Process Scientist

Novo Nordisk A/S; Kalundborg; Remote; DKK 570,000 - 838,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Salary incentives

Job summary

Novo Nordisk A/S in Kalundborg is seeking a Process Scientist/Engineer to own the equipment lifecycle and help shape Laboratory Service. You will ensure qualification, calibration and documentation align with GMP, while supporting daily operations and supplier SLAs.

You will collaborate across laboratories and sites, drive automation initiatives, and share best practices to strengthen equipment standards and capabilities.

Qualifications

• Bachelor’s or Master’s degree in natural sciences, engineering, pharmacology or related field.
• Experience with laboratory equipment, such as HPLC/UPLC, including qualification, calibration and maintenance.
• Experience with QMS work (deviations, change requests and documentation).
• Interest in automation, digitalisation and new technologies.
• Fluent English, written and spoken.
• Strong communication and cross-team collaboration.

Responsibilities

• Take professional responsibility for the equipment lifecycle, from idea and purchase to maintenance, replacement and retirement.
• Secure qualification, calibration, QMS support and up-to-date equipment documentation in line with GMP requirements.
• Support the laboratories proactively, so equipment and daily operations deliver the right output in the right quality.
• Handle vendor dialogue and coordinate service agreements (SLAs) together with the team.
• Give input to capacity planning, projects and the future equipment strategy.
• Lead and take part in cross-functional initiatives that optimise and automate existing processes and equipment.
• Share knowledge and best practices across laboratories, sites and teams, and challenge existing processes in a respectful and constructive way.

Skills

Independence

Ownership

Communication

English fluency

Education

Bachelor's or Master's in Sciences

Tools

HPLC/UPLC

Job description

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As Process Scientist/Engineer, you will be the go-to person for laboratory equipment, processes and technical know-how in our QC laboratories in Kalundborg. You will keep equipment reliable and compliant, and help shape Laboratory Service, a newly established unit with clear owner-ship of shared laboratory support. When instruments perform as they should, your colleagues can test with confidence, supporting the production of insulin and GLP-1 for people living with diabetes and obesity.

What you’ll bring

You work independently, take ownership and enjoy making laboratory practice better, one prac-tical improvement at a time.

• A bachelor’s or master’s degree in natural sciences, engineering, pharmacology or a related field – or equivalent experience as a laboratory technician with strong equipment compe-tence.
• Experience with laboratory equipment, such as HPLC/UPLC or other analytical instruments, including qualification, calibration and maintenance.
• Experience with QMS work, such as deviations, change requests and documentation.
• An interest in automation, digitalisation and new technologies.
• Fluent English, written and spoken.
• A curious, can-do mindset, a sharp eye for practical improvements, and the ability to stay calm and keep the overview when priorities change.
• Strong communication skills and a natural ability to build relationships across teams and de-partments.

Useful, but not essential:

• Experience in a GMP-regulated environment.
• Experience with Lean/cLEAN and project work.
• Danish language skills. Much of our collaboration happens in Danish, so good communica-tion in both languages is an advantage.

What you’ll do

• Take professional responsibility for the equipment lifecycle, from idea and purchase to maintenance, replacement and retirement.
• Secure qualification, calibration, QMS support and up-to-date equipment documentation in line with GMP requirements.
• Support the laboratories proactively, so equipment and daily operations deliver the right output in the right quality.
• Handle vendor dialogue and coordinate service agreements (SLAs) together with the team.
• Give input to capacity planning, projects and the future equipment strategy.
• Lead and take part in cross-functional initiatives that optimise and automate existing pro-cesses and equipment.
• Share knowledge and best practices across laboratories, sites and teams, and challenge ex-isting processes in a respectful and constructive way.

Who you’ll work with

You will join the Laboratory Service team in Kalundborg, part of Global Quality Control and an-chored in QC Business Operations. The team brings together shared laboratory support activi-ties that previously sat across different QC units. The aim is clear ownership of laboratory equip-ment, infrastructure and shared services, and stronger standardisation, flexibility and use of our capabilities across laboratories. The first priority is to keep operations running and support strategic initiatives for equipment and facilities.

Your colleagues are professionals and laboratory technicians who work close to the equipment, so you stay in close contact with the laboratory users who rely on it every day. You will also work with vendors and with colleagues across laboratories, sites and teams. Your manager is Helle Bülow Mindegaard Christensen.

Kalundborg is a city within the city: about 3,000 colleagues across several factories, one hour’s drive from Copenhagen. Here we produce insulin and GLP-1 and work at the forefront of tech-nology, systems, methods and processes. In Enterprise IT & Quality, colleagues work across the Novo value chain, stay close to stakeholders and help deliver trusted technology, high quality and responsible ways of working.

What you can expect here

You will be trusted to take ownership in a dynamic workday where priorities change and results come from working things out together. You will build new skills through project work, automa-tion and digital initiatives, and by sharing practice across sites. You will have the chance to speak up, contribute your expertise and help shape how a new unit works.

Not every ambition comes true, but if you want to become a specialist, a project lead or a man-ager one day, this role can be your way there.

Incentives and Benefits

The salary package may include short-term and/or long-term incentives as well as other employee benefits based on position level, location, functional area and rele-vant market benchmarks. Learn more about our Reward Philosophy here.

Salary: For this role, the Annual Base Salary ranges from 570,200.00 to 838,100.00 DKK, corresponding to the level of the position.

The placement within the salary range will be assessed during the recruitment process based on the candidate’s skills, competencies, knowledge, and relevant experience.

To learn more about the role, please contact Manager Helle Bülow Mindegaard Christensen at [e-mail]. You can also get to know us better at www.novonordisk.com/careers .

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