Cleaning Specialist - Peptides and Oligos

Do you want to drive new initiatives to improve how we work with cleaning and establish new cleaning standards, simplifying our processes and ensuring the right quality? Are you creative and able to think outside the box? We are looking for a scientist with cleaning experience who can help us develop and establish cleaning procedures at our contract development and manufacturing organizations (CDMO-s) at manufacturing scale. If this sounds like you, we invite you to explore this exciting opportunity at Novo Nordisk. Read more and apply for a life-changing career with us today!

The position

Your two primary areas of responsibility will be supporting projects on cleaning strategy and supporting the daily API production in matters regarding cleaning. You will:

• Design cleaning strategies, implement new cleaning technologies and approaches, author reports, support production in problem-solving, and support audits and regulatory inspections.
• Work with colleagues across the organization to ensure the implementation of new cleaning processes and collaborate with both our internal and external manufacturing teams.
• Provide ongoing onsite support of facilities for our API manufacturing.
• Develop, execute, and implement operational optimization projects to increase manufacturing efficiencies for personnel and equipment, and ensure quality and compliance.
• Author investigation summaries and create GMP documents, including SOPs and production documents.

Your role will be instrumental in assuring operational practice reflects product specific cleaning strategy and approach. You will need to understand technology operation capabilities, limits, and control strategies in the manufacturing plants. You will experience an enthusiastic working climate focused on quality, teamwork, and delivery.

Qualifications

We expect that you:

• Have a solid theoretical background and an academic degree (Cand. Pharm, Chemical Engineer, Chemistry, or similar discipline).
• Possess specialized knowledge within the field of cleaning and/or cleaning validation from pharmaceutical production.
• Have experience in managing projects in a GMP regulated environment.
• Are fluent in both written and spoken Danish and English.
• Knowledge of LEAN principles and experience with cleaning for peptides and/or oligonucleotides at manufacturing scale is a strong advantage.

On a personal level your positive attitude, commitment and working in a systematic manner will be important to succeed in this role. You will engage in troubleshooting to support the manufacturing activities and perform a variety of activities to ensure our license to operate. So you need to be able to find challenges exciting, while maintaining your overview and acting in compliance with regulations despite being busy and involved in various tasks simultaneously. It is important that you are a good communicator, since you are in daily contact with internal and external stakeholders across the world.

About the department

As part of Novo Nordisk’s Product Supply organization, you will be assigned to Emerging Technologies API Manufacturing Development (ET API MDev). We work at the interface between CMC and full-scale manufacturing with a focus on process understanding, implementation, optimization, and life cycle management.  

We offer a very interesting and varying job with the opportunity to work with other highly qualified and motivated colleagues in a multidisciplinary project environment. 

The department is newly established, presenting a unique opportunity to join at the beginning of an exciting journey, while benefiting from the established way of working in Novo Nordisk.

Contact

For further information, contact Sr.Manager Camilla Christensen, cmsc@novonordisk.com.

Deadline

08 April 2025

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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.