Global Equipment Responsible
- Category:
- Manufacturing
Are you ready to support and be part of shaping the future of manufacturing at Novo Nordisk? Are you motivated by standardization and scaling up and ready to change the game together with your team and the production sites around the world?
Then this is a unique opportunity to join a team of highly competent professionals and specialist impacting the way we produce diabetes products around the world.
For this position, expert knowledge about our production equipment is essential to succeed. Therefore, the candidate will have to choose between, and work from one of our four sites located respectively in Brazil, France, the US, and China. The candidate will be contracted directly with the site chosen, in accordance with local labour law and standards. It will, however, be possible to relocate to Denmark in the future.
The position
As our new Global Equipment Responsible, you will have the responsibility and ownership of the new fleet of Inspection lines, with focus on maintaining the standardized equipment through development and implementation in line with the global standards and asset management strategy for global IFP. Furthermore, you will be responsible for monitoring and improving performance for the platform throughout the lifespan of the equipment. You will report directly to the Head of Manufacturing Maintenance and Engineering and be part of the new team.
As such, you will maintain a key role in establishing the set of standards and maximizing performance for the inspection line fleet for the future.
Your key responsibilities will be:
• Developing, implementing, and sustaining a standardized approach for maintenance and asset management of the inspection fleet.
• To ensure the lines are kept standard across all sites, through management and oversight for all future changes.
• Monitoring performance across several KPIs to ensure optimal performance, including ensuring any local knowledge and optimizations are shared and implemented globally.
• Establishing a standard way of handling changes and maintaining the standardization across Inspection process and reliability program for all engineering assets/platforms, including the replacement and overall utilization strategy. Ensure that those solutions are easy scalable, not only within the inspection process but across different processes e.g. filling, assembly, etc.
• Close collaboration with Inspection Process Group and Novo Nordisk Process Manager.
• Supporting the IFP Sites and ManDev in providing direction for standard methodology for the new fleet of inspection lines, incl. assessing contentious improvements and process optimizations
• Establishing and maintaining operational standards for the inspection lines
You can also look forward to other tasks, such as optimizing shutdown initiatives, ramp up of the new lines, creating standard recipes, shaping global and local resources coordination approach, following changes to the equipment, in partnership with the sites. You will have a pivotal role in ensuring that technical training programs are established and deployed, with the aim of simplifying, streamlining, and standardizing the inspection process and leveraging the industry best practices (following Good Engineering and Good Manufacturing Practices).
The lines will be located at existing IFP sites, with existing experience and knowledge of earlier generation lines. As such, the sites will be able to manage the majority of the tasks requiring physical intervention.
Qualifications
The understanding of industrial equipment in the pharma industry or similar is a must, and experience with automated visual inspection or image processing is a plus. Knowledge of the aseptic process is an advantage we imagine, however, that an ideal candidate for this position should have the following qualifications:
• An academic degree in engineering or a related technical field.
• +5 years of technical field experience in a global context, including international assignments.
• Profound project management knowledge and experience being part of global teams.
• Broad hands-on experience in engineering and maintenance, with a track record in driving equipment improvements
• Having cLEAN and/or Six Sigma background is a plus.
• Fluent in English.
On a personal level, you have a high level of integrity, are open-minded and curious, and therefore constantly on the lookout for how to improve processes. You are a team player, a great collaborator, and you utilize your relationships with your stakeholders to achieve success in your projects and tasks. You have a strong personal drive, are ambitious, not afraid to challenge the status quo in a risk-adverse industry, and act as a problem-solver. You are able to drive projects from idea conception all the way through to effectiveness checks. You can communicate complex technical issues in a clear manner, and you have the ability to work with in a global context with manufacturing sites and in global headquarters.
About the department
We are a newly established organisational unit, Asset Management & Platform Performance (AMPP). With almost 100 colleagues, we play a key role in accelerating a major transformation to improve performance across a global network of factories in Asia, Europe as well as North and South America to meet the need of the increasing number of people living with diabetes and obesity. AMPP is an organizational unit in Injectable Finished Products (IFP), which is the largest production area in Novo Nordisk. With more than 9,000 employees, IFP is a truly global organization responsible for producing products for launches of all new diabetes and obesity products in Novo Nordisk supplying nearly 50% of the world’ insulin (for more information please visit www.novonordisk.com). Come join us in driving change for patients around the world.
Working at Novo Nordisk
At Novo Nordisk, we don’t wait for change. We drive it. We’re a dynamic company in an even more dynamic industry, and we know that what got us to where we are today is not necessarily what will make us successful in the future. We embrace the spirit of experimentation, striving for excellence without fixating on perfection. We never shy away from opportunities to develop, we seize them. From research and development, through to manufacturing, marketing and sales – we’re all working to move the needle on patient care.
Contact
For further information you are welcome to contact Project Director, Igor Stojanovic on: +45 30 79 93 36.
Deadline
15 June, 2024
Please note that interviews will be held on an ongoing basis, so apply today.
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