Senior Engineer for Packaging Process Development

Novo Nordisk US

Novo Nordisk US

Capital Region of Denmark, Denmark
Posted on Dec 9, 2024

Are you an Engineer willing to bring your packaging expertise to develop and support our future packaging lines globally? Do you want to be part of an innovative team that set standard for fu-ture production? Would you like to join a truly international team, with great colleagues and enjoy supporting production sites all over the world?
Then apply today and join our Packaging Glass, Durable and Emerging Technologies Team within Finish Production Manufacturing Science and Technology (FPMSAT).

The position
As Senior Engineer for Packaging Process Development, you will be responsible for the packag-ing process, design, and standardization of packaging equipment for our product platforms with-in Glass, Durable (multiple use) and tablets.
You will have the opportunity to enter projects in the development and implementation phase for packaging lines across our many production sites, impacting both new and established products.


As a key member of projects, you will:

  • Contribute to or take lead of the design and standardization of equipment and related packaging processes
  • Collaborate with Device and Delivery Solutions (Device R&D) to ensure design for manu-facturability within our new product platforms
  • Be engaged in tests, installation, and validation of packaging equipment on packaging sites around the world
  • Collaborate with our Information Technology/Operational Technology (IT/OT) depart-ment, on our technology journey towards Industry 4.0

You can anticipate to a rich and diverse professional experience with strong collaboration with multiple stakeholders from corporate level to local sites, R&D, production, suppliers, Quality As-surance, and other specialists. All from different domains in pharma development and from dif-ferent regions and cultures.
Travelling activities to sites and suppliers are expected (approximately 6 weeks per year).

Qualifications
To be considered for this position, we imagine you:

  • Hold at least a bachelor’s degree in process engineering, mechanical engineering, phar-macy, science, or any other relevant field
  • Possess at least 5 years of experience working with packaging
  • Have a good understanding of technical aspects of the manufacturing processes
  • Are fluent in English (both written and spoken)
  • It would be considered as an advantage if you have a previous experience with packaging vials, manual prefilled syringes, bottling tablets or blisters.

Who are you as a person? Although we try not to place people in boxes, there are some traits that we believe will help you thrive in this role. You are ideally well organized, someone who never compromises on quality and have a pragmatic approach in your work. You take initiative, owner-ship and enjoy looking across multiple projects and share best practice in between these. You have strong communication and stakeholder management skills and thrives working in an inter-national and scape. It is essential that you are a true team-player at heart: you like to collaborate with colleagues and stakeholders to achieve common goals.

About the department
You will join Finish Production Manufacturing Science and Technology (FPMSAT) and the Packag-ing Manufacturing Development team responsible for packaging Novo Nordisk finished prod-ucts, primarily pen injectors, vials, syringes and tablets.
We are bridging product development to production, and we are driving development a stan ra-diation of new and smarter packaging processes. Further we are responsible for establishing packaging capacity worldwide for new and marketed products in compliance with our current regulatory requirements and in close interaction with Novo Nordisk global production sites. We have an end-to-end presence from device development to production implementation and sup-port to running production.

Our department located in Hillerød includes 170+ highly engaged skilled professionals from pro-ject managers, specialists, validation, process, and science experts. We are collaborating with multiple stakeholders and striving for excellence in project execution, science engineering, inno-vation, and technology.

Working at Novo Nordisk
We are a proud life-science company, and life is our reason to exist. We’re inspired by life in all its forms and shapes, ups and downs, opportunities, and challenges. For employees at Novo Nordisk, life means many things – from the building blocks of life that form the basis of ground-breaking scientific research, to our rich personal lives that motivate and energise us to perform our best at work. Ultimately, life is why we’re all here - to ensure that people can lead a life inde-pendent of chronic disease.

Contact
For further information, please contact Christoffer Skov, Hiring Manager at CISO@novonordisk.com


Deadline
2 January 2025.

You do not need to attach a cover letter to your application, but please include a few sentences about why you are applying in your resume or CV.
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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.