Global Equipment Standard Owner for Packaging

Are you ready to support and help shape the future of manufacturing at Novo Nordisk? Are you motivated by standardization and scaling, and eager to drive change alongside your team and the production sites across the globe? 
Then this is a unique opportunity to join a team of highly skilled colleagues, dedicated to upholding  standards and transforming how we manufacture products worldwide. Apply today! 

The position
As our new Global Equipment Standard Owner for Packaging, you will have the responsibility and ownership of the new fleet of Packaging lines. Your focus will be on maintaining the standardized equipment through changes and challenges in line with the global standards and asset management strategy for global FP. Furthermore, you will be responsible for monitoring and improving performance of the platform and assessing changes to the standard fleet. 
You will become part of our new Standard Process Group, responsible for owning and maintaining global standards for Packaging Process. In this role, you will manage global equipment standard assets and associated documentation. This gives you a key opportunity to help establish a robust set of standards and drive performance across our future assembly line fleet. 

Your key responsibilities will be:

• Ensure the lines are kept standard across all sites, through management and oversight for all future changes
• Monitoring performance across several KPIs to ensure optimal performance, including ensuring any local knowledge and optimizations are shared and implemented globally
• Handling changes in a standard way and maintaining the standardization across Packaging process and reliability program for all engineering assets/platforms, including the replacement and overall utilization strategy
• Transforming the standardization strategy into operation on the equipment part, i.e. setting up a structure for retrofitting changes in the fleet perspective

You will be part of shaping the structure of working with standards and establishing the network with key stakeholders, i.e. the production sites, technical network in functions, project organization creating the standards and maintenance organization. 

You will also be shaping global and local resources coordination approach, following changes to the equipment, in partnership with the sites. Together, we will be applying reliability engineering principles to achieve an increase in uptime and process capability across the network.
 
The lines will be located at both existing FP sites, with existing experience and knowledge of earlier generation lines but also at our new sites. Currently our sites are located in France, China, USA and Denmark., therefore, some travel is to be expected along with supporting sites in the office hours for the given site. There is also the opportunity to be working from one of the local sites in the countries, mentioned above.
 
Qualifications
The ideal candidate for this position should have the following qualifications:

• An academic degree in engineering or a related technical field
• Understanding of industrial equipment in the pharma industry or similar and experience within Packaging lines and process
• Technical field experience in a global context, including international assignments
• Profound project management knowledge and experience being part of global teams
• Broad hands-on experience in engineering with a track record in driving equipment improvements
• Having cLEAN and/or Six Sigma background is a plus
• Fluency in English

 
On a personal level, you have a high level of integrity, are open-minded and curious, and therefore constantly on the lookout for how to improve processes. You are a team player, a great collaborator, and you utilize your relationships with your stakeholders to achieve success in your projects and tasks. You have a strong personal drive, are ambitious, not afraid to challenge the status quo in a risk-adverse industry, and act as a problem-solver. You are able to drive projects from idea conception all the way through to effectiveness checks. You can communicate complex technical issues in a clear manner, and you have the ability to work within a global context on manufacturing sites and in global headquarters.
 
About the Department
You will join FPMSAT Engineering, a global team within Finished Product Development & Manufacturing (FPDM) responsible for supporting and optimizing assembly and packaging processes across Novo Nordisk’s production network. Our mission is to drive standardization, promote best practices, and enhance operational excellence to ensure seamless production of life-saving products for patients worldwide.
At FPMSAT Engineering, we work collaboratively to implement new technologies, elevate process standards, and drive continuous improvement across our global sites. This is an exciting opportunity to play a key role in shaping a newly established function and making a lasting impact on our global operations. 

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, you are welcome to contact Mikala Stormly (Director) at msry@novonordisk.com or +45 30753765.
 
Deadline
3 August 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 and submit your CV in English. 

We commit to an inclusive recruitment process and equality of opportunity for all our job applicants. 

We’re not your typical healthcare company. In a modern world of quick fixes, we focus on solutions to defeat serious chronic diseases and promote long-term health. Our unordinary mindset is at the heart of everything we do. We seek out new ideas and put people first as we push the boundaries of science, make healthcare more accessible, and treat, prevent, and even cure diseases that affect millions of lives. Because it takes an unordinary approach to drive real, lasting change in health.