Mechanical Engineering Manager

Are you a team player with a passion for empowering and nurturing the success of others? Can you serve as a role model who naturally inspires, motivates, and develops a team? Do you have a flair for product development and the ability to set direction, inspire, and prioritize critical tasks? Then, seize the opportunity today as you could be the new manager of a world class mechanical development team, we are seeking in Device Engineering (DE), a part of Devices & Delivery Solutions (DDS)

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The position

As Manager for a Mechanical Engineering team in DE, you will manage one of three Mechanical Engineering teams comprising 10-14 professionals. You will play a crucial role in maintaining and developing the necessary capabilities in Mechanical Engineering to support the DDS strategy. Reporting to the director of DE, your responsibilities will include managing project allocations, building capabilities, and operationalizing the team's strategy.

Some of your main responsibilities include:

We look forward to welcoming you to a fun and a dynamic leadership team where you will be developing your leader skills every day by working with your team and through collaboration and constructive feedback .

Qualifications

To succeed in this position, we expect you to:

As a person, you are reflective with leadership aspirations and skills. You are a proactive team player who is energetic and likes to challenge the status quo while focusing on solutions and opportunities. You have a demonstrated ability to identify better practices and create improvements in methods, techniques, and approaches. Your empathy and assertiveness make you a role model for others, and you are not afraid to make bold decisions. You can easily build and manage networks. Finally, you have good mentoring and training skills along with a positive mindset.

About the Department

In Device Engineering, we are responsible for all project deliveries within key engineering disciplines, including Systems Engineering, Risk Management, and Mechanical Engineering. We are a team of over 100 people continuously adapting to develop and deliver best-in-class products in the most efficient and enjoyable way possible.

As a Mechanical Engineering manager, you will be part of a team of 8 leaders, each organized according to skill type and focused on either variants or platforms. Being part of a new and growing organization requires a strong focus on collaboration and ensuring competence development and process optimization/development for your specific engineering area.

Mechanical Engineering underpins most aspects of medical device development, so our work is integrated into various processes within the development and manufacturing landscape, and our stakeholders have backgrounds in a variety of engineering and scientific disciplines.

DE is part of Delivery Solutions Engineering (DSE) in DDS, and we are passionate about developing the world's best medical devices for the treatment of chronic diseases within our focused therapeutic areas: Diabetes, Obesity, Haemophilia & Growth hormone disorders. We design and develop delivery systems for our treatments to ensure correct dosing and convenience for the patient. Our devices are developed in close collaboration between patients and the scientific discovery teams at Novo Nordisk, ensuring that the developed devices are safe and easy for patients to use while being compatible with the drug products taken into development.