Curious Automation Engineer with PCS experience

Are you eager to be part of an ambitious and collaborative team that will help you acquire skills regarding DeltaV and the interface to PAS-X? Are you also interested in helping us connect more production data to our Data Lake to produce smarter?
Join our IT/OT Support team as our new Automation Engineer. Apply today! About the department Our department Digital Data & IT - Product Supply – Biotech & Rare Disease – API covers 6 teams supporting the API production, IT Compliance and IT Projects across the area.
You get the opportunity to join the IT/OT team that supports the production department in Gentofte, Denmark, responsible for producing Human Growth Hormone.
Our IT/OT Support team consists of 6 skilled and very committed IT and automation engineers, and we are growing. We service an automation system that primarily consist of PAS-X MES system and DeltaV PCS system.
We are proud to have a team culture where we share knowledge and learnings, and we promote a working environment where we help and support one another. The position As an Automation Engineer, you will:
• play a central role in maintaining and optimising our DeltaV applications, while ensuring stability and support our production lines with your expertise, when they need help for problem solving. If there is a variation in a process, you will be part of the team identifying the root cause and initiating corrective and preventive measures as quickly as possible.
• be assisting with implementing code changes, conducting some of the required tests and producing qualification documentation.
• be working in close cooperation with the colleagues from across the production, getting to know exactly why and how things do what they do. In this way, you will build valuable experience in an ambitious setup, where good ideas are positive contributors in changing peoples’ lives.
• be handling many stakeholder requests and be expected to quickly build a broad knowledge of our setup, allowing you to navigate the interconnectedness of systems, processes and equipment, when variations arise or impacts of improvements need to be assessed.
• join cross-organisational networks of peers, allowing you to build to your know-how and knowledge of how things are done in a state-of-the-art organisation, where specialists, experts and supporters are all eager to share their experience. When you are ready for learning more, we have major projects in our department, that you can become part of. Upgrade of Delta V, implementing MES PAS-X and Delta V in a sister department and digitalize paper-based processes is among some of the future projects, that you will be involved in. Qualifications To succeed as an Automation Engineer, you:
• Have an academic education within engineering or IT development. Perhaps you are a recent engineering graduate with a strong curiosity for production processes and equipment, and with the desire and ability to handle a steep learning curve.
• Have some experience and understanding of how a virtual IT system is built and run in daily operations.
• Have experience with PCS or Scada-systems.
• Have technical curiosity that allows you to understand the details of a complex, extensive production setup.
• Have a strong desire to achieve process knowledge and provide the best solutions in close cooperation with our production.
• Thrive in ensuring that all your work is well documented.
• Have experience with LEAN tools in a GMP environment – it will be an advantage. On a personal level, you are confident that your fact-based solutions are solid, and always have the argument to back it – making it easy for you to energise your surroundings to help you take your solutions from idea to implementation. You are positive, outgoing and you manage to create overview, simplify and explain complex technical contexts to colleagues with different backgrounds than your own – from operators, skilled workers and specialists with heavy hands-on experience, to quality assurance, inspectors and management, with different approaches and levels of technical insight. You look forward to be a proactive and positive part of a great team and invest your skills in ensuring a stabile delivery of a life-changing product. Freedom with responsibility is a key value to us. As part of that, we expect strong engagement, constructive collaboration, knowledge sharing, and that you are flexible and ready to make an extra effort when needed. In return, we promise you a safe and rewarding work environment where you can develop your skills and build experience in a market-leading facility - here your knowledge and your effort is appreciated, and you can be sure to make a difference. 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 Maria Monajemzadeh Thrane, IT/OT Manager at [email protected] or phone: +45 34480264 Deadline
18 February 2024.
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.