Shutdown Manager

Are you self-driven, structured, and motivated to work for a global pharmaceutical company with many opportunities for development? Do you want to be involved in cross-coordination of the entire plan during our shutdowns?
If so, we have the right opportunity for you! Our Aseptic Manufacturing and Finished Product factory is seeking a Shutdown Manager to manage operational shutdown activities at our manufacturing site in Hillerød, Denmark. Don’t hesitate to apply today!

The Position

You’ll be our specialized Shutdown Manager, whose main tasks include planning, coordination, and execution of the shutdowns at our production site with great scope of responsibility.
Our production site has a Finished Product (FP) area with 11 production lines and a fully automated material handling system, with a joint two-week-long summer shutdown, while our Aseptic Production (AP) area has a three-week summer shutdown. There are also smaller, 24-hour shutdowns scattered throughout the year, during which your aim would be to ensure the activities are aligned and do not conflict with one another.
The stakeholder landscape is large and diverse, involving activity owners, project managers, site management, system, process owners, logistic, specialists as well as vendors - all with individual needs and inputs for shutdown – and it will be your task to unite them in time and space.

Your responsibilities would include:

• Aligning the scope and conditions with all activities following our shutdown process with focus on prioritization and dependencies
• Planning and aligning with focus on involvement and stakeholder satisfaction
• Developing and maintaining a strategic overview of all shutdowns, which will involve interacting, planning, and reporting to the site senior management
• Working strategically between shutdowns with the shutdown programme. This will involve you acting as a trusted partner for the site management
• Being process responsible for the shutdown standard, continuous work, and optimization of how the shutdown planning and execution are run
• Safety walks, risk assessments and safety management during shutdowns

We are a positive and ambitious site where we all do our utmost to support the production of products for our patients. No two shutdowns that are the same, new challenges will appear during every shutdown, and you are expected to produce constructive solutions to unprecedented situations to save valuable production time.

Qualifications

We are searching for a proactive and driven self-starter who can build strong professional relationships and who thrives when driving tasks independently to the finish line. Our ideal candidate is not afraid of new challenges and is able to set the scene and control progress. We expect our candidate to be present during summer shutdowns as well as the shorter shutdowns during the year.
Also, you:

• Have a structured approach to your work and ability to prioritize while juggling a variety of tasks
• Hold a master’s in engineering or other relevant technical degree
• Have at least 5 years of working experience, including considerable experience within Project Management and other related roles that involved coordinating tasks and processing across multiple functions
• Are a great communicator who has experience working cross-functionally and building relations with stakeholders at all organizational levels
• Are fluent in both English and Danish

Experience from a GMP-regulated environment will be considered an advantage but not a requirement. The role has similarities to a program manager, so that background will also fit.

About the Department

You will be a part of a team consisting of 11 members in the Project Management Office (PMO). You will work closely together with our Project Portfolio Managers and our more than 50 project managers in the PMO and take on a project approach to shutdown management. You will lead the project supported by technically savvy and dedicated project team members and become part of a project manager community with equally dedicated and supportive colleagues.

Working at Novo Nordisk

At Novo Nordisk, we don’t wait for change. We drive it. We’re a dynamic company in an even more dynamic industry, and we know that what got us to where we are today is not necessarily what will make us successful in the future. We embrace the spirit of experimentation, striving for excellence without fixating on perfection. We never shy away from opportunities to develop, we seize them. From research and development, through to manufacturing, marketing, and sales – we’re all working to move the needle on patient care.

Contact

If you have any questions, please reach out to Shutdown Manager Morten Paaske at 34 48 56 98.

Deadline

16 March 2025

We encourage you to apply early as we review resumes on an ongoing basis.

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 to 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 the communities we operate in. Together, we’re life changing.

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.