Job Description

Associate Process Engineer

Department: Active Pharmaceutical Ingredients Manufacturing

Location: Kalundborg, Denmark

Employment type: Temporary, one-year maternity cover

Your impact begins here

As an Associate Process Engineer, you will help maintain stable production while improving the processes and systems behind the manufacturing of active pharmaceutical ingredients. You will turn production data into practical insights, support colleagues when challenges arise and contribute to improvements in productivity and simplicity. The position is a temporary, one-year maternity cover.

What you’ll bring

You combine scientific knowledge with a structured approach to problem-solving. You can analyse complex information, communicate your conclusions clearly and collaborate with colleagues across different professional backgrounds.

Essential qualifications include:

• A bachelor’s or master’s degree in biotechnology, engineering, chemical engineering, pharmaceutical sciences or a related field.
• Knowledge of the scientific principles used in manufacturing active pharmaceutical ingredients.
• An analytical mindset and the ability to work systematically with complex data.
• Strong written and spoken English.
• The ability to explain complex information clearly and help colleagues understand the purpose behind decisions.
• A collaborative and proactive approach, with a willingness to share knowledge and contribute to the team.

Experience from pharmaceutical manufacturing or another highly regulated industry would be useful, but is not essential. Knowledge of fermentation, data analysis, process systems or large-scale production would also be an advantage. Written and spoken Danish is useful, but not required.

What you’ll do

In this role, you will:

• Support and monitor production processes to help maintain stable performance.
• Work closely with operators and technicians to understand and resolve process-related challenges.
• Apply systematic problem-solving methods when deviations or production issues occur.
• Analyse production data to identify correlations, potential causes and opportunities for greater process understanding.
• Develop and improve fermentation and recovery processes, process-monitoring systems and supporting workflows.
• Use data and cross-functional input to quantify deviations and recommend practical process improvements.

Who you’ll work with

You will join a team of approximately 15 process engineers and scientists in Kalundborg. The team supports production and process optimisation through advanced data analysis, process monitoring and close dialogue with key stakeholders.

You will work alongside operators, technicians, scientists and other production colleagues. Together, you will translate data and scientific understanding into recommendations that support reliable manufacturing and continuous improvement. Collaboration and knowledge-sharing are central to the way the team approaches production challenges.

For further information about the positions, please contact Senior Manager Jeanette Naur Olsbro at JTNK@novonordisk.com or Senior Manager Kasper Karlsen at KPKK@novonordisk.com.

What you can expect here

You can expect a role where your analysis and recommendations have a direct connection to daily production. You will have opportunities to strengthen your technical knowledge, learn from experienced colleagues and contribute ideas for improving processes and supporting systems.

The positions are based on-site in Kalundborg. Occasional home-working days may be arranged, although the work during the coming year is expected to be predominantly on-site.

Salary: For this role, the Annual Base Salary ranges from DKK 499,600–734,400, corresponding to the level of the position.

The placement within the salary range will be assessed during the recruitment process based on the candidate’s skills, competencies, knowledge and relevant experience.

Incentives and Benefits: The salary package may include short-term and/or long-term incentives as well as other employee benefits based on position level, location, functional area and relevant market benchmarks.

Learn more about our Reward Philosophy here.

Start now

Your impact begins today. If you are ready to use data, scientific knowledge and collaboration to strengthen pharmaceutical production, apply for the Associate Process Engineer role by 14 October 2026.

Please submit your CV in English or Danish. You do not need to attach a cover letter, but please include a few sentences in your CV explaining why you are applying. To support an efficient and fair recruitment process, please do not include a photo in your CV.

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