Facility Professional

Are you passionate about maintaining and improving facility systems? Do you have a knack for collaborating with external suppliers and ensuring energy efficiency? If so, we invite you to join our Production Engineering and Facilities Team 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, hemophilia, 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.
At the Koriyama Factory, our mission is to ensure that facility, building, and MHS systems are always ready for production. We focus on stabilizing and improving these systems while proactively collaborating and coordinating with stakeholders within the plant. Our team is responsible for the maintenance, modification, and updating of facility, building, and material handling systems (MHS) systems based on the annual maintenance program. We also implement energy-saving activities for buildings and facilities and handle the installation and validation of air conditioning equipment in external warehouses. Located in Koriyama, our fast-paced and dynamic environment is home to a dedicated team committed to excellence.

The position
As a Facility Professional, you will:

• Inspect buildings, facilities, and MHS, ensuring energy-efficient part replacements.
• Collaborate with external suppliers or vendors on technical issues, providing on-site technical support when necessary.
• Ensure regular maintenance activities are in place according to planned programs on a daily, monthly, bi-monthly, quarterly, and bi-annual basis.
• Procure necessary goods and repair and maintenance (R&M) services from external vendors, prepare for energy-related inquiries from Novo Nordisk.
• Prepare and update utility system validation and relevant documentation, implementing new or modified processes and performing validation in accordance with relevant local and global procedures.

Qualifications

• High school or university graduate (preference for degrees in engineering or related fields).
• More than 5 years of experience in facility work.
• Experience in installment or expansion project, repairing and maintenance.
• Strong teamwork and communication skills, ownership and leadership capabilities, collaboration and proactiveness, kaizen and innovative mindset, adaptability to change, self-motivated and a self-starter.
• Advanced level of Japanese proficiency.

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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