Health and Safety Work Permit Partner

Are you committed to safety during maintenance and construction activities using IT work permit systems? While also motivated to collaborate with stakeholders and implement practical solutions?  

If yes, here's a unique opportunity to make an actual impact on our ability to navigate challenges and uncertainties.  

Apply now for the role of Health and Safety Work Permit Partner in our Health & Safety team in the Sustainability Partnering department at Køge.  

The position 

In this role you will contribute to the safety and stability of our business, ensuring that we can effectively plan and execute our maintenance and construction activities through the implementation and use of the IT system at our locations. In this way protecting our people and assets, mitigating risks and fostering a sense of preparedness and confidence within our organization. 

In this job you will be responsible for:  

• Collaborate across Novo Nordisk Pharmatech’s (NNPR) whole value chain to ensure effective maintenance and construction activities and provide advice, guidance, and support to management for decisions 

• Manage various processes related to maintenance and construction activities, including leading the implementation and maintenance of Permit Vision at NNPRs two locations in Køge. 

• Act as subject matter expert during life cycle management and investments projects 

• Implement initiatives and audit activities, including training relevant stakeholders. 

• Represent NNPR in relevant national, regional networks related to work permit processes.  

Qualifications 

To succeed in this role, we imagine that you have: 

• A Bachelor’s degree  with 5+ years’ experience with relevant work, ideally from a pharmaceutical/biopharmaceutical production. 

• A strong focus work permit processes, hot work and high-risk activities and risks, LOTOTO and health and safety within a maintenance and construction context. 

• Excellent verbal and written communication skills within both Danish and English. 

• Ability to negotiate the right solutions within our business needs, and an interest in both strategic and hands-on tasks. 

As a person, you will thrive in this role if you appreciate a diverse workday with hands-on tasks, facilitations and presentations, data crunching, reporting and project group participation with key deliveries. You have high personal drive and a positive attitude enabling you to pursue key focus areas and achieve results. You are good at communication and training, and you can communicate complex subjects in a simple way. You have a qualitative and analytical mindset with a proactive, structured, and systematic approach to tasks. Your colleagues will see you as highly motivated, flexible, and friendly, but also persistent and able to get things done. 

About the department 

You will be a part of the Sustainability Partnering department at NNPR with two teams: Environment team, Health & Safety team, and employees within project portfolio and sustainability. The Health & Safety team consists of 10 employees including you. We work diligently to support NNPR embracing diversity and inclusion, whilst focusing on having a fun and encouraging a curious working environment.  

Novo Nordisk Pharmatech A/S is a 100% owned subsidiary of Novo Nordisk located in Køge. We are more than 480 people covering the entire value chain from R&D and Business Development to Manufacturing, Marketing and Sales. NNPR is a global and leading manufacturer of pharmaceutical ingredients for the pharmaceutical and biopharmaceutical industries. Our purpose is to enable better medicines, enabling better lives by providing sustainable pharmaceutical materials through innovative and customized solutions. Our product range consists of quaternary ammonium compounds (QUATs), Recombinant Insulin, Customized Purification Resins, and Specialty Enzymes. 

Working at Novo Nordisk 

At Novo Nordisk, we don’t wait for change. We drive change. We’re a dynamic company in an even more dynamic industry, and we know that what got us to where we are today is not necessarily what will make us successful in the future. We embrace the spirit of experimentation, striving for excellence without fixating on perfection. We never shy away from opportunities to develop, we seize them. Working at Novo Nordisk is working toward something bigger than ourselves, and it’s a collective effort. Novo Nordisk relies on the joint potential and collaboration of its more than 40,000 employees to change the lives for the better for millions of patients living with diabetes and other chronic diseases. Together, we go further. Together, we’re life changing. 

Contact 

If you would like to know more about the position, please contact Associate Manager of the Health & Safety Team, Graham Stenning on mobile number +45 31 97 01 03 

Deadline

12th September 2024 

Applications will be evaluated continuously, and candidates may be called for interview before the deadline, so please apply as soon as you can. You do not need to attach a cover letter to your application, but please include a few lines about your motivation in your resume or CV. Additionally, please avoid the use of photos in your CV. This provides a better and more fair process. 

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.