Laboratory Specialist

Ferrosan Medical Devices; Søborg; Hybrid; DKK 550,000 - 700,000; Full time

Job summary

Ferrosan Medical Devices Group in Søborg, Denmark, is seeking a Laboratory Specialist responsible for laboratory operations and systems in R&D. The role blends hands-on lab work with ownership of workflows and digital platforms that keep the lab running efficiently.

You will qualify equipment, manage documentation, support feasibility studies, and contribute to cross-functional projects. The position emphasizes quality, GMP/GLP awareness, and continuous improvement in a hybrid work environment.

Qualifications

• Qualification as a laboratory technician or laboratory technologist, or a professional bachelor’s degree or equivalent.
• Experience from an R&D, medtech, or other regulated laboratory environment.
• Proven ability to take independent ownership of workflows and systems.
• Experience with digital workflows and systems; proficient in Microsoft Office; familiarity with SAP, QMS, LIMS; understanding GMP/GLP.
• LEAN or process optimisation experience is advantageous.
• Fluent in Danish and English.

Responsibilities

• Plan and conduct R&D feasibility studies and contribute to experimental design.
• Prepare and review protocols and reports; participate in project meetings.
• Share day-to-day operations and improve laboratory workflows.
• Equipment qualification, calibration, servicing; handle change requests and quality notifications.
• Prepare instructions and experimental documentation; sample handling; purchasing; chemical management in EcoOnline.
• Train colleagues to use solutions for equipment and service tracking, inventory and sample management.

Skills

Lab workflow ownership

Hands-on laboratory work

Documentation

Coordination

LEAN/Process improvement

GMP/GLP awareness

Microsoft Office

Danish & English fluency

Education

Lab technician qualification or technologist

Professional bachelor’s degree or equivalent

Tools

SAP

QMS

LIMS

Job description

Laboratory Specialist responsible for laboratory operations and systems in R&D

A hybrid laboratory technician-scientist role combining technical and scientific documentation with ownership of laboratory systems and workflows.

Would you like to combine hands-on laboratory work with responsibility for advancing the systems and workflows that keep an R&D laboratory running effectively?

In Biomaterials R&D, we develop innovative and robust solutions within haemostatic products and biomaterials through close collaboration across the company. Our ambition is to strengthen our technical capabilities and foster a culture defined by ownership, accountability, and high standards.

We are therefore looking for a quality-conscious and self-driven Laboratory Specialist to help develop and operate our R&D laboratories. The role gives you the opportunity to contribute directly to development projects while shaping the systems and workflows that will make our laboratory operations more efficient and robust in the future.

Every two seconds, our products help surgeons and nurses control bleeding and avoid complications during surgery. For us—and in surgery—every second counts, and we need you on our team!

R&D Laboratories

R&D Laboratories is part of Biomaterials R&D within the wider R&D organisation. You will join a close-knit team of three laboratory technicians and two student assistants, taking on a central role that connects day-to-day laboratory operations with the department’s development projects. The work spans the organisation and involves a broad range of physicochemical, chemical, rheological, and mechanical analytical equipment.

Your day-to-day work will alternate between hands-on laboratory activities and improving laboratory operations. You will conduct and document experiments while taking ownership of solutions that create better structure, transparency, and robustness in the laboratory.

You will typically be part of one or more project teams, contributing practical laboratory experience and an understanding of robust workflows. Your responsibilities will include planning and conducting R&D feasibility studies, contributing to experimental design, preparing and reviewing protocols and reports, and actively participating in project meetings and workshops.

As part of the laboratory team, you will share responsibility for day-to-day operations and the continuous improvement of laboratory workflows. Your tasks will include equipment qualification, calibration, and servicing; handling of laboratory related change requests and quality notifications; preparing instructions and experimental documentation; sample handling; purchasing; and chemical management in EcoOnline. You will also prepare and maintain chemical risk assessments and supervise student assistants and laboratory technician trainees. In addition, you will establish and maintain solutions for equipment and service tracking, inventory and sample management, planning, documentation, and follow-up—and train colleagues to use them.

Hands-on Laboratory Experience And a Flair For Systems

We are looking for a positive and professionally grounded colleague who thrives on both hands-on laboratory work and developing the systems that keep the laboratory running. You work in a structured and independent manner, follow through on your tasks, and can turn a need into a simple, practical workflow. It is essential that you are energised by continuously optimising and simplifying workflows and that coordination comes naturally to you. At the same time, you are quality-conscious, observant, and detail-oriented, and you are motivated by collaborating with laboratory technicians, scientists, and other functions across the organisation.

In addition, you have the following qualifications:

• You hold a qualification as a laboratory technician or laboratory technologist, a professional bachelor's degree or similar, and have experience from an R&D, medtech, or other regulated laboratory environment. More important than the number of years you have worked is your proven ability to take independent ownership of workflows and systems.
• You thrive on varied laboratory tasks.
• You have experience with—or a strong interest in—establishing and maintaining digital workflows and systems. You are confident using Microsoft Office and ideally have experience with SAP, QMS, LIMS, or similar systems, as well as an understanding of GMP, GLP, or other relevant quality requirements.
• You take the initiative to make improvements, can bring structure to complex workflows, and follow solutions through to implementation and stable operation.
• Experience with LEAN or other methods for process optimisation and continuous improvement would be an advantage.
• You are fluent in written and spoken Danish and English.

Location

Søborg, Denmark. We offer flexibility through a hybrid work model, while recognizing that regular on-site presence is an important part of building strong relationships, supporting cross-functional collaboration.

We offer an exciting workplace where you can have real influence

We offer an exciting and challenging job and a workplace with strong values. What exactly this means is quickly visible to our new colleagues. We are driven by improving patient outcomes, and we take our values to work every day - we care about each other, our environment, and our customers, and we win for patients with innovative high-quality products.You will meet a Danish-rooted company growing in number of international colleagues and a way of working where hybrid, digital, learning, and innovation are keywords. And we take pride in having fun

Some of the facts and a little piece of history

Ferrosan Medical Devices develops and produces a portfolio of medical devices used in surgical care. Our portfolio consists of various hemostatic products to minimize bleeding challenges in surgery and electromechanical medical devices to perform breast biopsies. We are an international company with products registered in more than 100 countries. Our products are marketed in collaboration with global medtech partners. New ideas are developed and matured from the first thought to finished implementation in production. And we manage the business with an uncompromising focus on quality based on current GMP requirements.

We are interested in your motivation

We will process the applications as we receive them, and the job ad will be prolonged until the right candidate has been found.

We look forward to hearing from you.

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