PI System Engineer (AVEVA/OSIsoft)

Are you motivated by joining an area with unparalleled growth, where Active Pharmaceutical Ingredients (API) for future Novo Nordisk products is being developed and produced? Are you an experienced PI System Engineer looking for your next challenge in the pharmaceutical industry, where data and automation technologies are key to our success? Are you eager to take part in developing, implementing, and operating our Data Historian Platform to support our data strategy in CMC API Pilots?

If yes, we have an exciting opportunity for you as our new PI System Engineer, where you will play a key role in ensuring the foundation for our data strategy and data availability in our API manufacturing facilities. Come join us for a life-changing career. Apply today!

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The position
As PI System Engineer you will become part of an ongoing expansion project in CMC API Pilots aimed to handle the increased demand from Novo Nordisk. In this connection, data from our API facilities are essential to develop new product for our patients. Our Data Historian Platform plays a central role in making data available for reporting, batch release and manufacturing intelligence. The platform is based on the PI system technology from Aveva (formerly OSIsoft). 

You will have a strong voice in the development, infrastructure, compliance and daily operations of our Data Historian Platform, to ensure and strengthen our ability to use data for product release and manufacturing intelligence. Your responsibilities summed up:

• Designing, implementing, and maintaining PI system infrastructures, and troubleshoot problems in the PI system.
• System Management (e.g. configuration and Performance Monitoring).
• Working with data analysis to manage time series data, develop and analyses within the PI AF environment, and create visualizations and reports.

To succeed in this position, it is important that you have the courage to proactively take on assignment that you don’t necessarily know the solution to. You will have support from you colleagues and this position offers a steep learning curve together with many exciting technical challenges. This position is based onsite Bagsværd/Denmark.

Qualifications
You have a higher academic or technical education within IT, Computer Science, Automation, Engineering or similar. Furthermore, you have:

• +3-5 years of experience and knowledge of OSIsoft/AVEVA PI system (PI experience from the pharma industry is seen as an advantage).
• Great passion for working with interfaces, data and technical problem-solving to optimize PI system performance.
• Strong understanding of the OSIsoft/AVEVA PI System architecture, including PI Data Archive, PI Asset Framework (AF), PI Vision, PI Interfaces and RtReports
• Programming and integration skills/languages such as Python, PowerShell or .NET, C# and experience with AF SDK and APIs for integrating to the PI system.
• Fluency in written and spoken English (some Danish skills is seen as an advantage).

Our work is performed according to cGMP, hence it is expected that you possess a systematic and effective approach to your planning and tasks.

We are looking for a proactive and communicative team member, who has a high level of initiative and drive as well as a high degree of professional curiosity and strong problem-solving skills to solve technical challenges. As a person, you work independently and thrive in an environment where new challenges and focus can change quickly, but we never compromise on the overall common goal in mind. 

About the department

As part of Novo Nordisk PSQIT organisation, Chemistry, Manufacturing and Control (CMC) Development & Scaling makes a real difference for patients with chronic diseases across the world. We develop, manufacture and distribute drug candidates for clinical trials and have a strong culture with a “can do” mind-set. 

CMC API Pilots manufacture and control new drug substance candidates for the development portfolio at Novo Nordisk. The project department is organised within CMC API Pilots, that will own and operate the new API facilities. We are a department with approx. 100 employees, who are responsible for completing the major investment project to expand our API production capacity for new pharmaceutical candidates for clinical trials in Novo Nordisk.

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

If you have any questions, please contact Senior Manager, Lene Juul Pasgaard, at: +45/3448 2102.

Deadline

14 November 2024

We will conduct interviews on an ongoing basis, so please submit your application as soon as possible.

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

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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.