Advanced QC Professional

Are you passionate about quality and motivated by ensuring that Novo Nordisk delivers high-quality products to our patients worldwide? Does driving automated QC solutions, working with equipment and optimizing processes motivate you? If so, you could be our new Advanced QC Professional.

Apply today and start your life-changing career!

The position

You will join MIC3, located at Hagedornsvej which is responsible for conducting virus, mycoplasma, residual DNA and Bacterial Endotoxin Testing (BET). Our test methods differ from traditional microbiological testing, and we need your help to support the automation agenda.

Your primary responsibilities will include:

• Analysis responsible for one of our analytical test method.
• Collaborating with stakeholders in the process of procuring and qualifying robotic solutions and successfully implementing them in our daily operations. 
• Validating and qualifying analysis methods on robots for the BET and resDNA testing.

Your secondary responsibilities will include:

• Assuming the role as back-up responsible for several of the team's analysis.
• Document preparation, including analytical procedures, job instructions, laboratory investigations, and deviation reports, product validations for.
• Supporting the team's laboratory technicians performing the analysis.
• Overseeing your area of responsibility during inspections by various authorities and preparing responses to regulatory queries.

Qualifications

To succeed in this position, you:

• Have a relevant academic degree in natural sciences, such as pharmacy, engineering or similar
• Have ideally 3 or more years’ of experience in a similar role.

• Are experienced in working with automation (e.g. Biomek/PyroTech etc.) and equipment in a QC laboratory.
• Have preferably prior qualification experience and working with TIMS, URS, IQ/OQ/PQ or similar systems.  
• Desire to contribute to process optimization and improvement leading by an example.

The role involves routine work in an operational laboratory, where the day-to-day can be busy and dynamic. Flexibility is crucial, and your ability to contribute to positive working relationships with colleagues and customers is important.

About the department

QC Microbiology is part of Product Supply organization, and we conduct all microbiological analyses on in-process samples, bulk, finished products, raw materials, environment samples, and new products from Novo Nordisk’ R&D pipeline. Our work is crucial in ensuring high-quality products and on-time delivery to more than 60 customer departments. The department consists of five teams that collaborate closely. In total, we have approximately 75 employees in the department, including 16 microbiologists/professionals where the remaining staff comprises of laboratory technicians and managers.

Your team – MIC3 consists of 3 microbiologists and 9 laboratory technicians, with a diverse blend of experience, ranging from newly educated to employees with over 25 years of experience. The team strongly emphasizes mutual support, openness, and fostering a strong sense of community

Working at Novo Nordisk

We are a proud life-science company, and life is our reason to exist. We’re inspired by life in all its forms and shapes, ups and downs, opportunities and challenges. For employees at Novo Nordisk, life means many things – from the building blocks of life that form the basis of ground-breaking scientific research, to our rich personal lives that motivate and energise us to perform our best at work. Ultimately, life is why we’re all here - to ensure that people can lead a life independent of chronic disease.

Contact

If you have any questions about the position, please email Heinrich Dam Jensen at [email protected]

Deadline

5 January 2025

To ensure an efficient and fair recruitment process, please refrain from adding a photo in your CV.

We commit to an inclusive recruitment process and equality of opportunity for all our job applicants. 

At Novo Nordisk we recognize that it is no longer good enough to aspire to be the best company in the world. We need to aspire to be the best company for the world and we know that this is only possible with talented employees with diverse perspectives, backgrounds and cultures. We are therefore committed to creating an inclusive culture that celebrates the diversity of our employees, the patients we serve and communities we operate in. Together, we’re life changing.