Equipment Responsible for API expansion project

Would you like to become a key part of our future project aiming at expanding our Active Pharmaceutical Ingredient (API) capacity? Once completed the facility will employ approximately 350 colleagues and feature highly automated and state-of-the-art technologies for new processes and products.

We are looking for several Equipment Responsibles to contribute to API manufacturing processes, manage projects, uphold quality standards, and ensure the highest quality in our multi-product facilities for the 25L project at site Hillerød. Apply now and join us!

The position

As an equipment responsible or engineering responsible you'll work together with project team leaders, area leads and external partners, vendors to test, and commission production lines for a new capacity expansion project.

Your responsibilities will include:

• Managing smaller projects within the main project
• Ensuring GMP and quality standards are met.
• Commissioning, validating of equipment and processes.
• Communicating and following up with engineering partners and suppliers.
• Ensuring the new facilities in the factory meets the highest standard of quality and can be maintained and operated efficiently.
• Supporting system lead on various tasks.

You will have the opportunity to work with colleagues from different backgrounds, experience level and nationalities and being involved in a new capacity expansion project where you can influence our future API production and contribute to the future API manufacturing processes.

As part of your job duties, you'll be required to participate in supplier tests that will involve travel.

Qualifications

The ideal candidates should have the following qualifications:

• An academic degree within Engineering, preferably in Process, Manufacturing, Chemical or mechanical engineering.
• Experience as equipment responsible/engineer from GMP regulated production (Upstream or Downstream processes) or experience in projects developing GMP production facilities is a must.
• Experience working with media prep/hold, bioreactor, harvest, buffer hold, purification equipment and components such as pipes, valves, and instruments.
• Experience with project management will be considered as an advantage.
• Full proficiency in oral and written English.

As a professional, you should be able to work independently, take initiative, and have a forward-thinking outlook. Furthermore, you enjoy collaborating, learning, and sharing information with others, whilst you are driven by achieving great results together with colleagues from different backgrounds and cultures.

Excellent communication and collaboration skills are essential, enabling you to interact effectively with  stakeholders from different functions and parts of the organization.

About the department

By becoming a part of the 25L project, you will be joining the PS API Expansions team. The area is anchored in Novo Nordisk Product Supply, Quality & IT, which globally employ approximately 30,000 of Novo Nordisk’s 64,000 employees. 

PS API Expansions is a newly established and growing area with the responsibility to design, plan and build all major API Expansions projects across Novo Nordisk to serve the needs of millions of patients.

We build and design our future API facilities as multi-product facilities with flexibility to accommodate future processes and display state-of-the-art technology and working environment. We focus on delivering the highest quality to patients globally in an efficient and environmentally sustainable way.

We are setting the standards for the future, designing facilities we will still be proud of many decades from now. We drive world class execution of capacity projects, and together we are building the future of Novo Nordisk.

Working at PS API Expansion, Novo Nordisk

You will be joining PS API Expansions. The area is anchored in Novo Nordisk Product Supply, Quality & IT, which globally employ approximately 30,000 of Novo Nordisk’s 64,000 employees. 

PS API Expansions is a newly established and growing area with the responsibility to design, plan and build all major API Expansions projects across Novo Nordisk to serve the needs of millions of patients.

We build and design our future API facilities as multi-product facilities with flexibility to accommodate future processes and display state-of-the-art technology and working environment. We focus on delivering the highest quality to patients globally in an efficient and environmentally sustainable way.

We are setting the standards for the future, designing facilities we will still be proud of many decades from now. We drive world class execution of capacity projects, and together we are building the future of Novo Nordisk.

Deadline

24 November 2024. We will process applications as we receive them, so please do not hesitate to apply.

You do not need to attach a cover letter to your application, but please include a few sentences about why you are applying in your resume or CV. 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.