be filled locally. The rest will be filled by Cephalon employees who will transfer to the company's 300,000-square-foot facility near Salt Lake City International Airport, McCollum said.
Cephalon has invested $100 million in the Salt Lake plant in the past four years, she said, and the company noted in a February news release that "Cephalon has developed into one of the largest life-sciences companies in Utah."
At the time, the Salt Lake facility employed 212 people.
McCollum couldn't say what the new jobs will pay or exactly what kind of jobs they are.
"It's a manufacturing facility, so the jobs are closely associated with manufacturing medications," she said.
- Paul Beebe
