Facility Technician

Are you passionate about maintaining and optimising facility systems? Do you have a knack for collaborating with stakeholders and ensuring the smooth operation of production processes? If so, you might be the Facility Technician we are looking for! 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 more than 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 64,000 people in 80 countries, and markets our products in more than 170 countries.

The Production Engineering & Facilities Department at Novo Nordisk is dedicated to ensuring that facility and material handling systems are always ready for production. We focus on stabilising and improving these systems while proactively collaborating and coordinating with stakeholders within the Koriyama plant regarding potential process changes and deviations. Our team is responsible for the maintenance, modification, and updating of facility systems based on the annual maintenance program, as well as implementing energy-saving activities for buildings and facilities. The job is based in Koriyama, where we foster a dynamic and collaborative atmosphere.

The position
As a Facility Technician at Novo Nordisk, you will:

• Maintain the building, facility, or material handling systems through parts inspection and replacement, with an emphasis on energy savings.
• Collaborate with external suppliers or vendors to address technical issues and ensure on-site technical support when needed.
• Ensure the implementation of regular maintenance activities as per planned schedules (daily, monthly, bi-monthly, quarterly, bi-annually).
• Coordinate the procurement and provision of necessary goods or repair and maintenance services from external vendors.
• Prepare and update validation and relevant documentation for new or modified processes, conducting validation in accordance with relevant local and global procedures while ensuring proper risk assessment and change control for any changes impacting GxP, product quality, and patient safety prior to their implementation.

Qualifications

• High school or university graduate (preference for degrees in engineering or related fields).
• Over 5 years of experience as facility technician, particularly in repair and maintenance.
• Strong teamwork and communication.
• Ownership and leadership qualities.
• Proactiveness, collaboration, innovative mindset, adaptability to change, self-motivation, self-starting attitude.

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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