Prototype Engineering Specialist (12 months cover position)

Coloplast; Humlebæk; On-site; DKK 600,000 - 750,000; Full time

Job summary

Coloplast in Humlebæk, Denmark seeks a Prototype Engineering Specialist for a 12-month cover position. You will coordinate prototype activities from early planning to final samples, build a single integrated prototype plan, and maintain traceability across manufacturing docs.

You connect engineers, manufacturing and project teams, ensuring clear status and risk management. A engineering degree and experience in product development are required; English fluency is essential in our international

Qualifications

• Bachelor's or Master's degree in engineering, life science, pharmaceutics or another relevant technical discipline.
• Experience coordinating technical activities in product development, manufacturing, engineering, or a similar environment.
• Ability to turn input from several disciplines into a structured plan people can execute.
• Thrive in a central role with multiple stakeholder interactions.
• Understand manufacturing flows and how product design, materials, processes, and documentation connect.
• Work confidently with requirements, dependencies, risks, traceability, and shifting priorities.
• Communicate clearly across functions and professional disciplines.
• Take a proactive, practical, accountable approach to commitments and deadlines.
• Are comfortable working in English in an international organization.

Responsibilities

• Coordinate complex prototype activities from early project planning through final samples the project needs.
• Establish and maintain project-level prototype traceability, including references to manufacturing documentation.
• Build and maintain an overview of prototype purpose, quantities, variants, maturity, timing, and manufacturing flow.
• Align prototype requesters with internal or external manufacturers.
• Challenge unclear, conflicting, or incomplete requirements before they cause delays.
• Coordinate dependencies across components, prototype versions, manufacturing processes, sites, and project activities.
• Keep prototype status, decisions, risks, and open actions visible to everyone who needs them.
• Spot planning, capacity, documentation, and delivery risks early, and work with the right people to fix them.
• Help improve processes, templates, and working methods for prototype management.

Skills

Project coordination

Prototype management

Stakeholder management

English proficiency

Education

Bachelor's or Master's degree in engineering

Job description

Prototype Engineering Specialist (12 months cover position)

Location: Humlebæk, DK

Job Family: Research & Development

Coordinate complex prototype activities that enable better medical devices.

At Coloplast, we develop products and services that make life easier for people with intimate healthcare needs. In this role, you help our development projects turn product concepts into prototypes: for design iterations, usability studies, clinical trials, and design verification.
You bring structure to technically complex work. You connect engineers, manufacturing specialists and project teams around one plan. Your job is to build the integrated overview, maintain appropriate traceability and make the complete prototype flow work across the relevant stages of product development

Make complex prototype flows work
You coordinate prototype activities in complex development projects. That can mean multiple prototype variants, several manufacturing steps or sites, shifting levels of design maturity, demanding traceability requirements, or a wide stakeholder group.
This is an engineering-based coordination role: you will not be expected to manufacture the prototypes yourself or replace the technical specialists who define the prototype needs and requirements. The technical specialists remain responsible for defining their prototype needs, while the manufacturing teams remain responsible for production execution and manufacturing documentation. You bring these contributions together into one coherent and executable prototype plan. You build plans, spot dependencies and missing information, keep things visible, and push unresolved issues to a decision.

Join a growing engineering capability
You'll join our Test Development Engineering team: Test Development Engineers and Prototype Engineering Specialists, supporting product-development projects across Coloplast.
In this role you’ll have a broad footprint across the whole organization. You'll work closely with Product Development Project Managers, Test Engineers, Mechanical Design Engineers, Clinical and Usability colleagues, Quality Assurance, manufacturing sites, and external partners. You'll also work with the other Prototype Engineering Specialists to build consistent, practical ways of managing prototype activities across the team.

Your key responsibilities are:

• Coordinate complex prototype activities from early project planning through the final samples the project needs.
• Establish and maintain appropriate project-level prototype traceability, including references to the relevant manufacturing documentation.
• Build and maintain one overview of prototype purpose, quantities, variants, maturity, timing, manufacturing flow.
• Align prototype requesters with internal or external manufacturers.
• Challenge unclear, conflicting, or incomplete requirements before they cause delays.
• Coordinate dependencies across components, prototype versions, manufacturing processes, sites, and project activities.
• Keep prototype status, decisions, risks, and open actions visible to everyone who needs them.
• Spot planning, capacity, documentation, and delivery risks early, and work with the right people to fix them.
• Help improve the processes, templates, and working methods for prototype management.

What you bring
Your engineering background lets you challenge weak assumptions, identify gaps, and bring in the right specialist at the right time. You need technical understanding to see how requirements, product variants, materials, manufacturing processes, documentation, and timelines affect each other.
Your real contribution is keeping the complexity manageable, so the team delivers.

We expect that you:

• Hold a Bachelor's or Master's degree in engineering, life science, pharmaceutics, or another relevant technical discipline.
• Have experience coordinating technical activities in product development, manufacturing, engineering, or a similar environment.
• Can turn input from several disciplines into a structured plan people can execute.
• Thrive in a central role, with multiple stakeholder interactions.
• Understand manufacturing flows and how product design, materials, processes, and documentation connect.
• Work confidently with requirements, dependencies, risks, traceability, and shifting priorities.
• Communicate clearly across functions and professional disciplines.
• Take a proactive, practical, accountable approach to commitments and deadlines.
• Are comfortable working in English in an international organization.

Experience in medical devices, life science, or another regulated environment is a plus. So is familiarity with prototype production, design verification, configuration management, quality systems, or coordination across multiple manufacturing sites.

Scott Jonas Hansen, Head of Test Development Engineering, [e-mail]

Pursuing an ambitious growth agenda, Coloplast develops and markets products and services that make life easier for people with intimate healthcare needs. Employing about 16.000 people and with products available in more than 143 countries, we are one of the world´s leading medical device companies. We are constantly growing our business and always looking for new ways to move forward – we explore, learn and look for new ways of doing things.

Coloplast is committed to being an inclusive organization, where people bring their differences to work each day, fulfil their potential and have a strong sense of belonging because – and not despite – of their differences. We therefore encourage all qualified candidates to apply regardless of gender, age, race, nationality, ethnicity, sexual orientation, religious belief or physical ability.

Coloplast Group - Holtedam 1 - Humlebaek - DK 3050 - Denmark