Are you passionate about digitalization in manufacturing?

Join us on a high-profile greenfield project where you’ll help shape a brand-new department and play a key role in delivering real-time quality control and assurance through cutting-edge digital solutions.

Your new role
At API - Active Pharmaceutical Ingredient Expansions we’re expanding our production facilities in Hillerød, Denmark, to support our growing product pipeline.

We’re looking for an Automation Engineer to join our project team, where you’ll help develop and maintain software and interfaces for our future API production setup—working alongside experienced engineers in a dynamic and collaborative environment.

Your key responsibilities will include:

•    Developing and reviewing interface agreements for equipment software.
•    Supporting data mapping to ensure seamless integration with central IT systems.
•    Maintaining and updating equipment software and interfaces.
•    Understanding API production processes to ensure equipment uptime and reliability.
•    Contributing to the development of a data-driven architecture in close collaboration with data architects and process owners.
•    Participating in the project implementation team to develop equipment software inter-faces.

Your new department

You’ll be part of the API Denmark Area, located across Gentofte, Hillerød, and Kalundborg. Here, around 500 dedicated colleagues manufacture the active ingredients for all our life-saving biotech products. Our production involves complex chemical and biotechnological pro-cesses—including cultivation, recovery, purification, and freeze-drying—requiring high levels of expertise and engagement.
While we continue full-speed production in existing facilities, we’re also building and ramping up new state-of-the-art sites to meet future demand. We’re committed to delivering the high-est quality APIs in compliance with GMP and continuously improving our processes and ways of working.

Your skills & qualifications

We’re looking for a new Automation Engineer who will enjoy working in a high-paced, dynamic environment. You’ll bring with you, ideally:

•    Academic degree background in IT or Automation Engineering. You may be a recent graduate with a strong interest in production PCS systems and a readiness to learn, or you may bring hands-on experience in operating, maintaining, and modifying IT/PLC/PCS systems.
•    3-5+ years' experience working with validation and qualification processes.
•    Knowledge of PLC systems and industrial communication protocols and/or familiarity with Siemens PLC solutions and interfaces.
•    Experience working in a complex GMP-regulated environment.
•    Excellent communication skills in English, both written and spoken.

You’re a team player who enjoys learning and sharing knowledge. You’re motivated by achiev-ing results together and are eager to understand how IT and automation can enhance pro-duction processes.

Working at Novo Nordisk

Every day we seek the solutions that defeat serious chronic diseases. To do this, we approach our work with an unconventional spirit, a rare determination and a constant curiosity. For over 100 years this unordinary mindset has seen us build a company unlike any other. One where a collective passion for our purpose, mutual respect and a willingness to go beyond what we know delivers extraordinary results.

What we offer
There is, of course, more on offer here than the uniqueness of our culture and the extraordi-nary results we produce. Being part of a global healthcare company means opportunities to learn and develop are all around us, while our benefits are designed with your career and life stage in mind.

More information
You are welcome to contact Manager for Automation; Patrick Fuglsang on +45 30 77 60 12 if you have questions about the role.

Deadline
12 August 2025. (Applications are reviewed on an ongoing basis).

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.