Senior Equipment Specialist for LCM

Do you want to be a part of a department responsible for the readiness and optimization of our critical aseptic filling capacity? Are you considered an expert within strategic approach to life cycle management (LCM), improving, and maintaining aseptic production equipment? Do you want to be part of developing and implementing our next generation of aseptic filling equipment? If yes, apply now for a life-changing career in this newly established position!
The position
As our new Senior Equipment Specialist, you will be a part of our team responsible for the technical support for a broad variety of filling equipment, focusing on optimization and maintenance of their validated state. To ensure that the equipment is ready for production within the pharmaceutical industry's requirements, you will be the owner of the filling line’s life cycle management strategy setting clear direction for both maintenance of the current setup as well as implementation of new production technologies. As a specialist you will serve as a coach for the daily support with expert knowledge for handling incidents, change requests, deviations, and cross organizational projects as well as be as having a crucial role during inspections. We see this as an essential role to success of our manufacturing line and you will therefore participate in the management meetings to provide input and share your expertise. You will also be sharing your expert knowledge with our process scientists and engineers to continuously improve our filling line to serve more patient living with rare diseases worldwide.
Qualifications
You will be a great asset to our team because you have: • Extensive technical knowledge of equipment within an aseptic filling line, including qualification, implementation, maintenance, and improvement
• Experience in strategic approach to life cycle management and predictive maintenance. High GMP understanding
• A solid lean toolkit or other continues improvement / operational excellence toolkit to ensure a proactive maintenance approach.
• A relevant academical degree with technical skills within mechanics, chemistry, manufacturing or similar
• Full professional proficiency in English
On a personal side, you have a natural way of engaging and communicating with all types of stakeholders in a manufacturing facility as well as presenting to board and department meetings. You have a curious and strategic mindset when looking at the life cycle management of our equipment. Your structured approach or project management toolbox helps you follow through and implement your improvement ideas that will drive change both for our filling line and our patients around the world.
About the department
Our team is part of the Biotech & Rare Disease (BRD) Finished Products Gentofte and Vaarloese area that is the production site situated close to Copenhagen. Here we are app. 620 colleagues who take responsibility for transforming Active Pharmaceutical Ingredients into the finished product that patients can use all over the world. We are producing at full speed on existing lines while building and ramping up new state of the art facilities. Our complex processes require a high level of expertise, commitment, and engagement from our employees and include formulation, filling, freeze-drying, product inspection, assembly, and pack. We bring value to patients by delivering high-quality Good Manufacturing Process (GMP) compliant products in a timely and cost-efficient manner. We drive change by working actively with LEAN and always looking for improvements within our processes, but also in the way we work together to make our products reach as many patients as possible. Working at BRD, Novo Nordisk
BRD is part of Novo Nordisk Product Supply, which is a global production network at the forefront of technology and quality production of pharmaceutical products. In BRD we are not only supplying all Novo Nordisk products for Rare Diseases, but also using our competences in Biotech to support the growing efforts into completely new production platforms and therapy areas for Novo Nordisk. We are app. 2650 colleagues committed to drive change for people with serious chronic diseases. We produce our life-saving medicines out of five state-of-the-art production sites in Denmark and United States - covering the entire production value chain where raw materials are cultivated, purified, formulated, filled, assembled in devices, packed, and distributed across the globe. Not only are we making a difference for patients – we also strive to make a difference for our employees by promoting a learning culture with high level of trust, innovation, and development for everyone. Are you ready for a life-changing career? Contact
For further information, please contact Brian Jürs at +45 3079 1373. Deadline
29 January 2023. 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. In addition, 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.