Associate Project Academic

Do you want to be part of the biggest greenfield pharmaceutical investment project in the Nordics and strengthen our position as an innovative and respected life-science pioneer? Are you ready to take on a unique role and become part of our exciting journey to develop and build a new and innovative diabetes factory? Are you curious about the opportunity to establish a factory that bridges new and automated technologies with strong know-how and expertise of life-science manufacturing? Make the most of your talent and join our team!

As our team is expanding, multiple Associate Project positions are opening. Are you newly graduated with a can-do attitude and great problem-solving skills? Now is your opportunity to join a newly established team, where you will be able to improve and exercise your coordination and analytical skills. This job will require a lot of agility and ability to adapt to new and everchanging situations. This is your chance to work with exciting tasks, supporting the set-up of innovative systems and processes involved in purification of APIs.

The job

As an Associate project academic, you will be joining a project that is ramping up, so there will be a lot of opportunities to influence your own tasks by weighing-in and taking responsibility of your work.

You will be supporting the project around new equipment, systems and processes, ensuring that everything is validated and efficient – all in collaboration with project teams.

You will also assist in identifying optimisation potentials and implementing them in an advanced and automated manufacturing setup. This position is a great opportunity to become deeply knowledgeable about API purification processes and automation systems throughout a complex value chain. It is key that you have a mindset, where you can see through challenges, propose solutions, and figure out a way to resolve them.

In the short term, the job will be split between working in Kalundborg and Virum. In the long term, your workplace will primarily be in Kalundborg.

Qualifications

• You hold a master's or bachelor's degree in Engineering, Chemistry, pharmacy or similar
• You could have up to 2 years of relevant experience after graduating. But as we are hiring for multiple positions, we can adjust your role according to your experience
• When delivering your work and results, you are comfortable using tools and systems like MS Projects, Excel and PowerPoint with ease and impact
• You have strong communication skills both in spoken and written English

You take natural ownership and complete your work within the given timeframe, and you are always structured and systematic in your work. Your natural curiosity will be crucial to your success, as well as your skills in coordinating and collaborating efficiently throughout the organisation.

You welcome the meaningful changes and do not back away from challenging how we do things – so that we can improve together.

About the department

We are expanding to provide capacity for the production of Novo Nordisk’s current and future oral and injectable products by establishing new and ground-breaking biotech facilities in Novo Nordisk Kalundborg. We embrace new technologies and we’re building a future factory with a strong focus on digitalisation, automation and robotics.  The team you will be joining, will continue to expand over the coming years. In this new team, you will be collaborating closely with colleagues with backgrounds within chemistry, engineering, project management, automation and facility planning.

We know that a diverse group of people, performs the best results, and we are eager to build teams where collaboration across professional backgrounds ensures a right first-time execution of highly complex projects. You will play a vital role in building and maintaining a healthy and inspiring work culture and have an abundance of opportunities for professional and personal development.

Contact

If you have questions about the position, please contact Louise Baltser Rasmussen on +45 30754233.

Deadline

Please apply no later than December 4th, 2022. We will process applications as we receive them, so apply now rather than later. 

You do not need to attach a cover letter to your application, but please include a few sentences about your motivation to apply in your CV. To ensure an efficient and fair recruitment process, please refrain from adding a photo in your CV. 

Join Novo Nordisk Manufacturing in Kalundborg in times of expansion.

Join us from the very beginning of our future journey and make your mark on a newly established organisation that will be growing in the coming years. Do you want to work with dedicated and experienced biotech manufacturing professionals? Are you curious about the opportunity to establish a factory that bridges new and automated technologies with strong know-how and expertise in biotech manufacturing? Make the most of your talent and join our team, who are working out of both Copenhagen and Kalundborg.

Today, 3,200 employees of Novo Nordisk Kalundborg produce half of the world’s insulin and a number of biopharmaceutical products. With more than 50 years of expertise in large-scale biotech manufacturing, we are today the world’s largest insulin-producing facility. By joining Novo Nordisk Manufacturing in Kalundborg, we promise you a developing career, where you will be met with trust and responsibility by dedicated colleagues with diverse backgrounds in a successful company with a higher purpose and an inclusive environment. Together, we make a difference every day for more than 30 million people living with diabetes and other chronic diseases.

Interested in a life-changing career?

Read more about the opportunities at Novo Nordisk Kalundborg at https://novonordisk.com/kalundborg-careers

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.

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