Senior Engineering Project Manager

Are you passionate about utilizing contemporary technology? Would you be interested in taking on a significant responsibility in directing projects at one of our upcoming facility sites?

If yes, then you could be the ideal candidate for the position of Senior Engineering Project Manager that we are seeking. Don't miss out on the chance to apply for this thrilling job opportunity at Novo Nordisk!
 
The Position
As the Senior Engineering Project Manager, you will oversee scoping, scheduling, resource and risk management, procurement, quality, EHS, and cost controls to ensure project expectations are met. Your primary focus will be to develop processes and facilities for our facility and production lines, collaborating with colleagues to find innovative solutions and defining solutions with the project team and suppliers. You will facilitate multiple high-complexity projects, ensuring timely delivery and quality control, requiring flexibility and adaptability.
 
Other activities will include:
•    Collaboration with our vendors, to ensure they follow our schedule.
•    Helping the sites get the production line solutions into operations.
•    Ensuring that our Science and Risk-based validation is documented and applied in a standardized way.
•    Leading engineering review processes.
•    Coordinating between all projects.
 
At the moment, the workplace is at our project office in Høje Taastrup, but within the coming year it will be in Odense.
 
Qualifications
An ideal candidate should have GMP and Project Management experience within CAPEX capacity expansions. We expect this person to be able to manage high-complexity projects and stakeholders within tight deadlines.

To be successful in this role, you should have:
•    A technical degree within engineering, pharmaceutical science or similar.
•    5+ years of experience within production/packaging/assembly lines. 
•    Science and Risk-based validation knowledge from the pharmaceutical industry is an advantage.
•    Strong leadership and project management skills with experience executing projects on a large scale.
•    Great stakeholder management skills and ability to build relations in a global context.
•    Fluency in written and spoken English.
    
You are a quality-focused individual with a problem-solving approach and a passion for developing new solutions and challenging the status quo. Your visionary and innovative outlook enables you to promote process optimization and digitalization alongside colleagues. Your excellent communication skills allow you to build cross-functional relationships.
 
About the Department
You will be joining Fill & Finish Expansions (FFEX). The area is anchored in Product Supply, Quality & IT, which globally employ approximately 28,500 of Novo Nordisk’s 64,000 employees. Fill & Finish Expansions is a newly established and growing area with the responsibility to design, plan and build all major fill & finish expansion projects across PSQIT to serve the needs of millions of patients. We do it by rethinking our fill & finish facilities with the use of modern technology. We are setting the standards for the future, designing facilities we will still be proud of many decades from now. Fill & Finish Expansions has a global approach, where you will be working with multiple sites and cultures across the world.

Our department is committed to delivering innovative solutions and driving change in the pharmaceutical industry. Join our team and make a difference in the lives of millions of patients worldwide.

Working at Novo Nordisk
Novo Nordisk is a leading global healthcare company with a 100-year legacy of driving change to defeat serious chronic diseases. Building on our strong legacy within diabetes, we are growing massively and expanding our commitment, reaching millions around the world and impacting more than 40 million patient lives daily. All of this has made us one of the 20 most valuable companies in the world by market cap. Our success relies on the joint potential and collaboration of our more than 63,000 employees around the world. We recognize the importance of the unique skills and perspectives our people bring to the table, and we work continuously to bring out the best in them. Working at Novo Nordisk, we’re working toward something bigger than ourselves, and it’s a collective effort. Join us! Together, we go further. Together, we’re life changing.
 
Contact
For further information you are welcome to contact Sevgi Polat Kartal, Senior Manager at +45 30793802 or get to know us better by visiting Novo Nordisk Global Manufacturing Careers. 
 
Deadline
28 April 2024.

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

At Novo Nordisk we recognize that it is no longer good enough to aspire to be the best company in the world. We need to aspire to be the best company for the world and we know that this is only possible with talented employees with diverse perspectives, backgrounds and cultures. We are therefore committed to creating an inclusive culture that celebrates the diversity of our employees, the patients we serve and communities we operate in. Together, we’re life changing.