Collaborative Manufacturing Professional (Temporary position)

You sit at your desk working on a challenge in production. Yields are low. You systematically run simple statistical calculations and plot data in search of patterns to confirm your hypothesis, when you receive a meeting invite for the next day. It is a project concerning use of a new AI-based technology, and your input is needed. As you reply, the phone rings. It is an operator from production. There has been an incident. You hang up and go to production. On the way, another operator stops you in the hallway with a concern about the freeze dryer that is running tonight. You listen patiently, acknowledge the input, and ask humble and curious questions to make sure you understand the concern. You promise to follow up. As you continue into the production, you make a note to yourself to talk to a colleague later about the freeze dryer.
The incident in the production concerns a registration in the process control system. You sit down with the operator and patiently guide him through. Later the same day, you will have to open an incident report. While sitting there, you overhear someone discussing bad performance on one of the column purification steps. You wonder if this is the cause for the poor yields.
When you return to the office, you focus your data analysis on the specific column purification step and identify a clear trend between this column and the low yield. You go to your colleague from Equipment Support, and Together, you decide to initiate a maintenance check of the column. On the way back, you check in with another colleague, who works on improving the freeze dryer. A design is taking shape to make it easier for the operators to run in the evening. You make sure that the operators are informed about the good news. Before you leave the office that day, you initiate the incident report. You know that for the coming days, you will have to work on this incident to systematically identify a root cause and actions to preventing it from reoccurring. 
Do you see yourself in such a position? Then you may be our new temporary (1.5 years) API Manufacturing Professional for our production of human Growth Hormone (hGH), Active Pharmaceutical Ingredient (API), in Gentofte!

The Position
In this temporary position as manufacturing professional, you will be part of a team of academics and technicians who support the daily production. The production process consists of chromatographic purification, centrifugation, column packing, freeze-drying, automated cleaning among others. 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. 
More specifically, you:

•    Handle and document errors, and you communicate knowledge and learnings to colleagues in the team as well as in the production. 

•    Approach challenges in production by taking initiative and involve relevant colleagues to ensure that 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

•    Experience with pharmaceutical production in a GMP-regulated environment will be an advantage. 

•    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 engaged and helpful. You keep calm 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
Our department is a GMP-production, which covers the entire value-chain from fermentation of product in a host cell, followed by product recovery, chromatographic purification, and finally freeze-dried product. The department is on a journey towards increased production capacity driven by an increasing demand from the market. Our aim is to achieve this through use of innovative solutions, optimizations, and new production technologies, while maintaining a healthy and committed work environment with psychological safety for all employees.

Working at Novo Nordisk 
Novo Nordisk is a leading global healthcare company with a 100-year legacy of driving change to defeat serious chronic diseases. Building on our strong legacy within diabetes, we are growing massively and expanding our commitment, reaching millions around the world and impacting more than 40 million patient lives daily. All of this has made us one of the 20 most valuable companies in the world by market cap. Our success relies on the joint potential and collaboration of our more than 72,000 employees around the world. We recognize the importance of the unique skills and perspectives our people bring to the table, and we work continuously to bring out the best in them. Working at Novo Nordisk, we’re working toward something bigger than ourselves, and it’s a collective effort. Join us! Together, we go further. Together, we’re life changing. 

Contact 
If you want to know more about the position, please contact Associate Manager, Steven B. Rødkær on +45 3079 7169 .

Deadline 
20 May, 2025.

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.