Automation Engineer

Do you have a craving to enable shopfloor value with scalable and sustainable automation technologies? Do you want to support production continuity and help ramp-up a brand-new facility to its full potential?
If you want to work in a true IT and Automation community covering all technology aspects, join the Aseptic Production (AP) Automation team in Aseptic Manufacturing (AM) Hillerød and become part of large local IT and Automation department and a global organization.
If that sounds like you, read on and apply today for a life-changing career.
The position
As an Automation Engineer at Novo Nordisk, you will:

• Support the factory's process control systems and batch execution software during failure investigation/resolution to establish corrective measures and optimisations.

• Design, implement, and document software and hardware changes in collaboration with process, compliance, quality, and close IT colleagues.

• Participate in the team's on-call duty roster.

You will be working in a pharmaceutical production facility in accordance with current quality and GMP (Good Manufacturing Practice) requirements, with ongoing production 24 hours, 7 days a week (24/7).
Qualifications
To be considered for this position, we expect you to have:

• At least a bachelor's degree in automation, engineering, or any other related field.

• Relevant work experience in manufacturing development and/or GMP production of medical devices, including process validation.

• Experience with Siemens PLC and HMI; IFIX SCADA; SQL; Visual Basics (VBA).

• Fluency in English, both written and spoken. Speaking Danish, or willingness to learn, is an asset.

On a personal level, you will thrive if you enjoy working closely with peers, not always knowing what the day will bring, and with a precise and tangible purpose. Your personality will help you establish good relations and support your ability to work across functions at all levels in our organisation.
About the department
The unit consists of approximately 80 colleagues dispersed across 7 different teams who together cover most aspects of operation, maintenance, and development of the site's IT and Automation architecture, hardware, software, infrastructure, and quality management.
The Aseptic Production (AP) Automation team currently consists of 15 highly skilled automation engineers. Our main responsibility is to apply a curious, problem-solving, and service mindset for the automation systems supporting the AP production equipment. Moreover, we play a vital role during process design and redesign through collaboration with the factory's product and process responsible in an Agile organisational design. We believe in openness, collaboration, continuous learning, and constantly looking for ways to improve our work through digital curiosity. We share challenges, take an interest in each other, and believe that good team relations create the best working environment, which is why we frequently meet up away from work to socialise.
Working at Novo Nordisk
Novo Nordisk is a leading global healthcare company with a 100-year legacy of driving change to defeat serious chronic diseases. Building on our strong legacy within diabetes, we are growing massively and expanding our commitment, reaching millions around the world and impacting more than 40 million patient lives daily. All of this has made us one of the 20 most valuable companies in the world by market cap. Our success relies on the joint potential and collaboration of our more than 63,000 employees around the world. We recognise the importance of the unique skills and perspectives our people bring to the table, and we work continuously to bring out the best in them. Working at Novo Nordisk, we're working toward something bigger than ourselves, and it's a collective effort. Join us! Together, we go further. Together, we're life changing.
Contact and Deadline
For further information please contact Morten Christensen on phone +45 3075 0872 or get to know us better by visiting www.novonordisk.com/careers. Apply by 30 September 2024.
We commit to an inclusive recruitment process and equality of opportunity for all our job applicants.
At Novo Nordisk we recognize that it is no longer good enough to aspire to be the best company in the world. We need to aspire to be the best company for the world and we know that this is only possible with talented employees with diverse perspectives, backgrounds and cultures. We are therefore committed to creating an inclusive culture that celebrates the diversity of our employees, the patients we serve and communities we operate in. Together, we're life changing.