Senior Facility Professional

Are you passionate about maintaining and improving facilities to ensure seamless operations? Do you have a proactive mindset and a knack for energy-saving initiatives? If you have extensive experience in facility management and are ready to make a difference, we invite you to join our team as a Senior Facility Professional at Novo Nordisk in Koriyama, Fukushima. Read on and apply today for a life-changing career.

About the department
Novo Nordisk is a global healthcare company with over 100 years of innovation in diabetes care. This heritage has equipped us to help people defeat obesity, haemophilia, growth disorders, and other serious chronic diseases. Headquartered in Denmark, Novo Nordisk employs over 77,000 people in 80 offices and markets our products in more than 170 countries.

You will be part of the Production Engineering and Facilities team at our Koriyama Factory in Fukushima. Our mission is to ensure that facility, building, and Material Handling Systems are always ready to support production. The department is dedicated to stabilising and improving these systems, implementing energy-saving activities, and collaborating closely with stakeholders within the Koriyama plant and NNAS. We also oversee the installation and validation of air conditioning equipment in external warehouses. The atmosphere is dynamic, collaborative, and focused on continuous improvement to support our production goals.

The position
As a Senior Facility Professional, you will play a critical role in ensuring that our facilities, buildings, and material handling systems (MHS) are always ready to support production. Your key responsibilities will include:

• Inspect buildings, facilities, and material handling systems, focusing on energy-efficient part replacements.
• Collaborate with external suppliers and vendors to resolve technical issues and provide on-site support as needed.
• Oversee regular maintenance activities (daily, monthly, quarterly) according to planned schedules.
• Procure and manage goods and repair/maintenance services from external vendors.
• Prepare and update utility system validation documentation for new or modified processes, ensuring compliance with local and global procedures.

Qualifications

• University graduate, preferably with a degree in engineering or a related field.
• More than 10 years of experience in facility-related work.
• Proficient in both English and Japanese; English conversation skills required.
• Strong teamwork and communication abilities, with a focus on ownership and leadership.
• Proactive, adaptable to change, self-motivated, and a self-starter, with a mindset oriented towards continuous improvement (kaizen) and innovation.

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 energize 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
Upload your CV to our online career page (click on Apply and follow the instructions).

Deadline
Until the completion of recruitment.
Applications will be screened on an ongoing basis, so you are encouraged to apply as soon as possible.

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.

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