PAT Scientist

Do you want to use your PAT expertise to set global standards, or are you just starting your career and eager to apply your knowledge of MATLAB and spectroscopy techniques, or chemometrics in the industry? Do you thrive troubleshooting, managing lifecycle updates, and integrating procedures with cutting-edge systems? As PAT Scientist with us, you’ll ensure PAT and Off-line NIR methods meet validation requirements and provide scientific support across global production sites. Sounds interesting? Then apply now and join us in making global impact!
 
The position
In this role, you will be responsible for global methods for PAT and Off-line NIR procedures across manufacturing sites. Your main responsibilities will include to:
•    Ensure PAT/NIR methods are fit for the intended use and in a validated state.
•    Drive and support Life Cycle Management activities e.g., update of models, revalidation, performance, and transfer methods across production sites and QC labs.
•    Participate/lead method troubleshooting/investigations across sites by analyzing data to identify anomalies and propose solutions.
•    Provide scientific support on PAT/process to production on a global scale.
•    Participate in a cross-organizational collaboration with sites (local QC, local IT, and Local Production, QA).
 
Qualifications
To succeed in this role, you need to:
•    Hold a MSc or a PhD degree in pharmacy, chemistry, engineering, food science, or a related field. We welcome applications from both recent graduates and seasoned PAT methods scientists.
•    Be experienced in mathematical modeling using MATLAB.
•    Have skills or experience with some spectroscopy techniques such as NIR and Raman for in-line, on-line, at-line, or off-line methods.
•    Ideally, have skills/experience with chemometrics.
•    It will be advantageous if you have experience with Python, SIMCA, or SynTQ and if you have worked with PAT implementation in a GMP environment in the pharmaceutical industry or in medical devices or food industry.

 
On a personal level, you enjoy working with people from different professional backgrounds in a global and dynamic environment. You have a positive mindset and approach to challenges, you seize opportunities and have a holistic and data-driven approach to reaching your goals. You also need to be fully proficient in English.
 
About the department
The position is in the Launch & Scaling department in the Manufacturing Science and Technology area in Emerging Technologies. This area is part of Novo Nordisk’s oral solid dosage units, where we validate, optimize and maintain analytical methods for oral products and support QC around the world to get tablet products for patients living with obesity, diabetes, and any future oral solid dosage treatment for other dis-eases to the market. 
 
The department currently consists of around 50 employees, including professionals, laboratory technicians, project managers and managers, distributed in three teams. 
 
Working at Novo Nordisk
At Novo Nordisk, we don’t wait for change. We drive it. 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. From research and development, through to manufacturing, marketing and sales – we’re all working to move the needle on patient care.
 
Contact
For further information, please contact Manager Agnete Krabbe Katholm at +4530777208
 
Referral 
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Deadline 
25 March 2025
 
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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.