Shutdown Project Manager

Do you have what it takes to plan, coordinate, execute, and optimize the yearly shutdowns of our Aseptic Filling lines? Are you passionate about ensuring the smooth functioning, reliability, and efficiency of our production processes while adhering to safety, quality, and regulatory standards? If so, we want you to join our team as a Project Manager and take charge of driving our success to the next level. The position
Our production lines are currently undergoing several upgrades driven by the introduction of new products, optimization initiatives and compliance or obsolescence of hardware and software. As a result, we are seeking a Project Manager to join our shutdown team and handle overall planning, coordination and execution of summer and winter shutdowns of our Aseptic Filling capacity at site Gentofte, including documentation, ensuring, and releasing filling capacity.
Additionally, in the interim periods between shutdowns, you will be managing planning and communication with the various departments, project portfolios, and stakeholders, which is key to ensuring all activities are accounted for and aligned with across the organization. You can also expect to be assigned as Project Manager to improvement projects in our project portfolio.
Your main responsibilities:
• Planning, executing, and following up on all tasks/processes related to scope, schedule, resources, cost, quality, and project risk.
• Stakeholder management with line of business and all levels of management at our production site, as well as external vendors.
• Ownership of shutdown planning, reporting, and documentation.
• Identify and manage key stakeholders and steering groups related to your projects.
• Actively contribute with learnings and experiences with the rest of the Project Management Office (PMO) team to mature and strengthen our ability to run shutdown projects more efficiently. Qualifications
To succeed in this role, you have:
• A bachelor’s or master’s degree in Life Science, Engineering, or similar, along with a minimum 3-5 years of relevant experience.
• A proven track record as Project Manager successfully leading technical projects in a complex organization.
• Experience in working cross functionally and building relations with stakeholders and steering groups at different organizational levels.
• Experience with aseptic production or from a Good Manufacturing Practice regulated environment is an advantage.
• Excellent communication skills in both written and spoken Danish, preferably also in English.
As an individual, you are a self-starter, who is capable to set direction and drive results independently. You easily adapt to a fast-paced environment and are driven by technical complexity. Your leadership and interpersonal skills enable you to engage people, build trust and get commitment from stakeholders to support your projects and drive change. Additionally, you are comfortable in a rapidly changing and dynamic work environment and can prioritize and not lose sight of the bigger picture. About the department
You will be part of a dynamic and ambitious PMO, where our Project Managers execute small to large projects across our production site. Our challenge is to execute an increasing portfolio of diverse projects and implementing new solutions with minimum impact on the ongoing production. We execute projects within aseptic production (formulation, filling, freeze-drying, product inspection) IT, and our building facilities.
The PMO team is a part of a department consisting of other teams all supporting the Aseptic Production which is a part of BRD Finished Products Gentofte and Vaarloese production site situated close to Copenhagen. Here we are app. 725 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. Webring value to patients by delivering high-quality 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 in 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. 2500 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 are also stiving 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 Serap Sahin, Associate Manager, at [email protected]. Deadline
17 March 2024.

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