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It’s not unusual to push the boundaries of process engineering, but in this role, you’ll push the boundaries in the field of large-scale Active Pharmaceutical Ingredients (API) facilities or pharmaceutical projects too.

Your new role

As part of the API manufacturing organisation, your new role in M3 project will be to participate in project activities from design to construction, commissioning, qualification and later operation, while never losing focus of a proper care for documentation.

Day-to-day your tasks will include:

  • Supporting the project around new equipment, systems, and processes for API downstream processing
  • Reviewing designs, preparing test and qualification documents, and executing test and qualification runs
  • Collaborating with suppliers to clarify technical issues and conduct inspections and build a team of qualified operators to ensure smooth operations
  • Utilizing your hands-on experience with operating large-scale bio-pharma facilities to define and describe how to operate in our new facility
  • Taking on an operational role after the project is finished, where you will have a significant position in the API manufacturing organization

Your new department

In CMC & Product Supply, we cover the full value chain from drug and device development to marketed Novo Nordisk products. We are more than 30,000 colleagues across the globe with the shared responsibility of scaling molecules, processes, devices, and products, dedicated to supplying life-saving medicines to the patients who need them most.

Within CMC & Product Supply PS API Expansions project, sits M3 project, where you will be joining a team of 12 process engineers which are each responsible for their systems and work package, ensuring that project schedule, budget, and quality standards are maintained. Proactively monitor and control all aspects of project execution, addressing and mitigating any deviations promptly to prevent escalation and ensure successful outcomes.

Your skills & qualifications

We’re looking for a new Senior Process Engineer who will enjoy working in a

high-paced, dynamic environment. You’ll bring with you:

  • 5+ years of practical experience from operating large-scale API facilities, with at least some years of experience in pharmaceutical projects
  • Good understanding of Good Manufacturing Practice (cGMP) and Good Documentation Practice (GDP)
  • An ability to enjoy close teamwork while having the responsibility for your process and keeping on developing the amazing collaboration and stakeholder management skills. Also, self-drive, adaptability and the ability to inspire your team and colleagues through ambitious targets, goal setting, clarity and rapid decision making. It is essential to stay motivated by being part of a new organisation from the beginning through the projection and into operation
  • Excellent communications skills to all levels and fluency in English
  • A minimum of a bachelor’s degree in chemistry, pharmaceutical process engineering, mechanical engineering, marine engineering and technology management or similar field

About Site Kalundborg

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. Novo Nordisk Kalundborg

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

You are welcome to contact Senior Project Manager Casper Slots via email at ccps@novonordisk.com if you have questions about the role. Be advised Casper will not support queries about your recruitment status and there might be a delay in his reply due to summer holidays.

Deadline

27 July 2025. (Applications are reviewed on an ongoing basis).

Novo Nordisk is 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.

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