Cleaning Validation Professional

Are you passionate about engineering and ensuring top-notch quality in manufacturing processes? Do you have experience with pharmaceutical or food plant equipment? If so, we invite you to join our team as a Washing Equipment Engineer at Novo Nordisk’s Koriyama factory. Read more and apply today for a life-changing career.
Novo Nordisk has been globally recognized as the Best Place to Work, topping the ranks for two consecutive years in 2022 and 2023. It is an exciting time to join Novo Nordisk and be part of a dynamic company in an even more dynamic industry, helping us achieve our aspirations to establish a global presence in the industry.

About the department
Novo Nordisk is a global healthcare company with 100 years of innovation in diabetes care. This heritage has given us experience and capabilities that also enable us to help people defeat obesity, haemophilia, growth disorders and other serious chronic diseases. Headquartered in Denmark, Novo Nordisk employs over 63,000 people in 80 countries, and markets its products in more than 170 countries.
You will be part of the Project Office, KFA (Koriyama Factory), reporting to the Process Team Manager. Our team is responsible for the design, requirement consideration, and installation of washing equipment for tablet contact parts at KFA. We are also involved in validation processes, including cleaning validation, and promote packaging line installations to fit future opportunities and products. We strive for high compliance with all internal and external regulations and continuously seek to introduce new technology.

The position
As a Washing Equipment Engineer, your responsibilities will involve overseeing the conceptualization, installation, and maintenance of washing equipment at KFA, ensuring compliance with regulations and readiness for new product launches. Your main tasks will include:

• Collaborate with internal and external stakeholders to establish the concept and requirements for washing equipment.
• Review design specifications and estimates from suppliers and oversee the installation of washing equipment at the Koriyama factory.
• Develop maintenance plans and transfer knowledge to the Engineering & Maintenance team, while managing stakeholders, especially equipment suppliers and agent companies.
• Ensure compliance with applicable regulations and act as a Subject Matter Expert (SME) during audits or inspections, while also maintaining the validation and readiness for new product launches.
• Identify and eliminate hazards during installation, ensuring safety and reporting any concerning situations on the shop floor.
   

Qualifications

• Bachelor’s degree in a relevant field.
• Work experience as an equipment engineer in manufacturing company.
• Experience in cleaning validation and machine installation.
• Business-level English proficiency, both verbal and written (TOEIC ≥ 600).
• Strong communication and social skills, and being analytical, logical, and accountable

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 energize 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
Upload your CV to our online career page (click on Apply and follow the instructions).
 

Deadline
Until the completion of recruitment.
Applications will be screened on an ongoing basis, so you are encouraged to apply as soon as possible.

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.

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