Senior Process Scientist

Would you like to bring your expertise within cleaning to the next level? Do you want to be part of one of the biggest greenfield pharmaceutical investment projects in the Nordics and strengthen our position as an innovative and respected life-science pioneer? Are you interested in the opportunity to establish a factory that bridges new and automated technologies with strong know-how and expertise in biotech manufacturing? 
 
Then you might be our new Senior Process Scientist in Purification Plant five (PPV), that is about to start the manufacturing phase at our site in Kalundborg, Novo Nordisk hub for API manufacturing! Apply today for a life-changing career!

The Position

As a Senior Process Scientist within cleaning, you will support getting the new equipment up and running and qualifying and validating the cleaning processes. You will have a high degree of responsibility, drive own tasks and mentor junior colleagues.

This position offers an exciting chance to collaborate with different internal and external stakeholders from various levels.

Active participation in a skilled user organization is integral part of this role, fostering collaboration with engineering partners and contractors while overseeing their activities.

Join us and become a key player in ensuring smooth transition into production and implementing best practises for following up on cleaning process performance and implementing improvements.

The main tasks will be to:
•    Participate in project activities such as Site Acceptance Testing (SAT) and User Acceptance Test (UAT). Both mechanical and automation competencies are expected, preferably familiar with functional specification (FS).
•    Perform and contribute to strategies for testing and documentation (e.g. Riboflavin test, Cleaning Operational Verification (OV)).
•    Ensure validation of Cleaning-in-Place (CIP) of all process equipment (Cleaning Validation (CV)), including ownership of CIP specific processes.
•    Manage stakeholders.

Qualifications

The qualifications we value include having:
•    Minimum a bachelor’s degree in natural science.
•    At least 6 years of experience in Good Manufacturing Practice (GMP) and ideally Active Pharmaceutical Ingredient (API) manufacturing.
•    Knowledge and experience related to qualification and validation of CIP, and a solid understanding of unit operations, pharmaceutical cleaning processes and documentation.
•    A solid understanding of automation systems for production (PCS and MES), which is considered a plus.
•    Full professional proficiency in verbal and written English.

As a person, you enjoy close teamwork, are great in managing stakeholders, can ride out a storm, and are a motivator for others. Thriving in our multicultural environment requires independence and the ability to make critical decisions. 

A talent for building structure and a commitment to simplicity are essential for this team. Motivation to succeed and a passion for setting clear direction are key to succeed in this role.

About the Department

We are a newly established purification department in Novo Nordisk API. We are qualifying and validating a new purification facility, together with numerous stakeholders. 

Our approach is innovative, stakeholder focused, and inclusive in everything we do. You will be part of the PPV Cleaning team with dedicated experienced and junior colleagues, where we take pride in collaboration, so we get access to all the knowledge and know-how that everyone in the team possesses. The Cleaning team bridges the project organized in PS API Expansions with the newly established PPV manufacturing organization. 

The area is anchored in Novo Nordisk Product Supply, Quality & IT, which employs approximately 35,000 of Novo Nordisk’s 64,000 employees globally. 

About Novo Nordisk Kalundborg

Since 1969, Novo Nordisk Kalundborg has been a cornerstone in our production of API. With more than 50 years of expertise in large-scale biotech manufacturing, we are today the world’s largest insulin-producing facility. Our 4,400 employees at Novo Nordisk Kalundborg produce half of the world’s insulin, and a number of biopharmaceutical products. Together, we make a difference every day for more than 35 million people living with diabetes and other chronic diseases. 

Join our growing manufacturing hub in Kalundborg and gain thousands of dedicated colleagues. It is your drive and our passion, that makes a difference for their future. Are you ready for a life-changing career?

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, PPV Cleaning, Katrine Greve at +45 34488754 or via email at krgv@novonordisk.com.

Deadline 

4 May 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.