Environmental Monitoring Scientist

Are you passionate about engineering operations and environmental monitoring? Do you want to be part of a team that produces half of the world’s insulin?

Join us as an Environmental Monitoring Scientist at Novo Nordisk in Kalundborg and make a difference every day. Read more and apply today for a life-changing career!

The Position

As an Environmental Monitoring Scientist, you will join the team responsible for overseeing Active Pharmaceutical Ingredient (API) processes Environmental Monitoring.

You will closely communicate with colleagues inside the department and across departments to secure good collaboration and timely delivery of all tasks. 

The main tasks will be to:
•    Be responsible for environmental monitoring and ensure system design review, supplier selection, commissioning and validation. 
•    Support investment project across project phases: design development, construction, verification, and validation according to roles and responsibilities assigned according to project plans. 
•    Verify equipment and process design, including documentation.
•    Pro-actively work towards error-free, continuous, and closed processes.
•    Ensure stakeholders’ interests are represented throughout the project.

Qualifications

To succeed in this role, you have:
•    A bachelor’s or master’s degree in chemistry, microbiology, nano technology, biotechnology, pharmaceutical process engineering, or similar technical or scientific field.
•    Experience in microbiology, environmental monitoring, Clean Room design in manufacturing environments and with utility design, installation, qualification and working with high quality requirements and regulations.
•    Experience with relevant Good Manufacturing Practice (GMP) regulations, ideally API manufacturing from either pharmaceutical, biotechnology or food industry.
•    A few years of experience in a cGMP environment, which is considered a plus.
•    Full professional proficiency in English, proficiency in Danish is nice to have.
 
As a person, you enjoy close teamwork, can ride a storm off and are a dedicated motivator of others. You thrive in a multicultural environment that demands independence to make critical decisions. 

Being able to simplify complicated things is crucial in this role. Having a strong will to succeed and a desire to set very clear direction are foundations we like to build on this team.

About the Department

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

You will be joining PS API Expansions

The area is anchored in Novo Nordisk Product Supply, Quality & IT, which employs approximately 35,000 of Novo Nordisk’s 64,000 employees globally.  

PS API Expansions is a growing area with the responsibility to design, plan and build all major API Expansions projects across Novo Nordisk to serve the needs of millions of patients.

We build and design our future API facilities as multi-product facilities with the flexibility to accommodate future processes and display a state-of-the-art technology and working environment. We focus on delivering the highest quality to patients worldwide in an efficient and environmentally sustainable way. 

We are setting the standards for the future, designing facilities we will still be proud of many decades from now. We drive world-class execution of capacity projects, and together we build the future of Novo Nordisk.

Working at Novo Nordisk

We are a proud life-science company, and life is our reason to exist. We’re inspired by life in all its forms and shapes, ups and downs, opportunities and challenges. For employees at Novo Nordisk, life means many things – from the building blocks of life that form the basis of ground-breaking scientific research, to our rich personal lives that motivate and energise us to perform our best at work. Ultimately, life is why we’re all here - to ensure that people can lead a life independent of chronic disease.

Contact 

For further information, please contact Associate Manager for Facility HVAC & Cleanroom Pernille Ravnsbæk at +45 30792848.

Deadline 

23 February 2025.

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

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.