Engineer for Cleanroom and Sterilisation

Are you passionate about ensuring high-quality standards in a fast-paced, regulated production environment? Do you have experience with microbial control, sterilization, and GMP production and want to safeguard product quality and patient safety? Are you eager to take ownership of critical processes and collaborate with cross-functional teams to drive continuous improvement?

If you're ready to play a key role in maintaining the quality and safety of Novo Nordisk’s pen needle production, we want to hear from you!

Join our Needle Manufacturing site in Hjørring as our new Engineer for Cleanroom and Sterilisation. Apply today for a life-changing career!

The position

The Engineer for Cleanroom and Sterilisation role is a vital importance in our highly regulated industry. Your focus will be to ensure an overall excellent quality level and ensure that our processes meet the requirements expected from Novo Nordisk and the authorities.

Your main tasks will be to:

• Drive development, implementation, validation, and maintenance of our processes within microbial control and monitoring as well as sterilisation of Pen Needles.
• To ensure that our products and equipment are compliant with internal/external standards and requirements in close collaboration with our internal production stakeholders as well as our external suppliers.
• You will provide support to our production, and ensure that we do not compromise on quality, patient safety and compliance.

In the role as an Engineer for Cleanroom and Sterilisation, you will be responsible for microbial control of production facilities and sterilisation processes for all pen needles produced at Needle Manufacturing”, at Site Hjørring. (only 30 minutes from Aalborg)

You can look forward to a job where you can help set direction and call for you to be self-driven but also understand the importance of teamwork.

Qualifications

As a person, you must be able to create changes, set direction, and independently drive cross-functional work with a high level of quality and scientific insight. You are structured and thrive in a fast-paced work environment with many deadlines and changes in priority. Since the position requires interactions with many stakeholders, it is key that you know how to communicate in different layers of a large organisation.

To be successful in this role, we imagine that you have most of these qualifications:

• You have a background as a Pharmacist, engineer, or cand. scient.
• Experience with GMP production, including ISO13485 or similar QMS standards
• Experience within microbial control, controlled environments, and sterilisation.
• It is an advantage that you have experience with working at a production site.
• Fluency in English (written and spoken) is required.

Furthermore, you have a ‘can-do’ mindset, an analytical approach to your tasks, and is motivated by familiarising yourself with your topics and tasks in order to determine the best solution. You must thrive with handling complex tasks and navigating the landscape to find the most simple solution. We are looking for a colleague who can handle problem-solving in a systematic manner to eliminate problems completely. Thus, it is important that you are good at planning and working in a structured manner. You value a social atmosphere, a great sense of humour and is motivated by building good relations to your colleagues.

About the department

In the team, you will have 10 skilled and dedicated colleagues responsible for the factory's utility equipment as well as cleanroom and sterilization processes. This includes equipment that handles ventilation, compressed air, water treatment, steam, and autoclaving needs, throughout the full lifecycle of the equipment.

The team is part of Needle Manufacturing, which has the overall responsibility for the internal production and production assurance of Novo Nordisk's pen needles worldwide. We are organized in seven departments with approximately 425 employees, dedicated to ensuring the supply of pen needles to Novo Nordisk. We are driven by a quality mindset and take pride in being a workplace where our proactive spirit and high ambitions come together to create results for the benefit of our patients.

About CVP – Needle Manufacturing

Needle Manufacturing in Hjørring is responsible for the internal production of pen needles and quality control of all Novo Nordisk pen needles produced both internal and external. We are organised into seven departments with more than 440 employees dedicated to ensuring the supply of pen needles to Novo Nordisk. Our team is driven by a quality mindset, and we pride ourselves on being a workplace where our can-do spirit and high ambitions come together to create great results for the benefit of our patients.

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

For further information, please contact Manager, Nikolaj Juhl Rahmberg, at +45 3079 2895.

Deadline

16 March 2025.

We are interested in your motivation, but you do not need to upload a motivated cover letter when you apply. Instead, we ask you to include a few lines about your motivation in your CV. We ask you not to insert a photo in your CV, as it helps us to have a better and more fair process.

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.