Equipment Cleaning-In-Place specialist for pharmaceutical production

• Manufacturing
• Kalundborg

Are you ready to share the overall responsibility for Cleaning-In-Place processes and equipment, and can you see yourself being part of the Novo Nordisk success story? If you possess the needed skills and expertise, and also want to work with pharmaceutical products of the highest possible quality, then maybe we have a job for you. We need an energetic, dedicated and quality-minded academic for a Supporter position within purification of insulin and GLP-1 products.

About the department

You will be joining your new colleagues in the support team, and share the responsibility for the processes involved in the first steps of the purification processes of Insulin and GLP-1 products. This means we make many different Active Pharmaceutical Ingredients (API) ready for the finer purification processes in our sister facility, ensuring that quality and safety standards are always met or exceeded. Crucial to this ambition is the scrutinous cleaning of all our equipment between different batches, and for this, we emply a host of Cleaning-In-Place systems that you will be managing together with your colleagues. The team has a strong sense of inclusive coherance, with a great sense of humour, an informal and respectful tone and tall ambitions. We are great at being there for each other, whenever challenges exceed the capabilities of individual effort, and we do expect you to subscribe to this collaborative mindset as well.

The position

We do many things at once, all in a very large scale – a truly multifunctional facility of sizable impact to the overall Novo Nordisk manufacturing of quality products. This is very demanding of our cleaning processes, as you can imagine that the need to ensure flexibility also carries an increase in the cleaning needs. The reason we can guarantee that our faciity is always ready to produce clean, safe and efficient API in a flexible setup like ours, is because of our dedicated colleagues’ ability to always be a step ahead when it comes to scaling, optimising and quality assuring our processes. In part, this is done through meticulous validation and analysis, which is one of the areas where your skills and experience will be employed and developed.

Together with colleagues from many different backgrounds and positions in the value chain, you will be optimising what we do, making us ready for an exciting future. You will validate your initiatives scientifically and build business cases around them, showing us a clear path towards increased flexibility, safety and quality in an ever-changing environment of interesting science and ambitous manufacturing goals.

In this position, you will be met with a range of opportunities to develop your skills and expertise within a host of interesting technologies, processes and issues. As cleaning supporter, you will carry the professional responsibility for handling any challenges in the production lines. Stabiliy, GMP adherance, optimisations and validation are good key words to indicate the range and content of your tasks. Expect great and interesting variation, impactful decision making, professional opportunities and colleagial trust across cultural distances, and you will not be disappointed with neither the content of your work day, the meaningfulness in your results nor the long term benefits you can build here.

Qualifications

You hold a scietific degree at Master level within a relevant field like engineering, pharmacology or the natural sciences. After graduation, you have built a minimum of two years of experience working with eqiupment cleaning processes within pharmaceutical manufacturing – preferably combined with a solid interest in process equipment that has led to the impressive results you will be showing us. Obviously, you already know your way around in a GMP-regulated environment, and you appreciate the value in well-kept documentation.

Your approach to your work is structured, and you thrive in hands-on problem solving situations, where your interpersonal skills and your technical flair enables strong solutions with empowering local ownership. You adapt to new circumstances quickly, and enjoy expanding your knowledge and expertise through thorough preparation and curiosity-driven floor work. You solve you challenges with a transparent, systematic approach, and we look forward to be inspired by your way of using visualisations, systematic process reviewing, value mapping or whatever the tools you have employed to achieve your results – whether they are founded in LEAN principles, other approaches or they are just your personal way of organising, communicating and coordinating your work.

Almost needless to say, you are strong in taking on responsibility, you never compromise on safety or quality, and you enjoy an ambitious pace in an inspiring work environment. Full proficientcy in both English as well as Danish is required for this position.

Become a part of Novo Nordisk in Kalundborg

Join Novo Nordisk Manufacturing in Kalundborg and get a developing career among talented people in a successful company. Together, we make a real difference every day for more than 30 million people living with diabetes and other chronic diseases.

We have 50 years of expertise in biotechnological production at Novo Nordisk in Kalundborg. Generations of employees have developed their professional qualifications, personal skills and careers at Novo Nordisk and have helped develop the production facility to become the largest insulin-producing facility in the world.

Today, our 3,000 employees produce half of the world’s insulin and a number of biopharmaceutical products. Furthermore, our finished product sections assemble and pack diabetes and biopharmaceutical products.

You will soon sense why Novo Nordisk Kalundborg is a highly unique place and why we are passionate about working here. You will be met with trust and responsibility by welcoming and dedicated colleagues. Novo Nordisk Kalundborg is a workplace where involvement, development and multidisciplinarity are in focus.

Contact

Should you wish to know more about the position, please fell free to call Lars Høg Mittag at +45 30 75 55 07.

Deadline

2 July 2020