Senior Quality Engineer

Are you eager to advance your career with a globally expanding company while mastering quality specifications? Does diving into complex challenges and building expertise spark your excitement? Do you thrive on spotting opportunities for improvement, driving innovative solutions, and building strong collaborations across diverse teams?

If so, you might be our new Senior Quality Engineer. Read on to find out more and apply today!  
 

The Position

As a Senior Quality Engineer, the overall objective will be to develop and maintain the global quality specifications for packed products and secondary packaging materials in Novo Nordisk. These specifications are setting the requirements for all packaging lines and the quality level for our finished packed product.

Your tasks will be very varied and include supporting packaging lines across the world in interpretation or application of specifications and supporting sites during audits and inspections.

You will be responsible for: 
•    Quality Frame Specifications for Packed Products and Printed Packaging Materials.
•    Frame Methods for the quality control of Printed Packaging Materials. 
•    Prepare and drive Change Requests, with deviation handling back-up.
•    Back-up for Sec Pack Responsible - risk management and system engineering.
•    Stakeholder Support and ad hoc Product Maintenance support.

Qualifications

To be considered for this position you should hold:
•    An academic degree (A bachelor’s degree, master’s degree or a PhD).
•    At least 5 years’ experience in writing specifications, rationales, SOPs, or other documentation.
•    Experience within pharma, which is preferred.
•    Fluency in written and spoken English.

On a personal level, you have a quality mindset paired with a keen interest in packaging. An exceptional eye for detail, combined with the ability to see the bigger picture and develop thoughtful solutions, is highly valued. You are a team player, have a proactive approach, and forge strong partnerships with stakeholders. 

Navigating global stakeholder interests requires outstanding communication and interpersonal skills to build alignment and deliver results. Motivation, adaptability to a fast-paced environment, and the capability to mentor junior engineers are key traits that will help you excel.

About the Department

You will join the SecPack Maintenance team, part of the Packaging VP area in Finished Products MSAT (FPMSAT) supporting packaging of Novo Nordisk finished products, primarily pen injectors and tablets.

In SecPack our main task is to safeguard, optimize product OEE performance and maintain the secondary packaging for our medical devices and combination products marketed by Novo Nordisk.  

In FPMSAT are we bridging product development to production and driving development and standardisation of new, smarter packaging processes. Furthermore, we are responsible for establishing packaging capacity worldwide for new and marketed products in compliance with current regulatory requirements and in close interaction with the Novo Nordisk global production sites. We have an end-to-end presence from device development to production implementation and support to running production. 

FPMSAT Packaging department is situated in Hillerød and consists of around 100 employees divided into different 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 hiring manager Franziska Juchmes at [email protected].

Deadline

4 December 2024.

However, we will review applications and conduct interviews on an ongoing basis, so we encourage you to apply as soon as possible.

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.