Advanced Packaging Engineer

Are you 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 future production? Would you like to join a truly international team, with great colleagues and having fun while supporting production sites all over the world?

Then you might be our new Advanced Packaging Engineer to join our Packaging Glass, Durable and Emerging Technologies Team within Finish Production Manufacturing Science and Technology (FPMSAT). Apply today for a life-changing career!
 

The Position

As an Advanced Packaging Engineer, you will be part of the team responsible for the packaging process, design, and standardization of packaging equipment for our product platforms within Glass, Durable (multiple use) and tablets.

This is a great opportunity to enter projects in the development and implementation phase for packaging lines across our many production sites, impacting both new and established products.

Our team offers gaining rich and diverse professional experience with strong collaboration with multiple stakeholders from corporate level to local sites, R&D, production, suppliers, Quality Assurance, and other specialists. Our colleagues are all from different domains in pharma development and from different regions and cultures.

Travelling activities to sites and suppliers are expected for at least 6 weeks per year.

The main tasks will be to:
•    Contribute to the design and standardization of equipment and related packaging processes.
•    Collaborate with Device and Delivery Solutions (Device R&D) to ensure design for manufacturability 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) department, on our technology journey towards Industry 4.0.

Qualifications

To succeed in this role, you:
•    Hold at least a bachelor’s degree in process engineering, mechanical engineering, food engineering, pharmacy, science, or other relevant field.
•    Possess at least 2 years of experience working with packaging.
•    Have a good understanding of technical aspects of the manufacturing processes.
•    Have a previous experience with packaging vials, manual prefilled syringes, bottling tablets or blisters, which is considered a plus.
•    Are fluent in written and spoken English. 

As a person, you are ideally well organized, never compromises on quality and have a pragmatic approach to work. Taking initiative and ownership comes naturally to you, along with a keen ability to oversee multiple projects and share best practices across them. 

Strong communication and stakeholder management skills are essential in the role, enabling to thrive in an international and dynamic environment. Being a true team player is crucial, with a collaborative approach to working with colleagues and stakeholders to achieve common goals.

About the Department

You will join Finish Production Manufacturing Science and Technology (FPMSAT) and the Packaging Manufacturing Development team responsible for packaging Novo Nordisk finished products, primarily pen injectors, vials, syringes and tablets.

We are bridging product development to production, and we are driving development and standardization 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 support to running production.

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

About Site Hillerød

Site Hillerød is an innovative and fast-growing production site. With over 4,000 talented employees, we work together to drive change for people living with serious chronic diseases. The site is located in beautiful natural surroundings, and we offer a diverse array of career paths at all educational levels. Join our vibrant community at Site Hillerød and ramp up your career while we ramp up our production! Get to know us better - visit our career page  Novo Nordisk Hillerød

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 Manager Christoffer Skov at CISO@novonordisk.com.

Deadline 

9 March 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.