Process Transfer Engineer

Do you dream about having a true impact? Would you like to be responsible for the technical transfer of new processes to our existing facility? Are you ready to start working with a highly efficient team?

If so, you might be our Process Transfer Engineer. Apply today for a life-changing career!

The Position

As a Process Transfer Engineer, you will be a part of the New Products team responsible for New Product Entry which currently consists of 8 highly dedicated and skilled colleagues. The key responsibility is to ensure the technology and process transfer of new Active Pharmaceutical Ingredients (API) processes in the existing production facility together with your colleagues from production. Furthermore, you will play a crucial role in the controlling documents, filing documents and inspections. The goal is to get the process fully implemented and run successfully under Good Manufacturing Practice (GMP) throughout several batches.

The processes include mammalian cultivation, recovery and purification. The tasks include understanding the new processes, knowledge transfer from our colleagues in development and implementation of the processes in our current facility. We identify and drive the necessary changes of the process via close collaboration with other key functions (e.g. equipment responsible, production process support, automation etc.). Other tasks are to write procedures, process documents, protocols, validation documentation and change requests. Up to the first campaigns you will also be responsible for ensuring correct training and knowledge transfer to operators and process supporters in current production and will play a crucial role in supporting the running production. After process validation you will be part of the teaming preparing for filing (document writing as well as Pre License Inspection).

Your main focus will be on:

• Coordination of activities with internal and external stakeholders (process development, equipment, facility, production, automation and Quality Assurance (QA)).

• Being responsible for preparing and supporting campaigns for new products, including required documentation in accordance with the current standards and legislations, change requests and process deviations.

• Ensuring technology, process and knowledge transfer between development and production.

• Troubleshooting related to the daily manufacturing of new products.

• Initiating problem solving (A3 or similar) for observed process deviations or other issues in the production of the new products.

Qualifications

To succeed in this role, you have:

• A minimum of a bachelor’s degree in bioengineering, biotechnology, biochemistry or similar field.
• At least 4-6 years of experience with production and/or development of pharmaceutical products.
• Experience in mammalian cell cultivation or fermentation with changing products under GMP requirements.
• Full professional proficiency in written and spoken Danish and English.

As a person, you have strong analytical skills and preferably with solid knowledge of cell cultivation processes. Being structured and proactive in the workplace, good at working independently, making data-based decisions which both are within our GMP frame as well as supporting our strategic goals is essential in this role. While LEAN is a natural part of skill set, you also have amazing stakeholder management skills and spoken communication skills.

To succeed in this role, it is key to be able to keep a cool head and make decisions in a busy work environment where the agenda changes frequently. We will welcome a colleague who has a keen eye for detail, a nag for analysing process data from development and production, a good understanding of production processes combined with a strong GMP mindset.

About the Department

You will be part of a dynamic business area which produces Active Pharmaceutical Ingredients (API) for patients across the world.

There are two open position is in our API production in Hillerød, working with respectively the upstream and downstream process in a mammalian cell culture process. The team is responsible for transferring new products from development to the production facilities in Hillerød, as well as supporting process validation and campaigns of our new products. The team is part of a larger production area with other departments such as production, equipment, maintenance, calibration and IT/Automation.

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 Site Hillerød 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 Senior Manager Christiane Wiendahl at +45 30794862.

Deadline

29 June 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.