Lead Primary Packaging Engineer

Cari; Hillerød; Remote; DKK 570,000 - 838,000; Full time

Job summary

Novo Nordisk in Denmark is seeking an Advanced Product Development Engineer for Primary Packaging on a 12-month contract. You will own technical areas from ideation to launch, shaping packaging for pre-filled syringes and related devices within the PFS Development team.

You will collaborate across drug development, production and supply chain, ensuring regulatory alignment, design qualifications and on-time delivery while growing your expertise in packaging and technology in a global context.

Qualifications

• MSc or BSc in Engineering, Physics, Chemistry or another relevant natural science or technical field.
• Extensive experience in primary packaging for pharmaceutical products, or in medical device or combination product development.
• Experience with requirements and specifications, verification, traceability and risk management in a regulated medical device or pharma environment (GMP/GxP/ISO).
• Ability to independently own a technical area, from assessment and decision to documentation and implementation in the product team and stakeholder landscape.
• Good stakeholder management skills.
• Fluent written and spoken English.
• A creative mindset, pride in delivering on your milestones, and energy for working across functions in a dynamic environment.

Responsibilities

• Develop primary packaging systems for parenteral administration, such as syringes and vials, from ideation to drug product launch.
• Bring in new primary packaging solutions, including ones not previously used at Novo, or insource existing solutions from external suppliers.
• Document design requirements, safety risk management, mitigations and testing, so that Clinical Trial Applications can be submitted.
• Ensure the right design, material, technical performance, processability and supply chain for each packaging system.
• Support marketed products through system ownership and late-stage changes.
• Scout the market, meet suppliers, and coordinate your own workstream with stakeholders to deliver on time.

Skills

Packaging design

Pharma packaging

GMP/GxP/ISO

Requirements mgmt

Stakeholder mgmt

English fluent

Cross-functional

Education

MSc/BSc in Engineering/Physical/Chemical sciences

Job description

Novo Nordisk in Denmark is seeking an Advanced Product Development Engineer for Primary Packaging on a 12-month contract. You will own technical areas from ideation to launch, shaping packaging for pre-filled syringes and related devices within the PFS Development team.

You will collaborate across drug development, production and supply chain, ensuring regulatory alignment, design qualifications and on-time delivery while growing your expertise in packaging and technology in a global context.