Maintenance and Reliability Specialist

Are you passionate about optimizing equipment performance and enhancing maintenance plans and strategies? Do you thrive on developing maintenance strategies that drive reliability? Are you ready to take on a global role where your expertise can make a real impact?  If so, this could be the perfect opportunity for you! Join Novo Nordisk as a Maintenance and Reliability Specialist and play a key role in enhancing maintenance strategies across our global sites. Apply today and be part of a life-changing journey!
 

The position
The focus of this role is act as the maintenance and reliability technical owner of packaging lines globally, managing the fleet. It is crucial to ensure alignment on standardization levels across the lines.
The position gives a chance to provide incredible stakeholder management within the sites globally, reviewing failure modes and keeping documents updated! 
As a Maintenance and Reliability Specialist, you will:
•    Work on change request cases and be directly involved in approving them with a maintenance and reliability technical background.
•    Conduct RCM (Reliability Centered Maintenance) studies to drive reliability and creation of maintenance plans.
•    Drive implementation projects of CBM (Condition based Maintenance) and PdM (Predictive maintenance) 
•    Own the maintenance and reliability strategy for packaging lines, update equipment Taxonomy, RBM (Criticality and Maintenance Assessments, FMEAs/RCM, etc.), SOPs (MWD/FITs), and assist in Root Cause Analysis (RCA) from the global to the site level.
•    Evaluate changes and ensure documentation and standards are updated and maintained.
•    Facilitate workshops globally to ensure competency and knowledge in Maintenance and Reliability, and to collaborate with production sites, quality, and process teams to enhance maintenance recommendations.
•    Drive maintenance improvement and obsolescence projects with aim to improve equipment maintenance and reliability, also to assess new equipment designs for reliability and ease of maintenance.
 

Qualifications
As a person, you show a great degree of responsibility and independence whilst you possess excellent communication and collaboration skills, acting between and serving many stakeholders, which requires a flexible attitude.
To be successful in this role, you should have:
•    A bachelor’s Degree in engineering or a related field
•    A minimum of 5 years of technical Expertise with strong understanding of Reliability Centered Maintenance (RCM) and maintenance engineering principles
•    Proven experience in reliability engineering and maintenance optimization from pharma, GMP regulated or FMCG industries
•    Experience with preventive and predictive maintenance programs to enhance equipment performance.
•    Teamwork and communication skills to work effectively across departments.
 

About the department
FPM Engineering is part of Finished Product Manufacturing (FPM), with a dedicated team of around 50 colleagues. We work collaboratively to support and optimise processes across all global sites. Our primary responsibility is to drive performance in FPM on all assembly and packaging lines, ensuring best practices. Located at our headquarters, we are committed to bringing value to our patients by supporting all sites with process standardisation, ramp-up excellence, and technological leadership.
 

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
For further information, please contact Director Johan Paulsson on jzjp@novonordisk.com
 

Deadline
20 April 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. To ensure an efficient and fair recruitment process, please refrain from adding a photo in your CV.
 

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.