Automation Specialist in Fill & Finish Expansion Programme

Are you an automation engineer who believes in ‘teamwork makes dream work’? Do you have a craving to enable shopfloor value with new, scalable, and sustainable automation technologies and do you thrive in delivering automation projects in dynamic and diverse environments? 

If you are seeking a challenge that enable you to make a massive difference to Novo Nordisk, then read on! Apply for this role today!

The position
As our new engineer in Automation & IT, you will play a prominent role in Fill & Finish production expansions where you will be part of building our new global and digital AP Module and accelerating the implementation across global sites. You will also be part of a group responsible for advancing the use of new innovative and existing technologies. More specifically, you will be working within the filling area and drive all automation related activities at a global scale. Moreover, as a specialist you will act as a resource for junior engineers.

Being a part of the Fill & Finish Expansion Programme, you will gain a broad network across stakeholders both in Novo Nordisk and suppliers. You will collaborate closely with process, engineering and production responsible stakeholders to assess requirements and rightly influence the design. You will have an active and strong voice amongst a network of automation engineers, specialists and architects.

As a part of the program execution, you will play a key part in FAT and SAT activities, to make sure the equipment lives up to the standards required. As we are working at a global scale, travel is required to support execution of key project activities.
  
Qualifications
To succeed in this role, we expect that you have:

• A master, bachelor, or technician degree within automation or/and IT and have technical experience from the automation/production industry
• Experience with one or more of the following technologies: MES, PCS, IOT, PLC and Industry 4.0
• Requires in-depth knowledge of Automation architecture and IT solutions within aseptic production environment
• Experience with filling production lines
• Experience working in a GMP regulated industry environment
• Experience from CAPEX projects
• Project management skills is not a need but will be an advantage

As a person, you are motivated to apply your professional knowledge to solve specific challenges, and you communicate effectively while also securing adherence to technical quality standards and importance of quality.

You excel at working independently, completing tasks effectively, and participating as an excellent teammate in project teams. You are persistent in your task resolution, focusing on opportunities rather than limitations and thrive in an energic environment where new challenges and focus can change quickly, always keeping the overall common goal in mind.

You are proactive, curious and good at building relations. You ensure followership and are good at teaching and onboarding young talents.

About the department
DD&IT PS – Fill & Finish Expansions is a program organization - built in a multi-dimensional matrix structure, that’s designed to foster cross-organizational and cross-functional collaboration to shape our future.
Our goal is to design and build future-proof, global fill & finish production facilities, with a focus on establishing strong foundational IT and automation that will enable these facilities to digitally evolve. 
As a member of our department, you will work closely with colleagues responsible for processes and engineering, as well as various technology partners both internally and externally.

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
For further information, please contact Josephine Alling Møller, People Leader at +45 3077 5084.

Deadline
23 March 2025
 

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.