Senior Pilot Scientist for CMC Aseptic Pilot Plant

Do you want to implement, validate, and maintain equipment? Are you an academic with strong process and validation skills, ready to take responsibility for keeping our operational equipment running? If yes, then we have the right job for you!

The Position

As our new Senior Pilot Scientist, you will quickly get up to speed and have a large responsibility.

You will be part of a support team together with 15 dedicated and talented equipment colleagues and 9 mechanics. Our primary tasks are within implementation and validation of equipment as well as optimizations and finding the right solutions for the clinical production. We handle change requests, deviations, validation protocols, reports, and solves bigger and smaller optimization projects across the department.

As almost every production is a new project in the department all tasks must be solved cross-functionally with colleagues both within and outside of the department. The complexity of your tasks will increase with your experience.

Qualifications

You have a M.Sc. in Natural Science, engineering or equivalent combined with a technical interest in production equipment. 
 

The optimal candidate:

• Has strong experience within validation

• Comes with process and technical skills

• Likes to work independently with complex tasks

• Has experience with the LEAN way of working

• Has GMP experience

• Speaks and writes fluently in Danish or another Scandinavian language

As a person you are a strong team player who can collaborate well with a diverse group of stakeholders. You contribute with great spirits, initiative, and flexibility. You are known for your can-do attitude, are comfortable with practical tasks, and find it natural to bring your technical knowledge into play when finding the right solution to a specific task. You have a strong business understanding and can challenge existing ways of working while proactively driving implementation of new solutions.

About the Department

Aseptic Pilot Plant is part of CMC and responsible for production of new aseptic medicinal products for clinical studies, primarily for phase 1 and 2. We are approx. 80 employees divided in 3 teams, who work together to maintain all functions in the aseptic facility. APP covers the responsibilities, wash and sterilisation, preparation, filling, inspection, utility, environmental monitoring, cleaning, maintenance, and validation.

In your daily tasks you will collaborate with mechanics, operators, technicians, chemists, and engineers who work determined towards delivering products for our customers and for the development projects in the right quality at the right time.

We work on day shift and our department is well-functioning and productive. It should be fun to go to work, and for us a healthy working environment is a must. Together, we will ensure that you immediately feel welcome around your new colleagues, who love to share their knowledge and always take care of each other.

Working at Novo Nordisk

We are a proud life-science company, and life is our reason to exist. We’re inspired by life in all its forms and shapes, ups and downs, opportunities and challenges. For employees at Novo Nordisk, life means many things – from the building blocks of life that form the basis of ground-breaking scientific research, to our rich personal lives that motivate and energise us to perform our best at work. Ultimately, life is why we’re all here - to ensure that people can lead a life independent of chronic disease.

Contact

For further information, please contact Associate Manager Mia Nygaard Daae at + 45 3079 7954.

Deadline

Apply before April, 15 2024. Please note that applications will be reviewed continuously, and interviews will be planned ongoing

You do not need to attach a cover letter to your application, but please include a few sentences about why you are applying in your resume or CV. To ensure an efficient and fair recruitment process, please refrain from adding a photo in your CV.

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.