Senior Project Manager within Facility & Utility, Kalundborg, Denmark

Novo Nordisk manufacturing is growing. Join us in exciting times, where we're ramping up our business. We are strengthening our position as an innovative and respected pioneer in biotech manufacturing. We are expanding to provide capacity for the production of Novo Nordisk's current and future oral and injectable products by establishing new and ground-breaking biotech facilities in Novo Nordisk Kalundborg. We embrace new technologies and we're building a future factory with a strong focus on digitalisation, automation and robotics.

About the position

As Senior Project Manager/Work Package Owner you will be responsible for one or more disciplines including:

-Building & Facility design
-MEP systems
-Black & Clean Utilities

As our SPM, you will have the unique opportunity to create a state-of-the-art pharmaceutical facility and be part of a highly skilled department, quickly evolving as the project progresses fast. You will be an important part of the PM group with the overall responsibility for all building and utility systems. Work will be done in close collaboration with the other WPO's and our engineering company. Furthermore, you will be interacting with other disciplines and QA on a daily basis. Your work package will develop over time to be able to design, execute design reviews, oversee construction, and participate in commissioning to ensure best-in-class solutions and quality level. After successful acceptance and verification testing, you and your team will ensure a smooth transition of all systems into operation.

The position offers great possibility for personal and professional development with a broad range of tasks and need to find creative and innovative solutions. Many people will be looking towards you for guidance and direction, you will be expected to already know quite a lot about your area and that you are ready to learn the rest. Most importantly, you will inspire colleagues and stakeholders, challenge when necessary, ensure efficient project processes and be that Project Manager you always wanted to work with yourself.

You will be working together with enthusiastic and skilled colleagues and your knowledge and skills will be highly appreciated. In return, we give you the opportunity to set your clear mark on our exciting new facility and help make a real difference for our patients.

Qualifications

To be successful in this role:

- have a hands-on approach to your tasks and are technically adept, willing to learn and motivated to work in a project department.
- You probably have a degree in engineering and at least five years of relevant experience, preferably in the pharmaceutical industry.
- You are great at both contributing to and managing complex technical projects and has proven experience within project management.
- You are fluent in English both oral and verbal, in addition Danish will be considered as an advantage.

As a person, you are quite outgoing, easy to reach and engage with numerous stakeholders. Your positive and proactive can-do attitude energises your colleagues and stakeholders, ensuring engagement and commitment wherever you go. You enjoy knowledge sharing, and your quality and solution focused mindset is a natural part of you. The structure you apply to tasks helps you prioritise even when things are moving fast. You appreciate the value of accurate and timely documentation as an essential safety and quality control parameter.

About the Department

We are in the process of designing and building an innovative and large-scale manufacturing facility for purification of innovative pharmaceutical proteins for treating patients with serious chronic deceases. The facility will be constructed at our site Kalundborg and the plant design will apply new data and highly automated next level manufacturing technology.

We are a new and fast-growing project team that all work to make the new facility a reality. Currently, we are around 50 engaged and motivated employees. Within the coming years, we will expand and onboard approximately 200 more. Maybe you will be one of them?

Contact

For further information about the position, please contact Jakob Rytter +45 3079 9468.

Deadline

Please apply no later than January 4, 2022. We will process applications as we receive them, so please do not hesitate to apply.

You do not need to attach a cover letter to your application, but please include a few sentences about your motivation to apply in your CV. To ensure an efficient and fair recruitment process, please refrain from adding a photo in your CV.

Read the vacancy here

https://www.novonordisk.com/content/nncorp/global/en/careers/find-a-job/job-ad.239992.en_GB.html

Join Novo Nordisk Manufacturing in Kalundborg in times of expansion

Join us from the very beginning of our future journey and make your mark on a newly established organisation that will be growing in the coming years. Do you want to work with dedicated and experienced biotech manufacturing professionals? Are you curious about the opportunity to establish a factory that bridges new and automated technologies with strong know-how and expertise in biotech manufacturing? Make the most of your talent and join our team, who are working out of both Copenhagen and Kalundborg.

Today, 3,200 employees of Novo Nordisk Kalundborg produce half of the world's insulin and a number of biopharmaceutical products. With more than 50 years of expertise in large-scale biotech manufacturing, we are today the world's largest insulin-producing facility. By joining Novo Nordisk Manufacturing in Kalundborg, we promise you a developing career, where you will be met with trust and responsibility by dedicated colleagues with diverse backgrounds in a successful company with a higher purpose and an inclusive environment. Together, we make a difference every day for more than 30 million people living with diabetes and other chronic diseases.

nterested in a life-changing career?

Read more about the opportunities at Novo Nordisk Kalundborg at https://novonordisk.com/kalundborg-careers