Are you an experienced Validation Engineer ready to take the next step in your career? Do you thrive on enhancing manufacturing processes, driving efficiency, and making a real impact on global projects? If so, we want you to bring your expertise to optimize Aseptic Manufacturing equipment and help scale production capacity—while maintaining the highest standards of product quality.

If you have a proven track record of validating custom-built production equipment in a GMP environment and are eager to contribute to dynamic, global initiatives, we’d love to hear from you.

Read on and apply today!

The Position

As a Senior Validation Engineer, you’ll play a pivotal role in driving global validation efforts for critical improvement and innovation projects across both new and existing production facilities. Your expertise will be crucial in ensuring successful project outcomes, from concept through to implementation, in close collaboration with cross-functional teams and global manufacturing sites.

The main tasks will be to:

• validate new solutions,
• establish key documentation,
• overseeing testing processes to ensure our production systems remain of the highest quality and efficiency.

Qualifications

To succeed int this role, you have:

• An academic degree in engineering, biology, chemistry, pharmacy, or a related scientific field.
• At least 5 years of experience as a Process or Validation Professional/Engineer within a cGMP environment, with a preference for experience in aseptic manufacturing.
• Strong understanding of the science and technical aspects of aseptic manufacturing processes.
• An innovative mindset and a focus on Lean principles.
• Professional proficiency in English.

On a personal level, you are an open-minded professional who excels at seeking opportunities through collaboration. As this role involves working closely with external partners, the ability to build strong, productive relationships will be essential.

Your excellent communication and interpersonal skills will help you navigate these partnerships and drive smooth collaboration across teams. These qualities are key to your success as you help lead innovation and excellence on a global scale.

About the Department

At Novo Nordisk, we are driving innovation and developing cutting-edge technologies to shape the future of Aseptic Manufacturing. Our mission is to scale production capabilities to serve more patients through a compliant, efficient, and technology-driven network.

We are responsible for the development of equipment and systems, from ideation to the first successful pilot implementation. Our expertise spans aseptic manufacturing processes, mechanical design, automation, robotics, modeling, simulation, and equipment validation. We manage both a Development Test Center in Kalundborg and an Innovation Lab in Bagsværd.

Our dynamic team consists of approximately 50 employees, along with students and consultants. We are a diverse, engaged, and international group working primarily from our offices in Bagsværd, Gentofte, and Kalundborg.

If you are passionate about shaping the future of aseptic manufacturing and thrive in an innovative, collaborative environment, we’d love to hear from you!

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 independent of chronic disease.

Contact

For further information, please contact Mie Bach-Pedersen Manager at MPDB@novonordisk.com

Deadline
23 March 2025

Applications are reviewed at an ongoing basis, so to maximise your chances, kindly submit your application as soon as possible.

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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.