Metrology Engineer

Are you skilled within metrology in the pharmaceutical industry and want to use your expertise to set the standard for future metrology in a global perspective?

Join us at Novo Nordisk and play a key role in developing and implementing maintenance standards that ensure our equipment run at peak performance. 

The Position

As a Metrology Engineer in Fill & Finish Expansions, you will play a crucial role within the Operational Standards organization. In the Fill & Finish Expansions program, we are responsible for establishing new production facilities, where we will introduce a lot of new process equipment within Aseptic and Finish production, Intra Logistics and QC labs.

In the Operational Standards organization we are responsible for making common standards for how to operate the new equipment, thereby developing and implementing a common standards for metrology.

We are developing the maintenance plans calibration rationales, by using internal best practice templates and engaging in co-creation with the sites.

Your responsibilities will include:

• Plan and execute workshops with all relevant stakeholders to ensure highest quality of calibration rationales.
• The development of the Calibration rationales for specific equipment and ensure deadlines are met.
• Provide guidance to the sites on how to develop the Calibration rationales, by using existing standards.
• Ensuring the quality and consistency of the Calibration rationales meet the expectations.

The role will require collaboration with our global sites. To facilitate this, some travel is expected, estimated at 2-3 trips per year.

Qualifications

To be successful in this position, you should have:

• An academic degree within engineering, life science, be a marine engineer (maskinmester), or have a technical background within metrology.
• Minimum 3 years of experience from an operations, calibration or maintenance organization from a pharmaceutical production facility.
• Solid understanding of GMP requirements and the ability to communicate complex content in a simple way.
• Strong stakeholder skills to work globally.
• Experience working with SAP, risk assessments, and metrology or instrumentation would be considered as advantage.
• Project management experience would be considered an asset.

As an ideal candidate for this role, you can communicate fluently in English, both in written and spoken form. You set high standards for your work, and you are data-driven.

You are a team player who works well with managing complex dependencies between different areas in a structured way. The significance of collaborating in this job cannot be overstated, making it essential to possess the ability to find common ground, being pragmatic or engage in productive discussions when making decisions. Our stakeholders are key to our success, and we expect you to create great relationships.

About the department

You will be joining Fill & Finish Expansions. The area is anchored in Product Supply, Quality & IT, which globally employ approximately 28,500 employees. Fill & Finish Expansions is a newly established and growing area with the responsibility to design, plan and build all major fill & finish expansion projects across PSQIT to serve the needs of millions of patients. We do it by rethinking our fill & finish facilities with the use of modern technology. We are setting the standards for the future, designing facilities we will still be proud of many decades from now. Fill & Finish Expansions has a global approach, where you will be working with multiple sites and cultures across the world.

The Maintenance Standard team is located in Lyngby. We work in close collaboration with the sites, to utilize the resources the best and ensuring we develop a product that works in daily operation. We are a dynamic and fast-paced team dedicated to maintaining and improving our manufacturing processes. Our team consists of highly skilled professionals who work closely together to achieve our goals. We value collaboration, innovation, and continuous improvement. Join us and be a part of a team that makes a difference.

To learn more about Fill & Finish Expansions in Novo Nordisk visit our career site here: Let's build the future for patients: Exciting Careers in Growing Expansion Project (novonordisk.com).

Working at Novo Nordisk

Novo Nordisk is a leading global healthcare company with a 100-year legacy of driving change to defeat serious chronic diseases. Building on our strong legacy within diabetes, we are growing massively and expanding our commitment, reaching millions around the world and impacting more than 40 million patient lives daily. All of this has made us one of the 20 most valuable companies in the world by market cap. Our success relies on the joint potential and collaboration of our more than 72,000 employees around the world. We recognize the importance of the unique skills and perspectives our people bring to the table, and we work continuously to bring out the best in them. Working at Novo Nordisk, we’re working toward something bigger than ourselves, and it’s a collective effort. Join us! Together, we go further. Together, we’re life changing.

Contact

If you want to know more please reach out to Senior Maintenance Manager, Sigurd Skov Larsen, on +sgsl@novonordisk.com or +4530758729 or get to know us better by visiting our career site here Novo Nordisk Global Manufacturing Careers. 

Deadline

9 February 2025.

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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.