Junior & Senior Professionals for API Manufacturing

Are you the one who gets crazy ideas and pursue them with enthusiasm even though others may tell you it is difficult or even impossible? Are you curious about new technology and engaged in optimizing processes and workflows using innovative thinking and new solutions? Are you the type of person who approaches challenges with a data-based mindset, cross-disciplinary collaboration, and a humble attitude towards the fact that there are often more sides to the same issue? Then we have the right position for you in our Biotech & Rare Disease API production in Gentofte, as part of our process support team, in an engaging and dynamic work environment. The position As operational professional, you will be part of a team of academics and technicians who support the daily production. The production process consists of chromatographic purification, column packing, freeze-drying, automated cleaning (CIP), and environmental monitoring among others. You will have a special focus on our automated cleaning processes (CIP) of the production equipment taking up approximately half of your working tasks. This includes, among others, verification/validation activities and support of the continuous cleaning monitoring activities. For this, you will also be part of our newly established cleaning group within the team. In general, you work closely with various professional groups in a fast-paced production environment to ensure quick and stable delivery of product to the next level in the value chain, while maintaining the high level of quality that characterizes Novo Nordisk. Furthermore, you will:

Handle and document errors and communicate knowledge and learnings to colleagues in the team as well as in production. When challenges arise in production, you have the overview, take the initiative, and involve your colleagues, so that the problems are solved quickly and efficiently.

Have an ongoing and engaged dialogue with your colleagues across production about how to ensure quality, improve our working methods, and avoid mistakes.

Have different working tasks ranging from dialogue with colleagues about how to best make things work in a practical context, assessment of data and documentation, systematic problem solving, and project work to drive optimizations and innovation.

Some days, quick actions are needed. Other days there will be room for dedication and exploration of new ideas. Together with the rest of the team, you will also be part of a 1st line rotation schedule that ensures easy access to support for production. Qualifications To succeed in this role, we expect you to have:

An academic degree within natural science, engineering or similar

+3 years of experience with pharmaceutical production and automated cleaning activities (CIP) in a GMP-regulated environment for the senior position.

Excellent communication skills at different levels, and the capacity to work extremely well in collaboration with others across professional groups.

Full proficiency in oral and written English. At least an intermediate level in Danish is required.

You thrive in an everyday life where work tasks vary from documentation and data processing in front of the computer to fast-paced problem solving with operators on production shopfloor. As a person, you are energetic, engaged, and helpful. You keep calm, have sense of humour and contribute to a positive atmosphere and culture in the workplace, where tasks and plans can change quickly in the context of an unpredictable production environment. You have a humble and listening attitude when faced with low-practical challenges and viewpoints of others, and you thrive on feedback and openness. We work and stand together as a team, meaning that you get energy from helping others, building relations to people and, if necessary, put the teams needs ahead of you own needs to make a strong community in the department . About the Department API (Active Pharmaceutical Ingredient) Denmark is part of Biotech & Rare Disease (BRD). At our sites in Gentofte, Hillerød, and Kalundborg, we are more than 600 colleagues working together to manufacture the API used in life-saving medicine for people living with serious chronic diseases. We work with advanced chemical and biotechnological processes such as cultivation, recovery, purification, and freeze-drying. We bring value to our patients by providing the cleanest possible high-quality API made in accordance with Good Manufacturing Process (GMP) while constantly optimising our processes. Working at BRD, Novo Nordisk Biotech & Rare Disease (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 to people living with serious chronic diseases, but we also use our competences in biotech to support the growing efforts into completely new production platforms and therapy areas for Novo Nordisk. We are more than 3000 dedicated colleagues working at six production sites in Denmark and the United States. Here we cover the entire production value chain where raw materials are cultivated, purified, formulated, filled, assembled in devices, packed, and distributed across the globe. As more and more people need our products, we support Novo Nordisk's initiatives in new therapy areas. Every day, we work to streamline and expand our capacity through process innovation, automation, and the introduction of new technology. Contact If you want to know more about the position, please contact Associate Manager Steven V. Rødkær on +45 3079 7169. Application Deadline 15 October 2023. Please note that applications will be reviewed continuously, so you are encouraged 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.