Product Development Engineer Specialist

Novo Nordisk; Hillerød; On-site; DKK 743,000 - 1,092,000; Full time

Job summary

Novo Nordisk in Hillerød, Denmark seeks a Product Development Engineer Specialist to blend primary packaging and device engineering for reliable medicines.

You will lead design controls, risk management, and lifecycle activities, guiding decisions across teams and ensuring traceability. Fluent English is required; experience with injection devices or pre-filled syringes is preferred.

Qualifications

• Fluent English, written and spoken.
• Extensive experience in medical device or regulated product development.
• Practical command of the design-control lifecycle.
• Hands-on product risk management across development and manufacturing.
• Ability to make risk-based technical trade-offs.

Responsibilities

• Be the technical link between primary packaging and device engineering for new products and lifecycle management.
• Drive design controls and risk management across development and post-launch changes.
• Guide verification and validation strategy with test engineers.
• Balance technical, quality, patient and manufacturing considerations in trade-offs.
• Act as a technical role model and mentor across teams.
• Share knowledge and coach colleagues across experience levels.

Skills

Fluent English

Medical device development

Design controls

Risk management

Technical leadership

Trade-off decisions

Education

Degree in engineering or science

Job description

Department: Drug Delivery Innovation, Global Manufacturing & Supply

Location: Hillerød, Denmark

Your impact begins here

As Product Development Engineer Specialist, you will shape how primary packaging and device engineering come together to create reliable products for people who depend on them. Using design controls, risk management and systems thinking, you will guide technical decisions on new products and on products already on the market. This is your chance to build shared ways of working that strengthen every decision and support people living with serious chronic diseases.

What You’ll Bring

• A degree in engineering or science.
• Fluent English, written and spoken.
• Extensive experience in medical device or other regulated product development, with direct experience of injection devices and/or pre-filled syringes.
• Practical command of the design-control lifecycle: requirements, design inputs and outputs, traceability, verification and validation, design reviews, transfer and design changes.
• Hands-on product risk management experience across development, manufacturing, transportation and use.
• The ability to make risk-based technical trade-offs when design, quality, patient, manufacturing and product considerations need to be balanced.
• Natural technical leadership: you build trust, facilitate open discussion and guide colleagues from different disciplines towards well-founded decisions.

Useful, But Not Essential

• Formal systems engineering experience or training, and a track record of structuring complex work across interfaces and dependencies.
• Deep primary packaging knowledge. If you come from device development, curiosity and the ability to learn this area are what count.
• Experience working with regulatory authorities or contributing to technical sections of regulatory submissions.

What You’ll Do

You will be the technical link between primary packaging and device engineering, covering both new product development and lifecycle management of marketed products.

• Connect primary packaging and device perspectives in technical decisions, so colleagues understand each other’s needs, constraints and interfaces.
• Drive design controls and risk management across development and post-launch changes, keeping requirements, traceability and design rationale complete and clear.
• Guide verification and validation strategy: decide what needs to be tested and why, working with the test engineers who carry out the testing.
• Take a systems view of the whole product, balancing technical, quality, patient and manufacturing considerations when making trade-offs.
• Act as a technical role model who builds sustainable ways of working across teams, beyond formal processes and handovers.
• Share knowledge and coach colleagues, from recent graduates to engineers with 25+ years at Novo.

Who You’ll Work With

You will join Drug Delivery Innovation as an additional specialist within the Pre-filled Syringe Team. Day to day, you will work across the primary packaging and device teams, and with the wider area covering development projects with pre-filled syringes and the devices built around them.

Your colleagues are mostly engineers and scientists, about half Danish and half international, with experience from new graduate to 25+ years. You will also collaborate with Regulatory Affairs, Quality Assurance, Medical & Science and Product Supply, and with suppliers, as the work requires.

In Global Manufacturing & Supply, colleagues work across the value chain from drug and device development to marketed Novo products. This role sits in that chain and helps colleagues win together.

What You Can Expect Here

You will be trusted to own your area, make your voice heard and perform at your best. You will build new skills by working across engineering disciplines and the product lifecycle, and through relevant learning offerings, conferences and training. You will be part of a team that expects high standards, honest feedback and clear decisions.

Salary:

For this role, the Annual Base Salary ranges from 742,600 to 1,091,600 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.

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 relevant market benchmarks.

Learn more about our Reward Philosophy here.

Start now

Your impact begins today. If you are ready to bring primary packaging and device engineering together and shape how our products are developed and maintained, apply for the Product Development Engineer Specialist role by 19 November 2026. Please submit your CV in English. Applications are reviewed on an ongoing basis, so we encourage you to apply as soon as possible.

For further information, please contact Line Brøgger at [e-mail] or Frederik Yding Tingleff at [e-mail].

Lasting Health Starts Now.

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