Process Engineer

Are you a professional focused on data analysis, process systems and descriptive and prescriptive analytics? Do you feel a true passion for understanding pharmaceutical processes, developing monitoring tools and analysing data for recommendations for improvements? Would you like to have a business impact and deepen your understanding of how interconnected decisions play a crucial role in producing active pharmaceutical ingredients (APIs)?

Then you might be our new Process Engineer for Novo Nordisk's API Manufacturing Read on and apply today

As a Process Engineer, you will join the team responsible for the final step in purification. Everything we do is regulated by Good Manufacturing Practice Requirements (GMP). There is also a strong focus on LEAN-systems, which together with our quality mindset, drives continuous improvements across the department.

Depending on your experience, you will also be involved in optimization projects and, with time, help support colleagues across production facilities. Our team members provide support to the processes and the process operators on a day-to-day basis on the shop floor. We ensure smooth operation by optimizing current monitoring processes within regulatory requirements. Systematic problem solving is a part of our daily work. Different LEAN-tools are used to eliminate problems completely as a part of our LEAN focus in daily operation.

The main tasks will be to:

1. Use a data-based approach for quantifying process deviations.
2. Analyse large amounts of data for extracting correlation and causation for process understanding.
3. Develop and maintain statistical process control charts for process monitoring.
4. Use a team-based approach for recommending process improvements-optimizations.

To succeed in this role, you have:

1. A min. of a bachelor's or a master's degree in chemical, industrial or mechanical engineering or a similar field.
2. Strong experience in a similar position and experience with freeze-drying process/equipment, which will be considered a plus.
3. Knowledge of GMP.
4. Full professional proficiency in written and spoken English and an intermediate level of Danish, or a strong will to learn Danish.

As a person, you are a true team player with excellent communication and collaboration skills. This role requires the ability to be self-driven and independently analyse data to extract crucial information. Success in this role involves conveying complex information to diverse audiences and explaining purposes to ensure everyone is on board. A strong appetite for solving complex problems is fundamental, as we value a systematic approach to managing complexity and achieving feasible solutions.

As part of Novo Nordisk's Product Supply organization, Active Pharmaceutical Ingredients is responsible for manufacturing several types of products. You will be assigned to the factory "Manufacturing 1" (M1), one of the world's largest API manufacturing Facilities located in Kalundborg. M1 has 5 facilities operating under one roof. You will be employed in the Purification department, with a team of skilled international colleagues all working together to ensure that API is purified in a compliant process and in the right quality.

The department of Purification lies at the interface between Upstream manufacturing, where the initial API is generated and Product formulation where the API is formulated into the final product for the patient. Purification plays an important role in API manufacturing because it is responsible for generating the final API, purifying it to a high quality and ensuring that the product is supplied to the next stage in the supply chain for access to the patient. Therefore, a good quality mindset, data analysis, process monitoring, dialogue with key stakeholders and recommendations for process improvements are crucial.

At Novo Nordisk manufacturing hub in Kalundborg, we are growing. From 2022-2029 we will invest 60 billion DKK to expand existing facilities for the current and future portfolio within serious chronic diseases. This will establish additional capacity across the entire global value chain from manufacturing of active pharmaceutical ingredients (API) to packaging, with the vast majority being invested in API capacity. With the investment, more than 1200 new jobs will be created. This is your opportunity to be part of our journey and help establish the future factories of Novo Nordisk.

Today, our 4,500 employees at Novo Nordisk Kalundborg produce half of the world's insulin and a number of biopharmaceutical products, and we are never standing still. Together, we make a difference every day for more than 40 million people living with diabetes and other chronic diseases.

Our site is located a few minutes from the city, and just one stop with the train from the site. The train can also take you directly from the site to Copenhagen in around one hour.

Many newcomers find it easy to build a network of like-minded people coming from Denmark or internationals. Some can find a network through hobbies and sports, social network groups, colleagues or employees from other local businesses.

For further information, please contact Senior Process Scientist Petr B. Efler at +45 30797061 or Manager, Rikke Helsted at +45 30752527.

5 January 2025.

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