Environmental Supporter, API Production

You are sitting at your desk writing your monthly trend report on microbial data, when you receive a meeting invite for the next day. It is regarding a project in another team. They need your input on the potential impact on production environment. Just as you accept the invitation the phone rings. It is an operator from production. There has been an alarm on a pressure sensor in the classified area, so room classification might be affected. You hang up and go straight to production to meet the operator. Together you have a look at what activities are going on in the area. You ask curious questions about the circumstances of today’s work trying to better understand what caused the alarm. You inform all of production not to go into the affected room. Then you coordinate with the operator team to ensure immediate collection of relevant microbial samples from the room. You call the external cleaning company to come and clean the room. Coordinate again with the operators to subsequently clean the equipment and collect another round of samples. Then you allow production to continue. Someone has a concern and disagrees with you. You listen patiently, acknowledge the concern, and then take your time to explain why your actions are necessary. When everybody is assured and aligned on the plan your return to your desk. Later the same day, you open an incident report. Within a given deadline you will have to describe the incident, your investigation made together with the operators, evaluate on quality, consequences, and improvements. Do you see yourself in such a position? One day you work on focused routine reporting, participate in improvement projects while suddenly you find yourself dealing with unplanned incidents in production, where you need a curious approach, close interaction with many stakeholders, and to make decisions impacting the entire production. If so, apply for the position as Environmental Supporter to join the Novo Nordisk Biotech and Rare Diseases (BRD) production in Gentofte! The position As an Environmental Supporter in the Environment team, you will together with 10 immediate colleagues with technical and academic backgrounds, be key in ensuring the environment inside the production plant is complying with relevant classifications levels and requirements for clean production to reduce risk of contamination.
Responsibilities include:

Daily presence and support to the production within environmental monitoring, ventilation, WFI and more.

Ensuring cleaning and gowning in the production through collaboration with our external contractors.

Handling documentation such as trend reports, incident reports, change request and qualification reports.

Instruction and training of colleagues in hygiene and environmental behaviour.

Optimisation of the production environment, including driving and giving input to projects.

Process confirmation and optimisation.

You will be collaborating with colleagues across the entire production ensuring the quality level whilst focusing on improving work methods and efforts to avoid errors.
Qualifications Your experiences include:

Academic degree within natural sciences e. g., Microbiologist, Pharmacist, Engineer, Chemist or similar.

Experience/ knowledge within GMP as well as an interest in production hygiene and contamination control within the pharmaceutical industry. It is advantageous if you have experience within Environmental Monitoring from a highly regulated industry.

Experience in setting up systems/ working with excel is advantageous.

Knowledge with LEAN processes or process improvement is desirable.

Fluency in English and Danish verbal and written.

As a professional you have a positive, humble, and curious approach to colleagues and incidents, and you enjoy working in an environment that includes routine task as well as unforeseen challenges. You enjoy working in a team where you are helpful and contribute to a positive atmosphere.
About the Department Our department is a GMP-production which covers the entire value-chain from fermentation of product in a host cell, followed by product recovery, chromatographic purification, and finally freeze-dried product. The department is on a journey towards increased production capacity driven by an increasing demand from the market. Our aim is to achieve this through use of innovative solutions, optimisations and new production technologies, while maintaining a healthy and committed work environment with psychological safety for all employees.
Working at BRD Novo Nordisk
BRD is part of Novo Nordisk Product Supply, which is a global production network at the forefront of technology and quality production of pharmaceutical products. In BRD, we are not only supplying all Novo Nordisk products to people living with serious chronic diseases, but we also use our competences in biotech to support the growing efforts into completely new production platforms and therapy areas for Novo Nordisk.
We are more than 3000 dedicated colleagues working at six production sites in Denmark and the United States. Here we cover the entire production value chain where raw materials are cultivated, purified, formulated, filled, assembled in devices, packed, and distributed across the globe. As more and more people need our products, we support Novo Nordisk's initiatives in new therapy areas. Every day, we work to streamline and expand our capacity through process innovation, automation, and the introduction of new technology.
Contact
For further information, please contact Romana Maric (Associate Manager, Environment & Utility) at: +45 3077 6709
Deadline 15 October 2023 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.