Manager for Calibration and Maintenance Team

Are you ready to be a part of Novo Nordisk’s most significant expansion project in Hillerød? We are currently seeking a Manager for Calibration and Maintenance to establish and lead a team in this exciting project. If you are ready to make a difference and contribute to our life-changing mission, read on and apply today!

The Position

As a Manager for Calibration and Maintenance at Novo Nordisk, you will have the opportunity to:

• Be a part of the management group in the line of business.

• Plan, design, and implement maintenance programs to optimize the availability and productivity of manufacturing facilities and equipment.

• Coordinate maintenance engineering work, including reviewing mechanical and electrical engineering specifications, and performing engineering reviews of proposed new equipment designs.

• Liaise with production staff to coordinate repair work, statutory safety inspections, and the supply of new equipment.

• Participate in the installation and commissioning of new equipment.

• Perform operational maintenance and repair of equipment in production areas.

• Establish a new team.

Qualifications

To be successful in this role, we are looking for candidates with the following qualifications:

• A degree within engineering or a related field.

• +2 years of experience working as a people manager.

• Proven experience in planning and implementing maintenance programs in a manufacturing environment.

• Strong knowledge of mechanical and electrical engineering.

• Excellent problem-solving and decision-making skills.

• Experience in the pharmaceutical industry is preferred.

• Full proficiency in written and spoken English and Danish.

On a personal level, you have excellent communication skills and can work collaboratively with cross-functional teams. You possess leadership and interpersonal skills, can engage people, build trust, and get commitment from your team and stakeholders to support your projects and drive change. You are comfortable in a rapid changing and dynamic work environment and can prioritize and not lose sight of the bigger picture.

About the Department

Our team is working to expand the Active Pharmaceutical Ingredient (API) capacity of our Biotech production in Hillerød. You will become a part of one of the most significant expansion projects in Novo Nordisk – and when finished the facility will employ app. 340 colleagues. The highly automated facility will be equipped with state-of-the-art technology that is flexible to accommodate new processes and products. It will expand our capacity for our portfolio of clinical late phase products to serve more people living with serious chronic diseases including rare diseases.

Biotech & Rare Disease (BRD) is part of Novo Nordisk Product Supply, which is a global production network at the forefront of technology and quality production of pharmaceutical products. In BRD, we are not only supplying all Novo Nordisk products to people living with serious chronic diseases, but we also use our competences in biotech to support the growing efforts into completely new production platforms and therapy areas for Novo Nordisk. We are more than 3400 dedicated colleagues working at six production sites in Denmark and the United States. Here we cover the entire production value chain where raw materials are cultivated, purified, formulated, filled, assembled in devices, packed, and distributed across the globe. As more and more people need our products, we support Novo Nordisk's initiatives in new therapy areas. Every day, we work to streamline and expand our capacity through process innovation, automation, and the introduction of new technology.

We do not only drive change for our patients – we also drive life-changing careers for our employees by promoting a learning culture with high levels of trust, innovation, and development throughout the organization. To drive the project and reach the initial phase of production, we need your help! Are you ready to join the project team and our journey?

Working at Novo Nordisk

Novo Nordisk is its people. We know that life is anything but linear, and balancing what is important at different stages of our career is never easy. That’s why we make room for diverse life situations, always putting people first. We value our employees for the unique skills they bring to the table, and we work continuously to bring out the best in them. Working at Novo Nordisk is working toward something bigger than ourselves, and it’s a collective effort. Novo Nordisk relies on the joint potential and collaboration of its more than 40,000 employees. Together, we go further. Together, we’re life changing.

Contact

For further information, please contact Director, Helle Grubbe +45 3448 1129.

Deadline

Apply before May, 5th 2024.

Applications will be screened on an ongoing basis, so you are encouraged to apply as soon as possible. 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.