IT/Automation Engineer

Enterprise IT and Quality

Måløv, Denmark

This opportunity is unordinary because it places you at the intersection of advanced automation and critical business processes within a global healthcare leader. You’ll have the rare chance to manage compliant, high-impact IT and automation solutions that directly support Novo Nordisk’s mission while working in an evolving environment in Måløv.

Your new role

As an IT/Automation Engineer, you will play a key role in managing and maintaining IT and automation systems to support our production processes. Your responsibilities will include:

• Keeping IT and automation solutions operational in close collaboration with Line of Business (LoB).
• Performing system administration and management of IT and automation solutions including troubleshooting, management of users, backup/recovery, configuration, dataflows and lifecycle management.
• Ensuring compliance and maintaining the “license to operate” for IT and automation systems including maintaining documentation and validation status.
• Leading and participating in optimisation and upgrade projects.
• Managing security of IT and automation solutions.
• Conducting risk management and troubleshooting.
• Coordinating with internal and external partners and vendors on IT and automation-related tasks.

Your new department

You’ll be part of a vibrant team of 10 colleagues within our CMC&PS IT - ET area, where we support the daily operations and collaborate closely with various areas of Emerging Technologies, including bulk, packaging, and quality assurance. Expect a work atmosphere filled with camaraderie, diverse backgrounds, and a commitment to supporting each other's success.

Your skills and qualifications

We are looking for a candidate with the following qualifications:

• Educational degree within computer or natural science, engineering, or similar.
• +2 years of experience preferable in operation and maintenance of IT solutions, preferably within production or QC in the pharmaceutical industry. –
• Experience with various Windows systems, automation, PLC controllers, SCADA, database management, user management processes, and backup procedures.
• Experience with GxP related processes and systems.
• Fluent in written and spoken English and Danish.

As a person, you are quality-minded and structured, with strong technical and analytical skills, excellent networking and interpersonal abilities, and a high sense of responsibility.

Working at Novo Nordisk

Every day we seek the solutions that defeat serious chronic diseases. To do this, we approach our work with an unconventional spirit, a rare determination and a constant curiosity. For over 100 years this unordinary mindset has seen us build a company unlike any other. One where a collective passion for our purpose, mutual respect and a willingness to go beyond what we know delivers extraordinary results.

What We Offer 
There is, of course, more on offer here than the uniqueness of our culture and the extraordinary results we produce. Being part of a global healthcare company means opportunities to learn and develop are all around us, while our benefits are designed with your career and life stage in mind.

More information

For any further information, please contact Manager, Thomas Holm Juhl, on +45 3079 0135.

Deadline

7 January, 2026.

We commit to an inclusive recruitment process and equality of opportunity for all our job applicants. 

We’re not your typical healthcare company. In a modern world of quick fixes, we focus on solutions to defeat serious chronic diseases and promote long-term health. Our unordinary mindset is at the heart of everything we do. We seek out new ideas and put people first as we push the boundaries of science, make healthcare more accessible, and treat, prevent, and even cure diseases that affect millions of lives. Because it takes an unordinary approach to drive real, lasting change in health.