Cleaning and Environmental Monitoring Scientist

Are you ready to work in a pilot facility where we are innovating and leading the way in our field? Do you want to shape the strategy and development of cleaning processes in the production of solid dosages forms? Would you like to drive vital tasks to ensure simplification while maintaining product quality and patient safety in a dynamic work environment?

Then you might be our new Cleaning and Environmental Monitoring Scientist. Apply today for a life-changing career!

The Position

As a Cleaning and Environmental Monitoring Scientist, you will take up important tasks in driving the daily operations of the cleaning and environmental monitoring processes, ensuring that the processes are in control and equipment and facility is ready for production. 

Become part of shaping the future of cleaning processes by contributing to their development and optimization, while supporting strategic advancements in cleaning practices!

In this position, you will take on the responsibility of developing cutting-edge cleaning processes for innovative products and equipment, leveraging a deep understanding, Good Manufacturing Practice (GMP) principles, and a solution-oriented approach.

With cleaning as a cornerstone in ensuring patient safety and product quality, this role plays an essential part in delivering excellence and bringing quality to patients.

We offer an opportunity for extensive collaboration with highly skilled technicians and scientists across the department, as well as engagement with internal and external stakeholders.

Don’t miss this opportunity to become part of a relatively new department and team, allowing you to make a significant impact on our processes with the support of experienced colleagues!

Qualifications

The qualifications we value include having:
•    A master’s degree in natural science, chemical engineering, chemistry, microbiology, pharmaceutical design and engineering, biomedicine or similar field.
•    Interest and competences within cleaning, microbiology and/or cross-contamination.
•    Experience with cleaning or environmental monitoring processes in a manufacturing setting, which is considered a plus.
•    Full professional proficiency in written and spoken Danish and English.

As a person, you thrive in a dynamic, ever-evolving environment, eagerly absorbing new information and expanding skill set. Having amazing communication and collaboration skills, that enable you to collaborate with a wide array of stakeholders, ensure seamless progress while maintaining focus on overarching goals.

Being self-driven and dare to go to find an answer even when they do not seem to be obvious or even on a horizon, while keeping an open mind is a crucial part of this role.

In this team, pride and accountability are taken in delivering exceptional, high-quality results within set timeframes.

About the Department

The Oral Pilot Plant consists of over 190 dedicated employees divided into 8 teams. In the department, we deliver oral drug product for clinical, stability and development studies utilizing our GMP expertise to bridge development and commercial production. The department's tasks include optimization, upscaling, and technology transfer of production processes from Research and Development (R&D) to commercial production.  

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 Manager Kristine Boysen Pallesen via email at  KBNP@novonordisk.com.

Deadline 

20 April 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.