Associate Manager Maintenance

Are you ready to take on a challenge - maybe you thrive in a dynamic environment with many tasks and deliverables. You can grasp complex processes, systems and problems and you have the leadership skills to motivate, develop and set a clear direction for your team. You feel inspired by an ambitious strategy using tools like cLEAN, digitalization and agile project execution. Altogether, you are ready to take the next step in your life-changing career, where we can make a difference together. We look forward to welcoming you and give you the opportunities you are looking for.

About the job

You will be part of a management team, and you will primarily manage technicians (marine engineers) and craftsmen. Together, we are proud of our quality mindset, our ambitious results, and the work environment we support and maintain in our teams.

The position demands a lot of change management, and we need you to inspire and facilitate that journey, both towards employees, in your management group and towards management. Leading by example and showing us how results can be made in other, more effective ways, with new approaches and technology, is essential.

Your first focuses will be to set a direction for Life Cycle Management of equipment, projects - ensuring system availability - and structures for day-to-day maintenance - ensuring compliance in every aspect.

Down the road, you will have strengthened the collaborative setup for maintenance, providing frameworks that we may have never seen before, but that considers all the modern options for knowledge sharing, method development, process modelling and so forth. To do this, you will have to draw on other teams and departments, while ensuring that daily operations are never compromised in our pursuit of future solutions. We expect you to contribute to the management team in a way that maintains a strong collaborative spirit and the effectiveness necessary to deliver on our mutual ambitions.

Qualifications

To succeed in this role, we imagine you bring:

• A degree in engineering – mechanical, marine, or electrical – or a similar technical background.
• Solid experience in managing people, processes, and planning within a production environment, ideally a regulated one.
• A strong sense of structure and organization, with the ability to plan effectively and make decisions based on data and deep analysis.
• Excellent communication skills and the ability to build trust and collaboration across diverse teams and departments.
• A passion for continuous improvement – both for yourself and the people you lead.
• An interest in modern leadership principles such as The 5 Behaviours and The Ideal Team Player, and a desire to grow in a supportive, ambitious setting.
• Proficiency in English, both spoken and written, as we work in an international environment.

About the department

API Manufacturing 1 (M1) is the worlds’ largest insulin production facility. Here we produce the active ingredient of many of Novo Nordisk’ products, that may change the market completely.

In M1 Maintenance we ensure maintenance of equipment, utilities equipment such as HVAC, cooling, steam and compressed air. We do technical support, development projects, facility management of our building and secure a safe work environment through our work permit office.
Furthermore, our department owns a team responsible for the technical support, development projects and daily hands-on support of the process equipment. Here, talented marine engineers and craftsmen operate, trouble trace, optimize and expand, to keep up with an increasing demand. For this team, we are looking for the right manager that can help bring the team and its tasks to the next level.
 

About Novo Nordisk Kalundborg

Become a part of Novo Nordisk Manufacturing in Kalundborg and get a developing career among the most talented people in a successful company. Together, we make a real difference every day for more than 30 million people living with diabetes and other chronic diseases.  We have 50 years of expertise in biotechnological production at Novo Nordisk in Kalundborg. Generations of employees have developed their professional qualifications, personal skills and careers at Novo Nordisk and have helped develop the production facility to become the largest insulin-producing facility in the world.   Today, our 3,000 employees produce half of the world’s insulin and several biopharmaceutical products.  

You will soon sense why Novo Nordisk Kalundborg is a highly unique place and why we are passionate about working here. You will be met with trust and responsibility by welcoming and dedicated colleagues. Novo Nordisk Kalundborg is a workplace where involvement and development are in focus.

Working at Novo Nordisk

At Novo Nordisk, we don’t wait for change. We drive it. We’re a dynamic company in an even more dynamic industry, and we know that what got us to where we are today is not necessarily what will make us successful in the future. We embrace the spirit of experimentation, striving for excellence without fixating on perfection. We never shy away from opportunities to develop, we seize them. From research and development, through to manufacturing, marketing and sales – we’re all working to move the needle on patient care.

Contact

To know more about the position, please reach out to Morten Stennicke Løwe on + 4530777854

Deadline

28 April 2025

Applications will be reviewed on an ongoing basis, so you are encouraged to apply as soon as possible. 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.
 

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.