Senior Health and Safety Partner
Novo Nordisk US
Are you committed to improving process and functional safety to comply with requirements from Danish Risk Authorities and the Seveso Directive? Are you motivated to partner and collaborate with stakeholders across our entire value chain and implement practical solutions?
Here's a unique opportunity to make a real impact on our ability to ensure that systems, machinery, and equipment operate in a safe and reliable manner, especially when they perform critical functions. This role empowers individuals to identify potential hazards, assess risks, and implement protective measures to mitigate the likelihood of system failures that could result in harm, injury, or damage.
Apply now for the role of Senior Process Safety Partner in our Health & Safety team within the Sustainability Partnering department at Køge.
Position
In this job you will be responsible for:
- Leading the development and implementation of functional safety strategies and standards within our organization
- Support the various processes related to resilience and security, crisis response, emergency preparedness and readiness
- Conducting comprehensive hazard and risk assessments to identify potential safety-critical scenarios
- Collaborating with cross-functional teams to ensure compliance with relevant functional safety standards and regulations
- Overseeing the design and validation of safety-critical systems and components
- Providing expert guidance and support to ensure the integration of functional safety principles into the development lifecycle
- Serving as the point of contact for functional safety matters, both internally and externally, including interaction with regulatory bodies and industry partners.
Qualifications
To succeed in this role, we imagine that you have:
- Bachelor’s degree is required with 5+ years’ experience with relevant work ideally from a pharmaceutical/biopharmaceutical production
- A strong focus on risk management, process/functional safety, crisis response, emergency response management, and fire related building requirements
- Excellent verbal and written communication skills within both Danish and English
- Ability to negotiate the right solutions with our business needs, and an interest in both strategic and hands-on tasks.
As a person, you will thrive in this role if you appreciate a diverse workday with hands-on tasks, facilitations and presentations, data crunching, reporting and project group participation with key deliveries. You have high personal drive and a positive attitude enabling you to pursue key focus areas and achieve results. You are good at communication and training, and you can communicate complex subjects in a simple way. You have a qualitative and analytical mindset with a proactive, structured, and systematic approach to tasks. Your colleagues will see you as highly motivated, flexible, and friendly, but also persistent and able to get things done.
About the department
You will be a part of the Sustainability Partnering department at NNPR with two teams: Environment team, Health & Safety team, and profession managers within project portfolio and sustainability. The Health & Safety team consists of 11 employees including you. We work diligently to support NNPR embracing diversity and inclusion, whilst focusing on having a fun and encouraging a curious working environment.
Novo Nordisk Pharmatech A/S is a 100% owned subsidiary of Novo Nordisk located in Køge. We are more than 480 people covering the entire value chain from R&D and Business Development to Manufacturing, Marketing and Sales. NNPR is a global and leading manufacturer of pharmaceutical ingredients for the pharmaceutical and biopharmaceutical industries. Our purpose is to enable better medicines, enabling better lives by providing sustainable pharmaceutical materials through innovative and customized solutions. Our product range consists of quaternary ammonium compounds (QUATs), Recombinant Insulin, Customized Purification Resins, and Specialty Enzymes.
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 63,000 employees around the world. We recognise 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 would like to know more about the position, please contact Associate Manager of the Health & Safety Team, Graham Stenning on mobile number +45 31 97 01 03
Deadline
31st December 2024
You do not need to attach a cover letter to your application, but please include a few lines about your motivation 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.