Do you want to use your packaging design and development experience within a team that supports the entire range of Novo Nordisk’s secondary packaging solutions? Would you thrive working with both product maintenance projects and day-to-day urgent production support tasks? Are you motivated by collaborating with internal and external stakeholders in a truly global setting?

If yes, apply today as you could be the Advanced Design Engineer for Secondary Packaging we are looking for!

 

The position

We are seeking a Packaging Design Engineer with expertise in secondary packaging materials, focusing on paperboard, label substrates, and corrugated fiberboard, along with their manufacturing and printing technologies.

You will develop and optimize secondary packaging solutions aligned with our manufacturing capabilities, supply chain, and sustainability goals. Collaborating with cross-functional teams and external suppliers, you’ll evaluate material performance and optimize designs for manufacturability, sustainability, and cost-efficiency, while meeting technical and performance targets.

 

Key Responsibilities:

Expertise in materials like SBS, FBB, corrugated fiberboard, and label substrates, ensuring protection, sustainability, and regulatory compliance, with a deep understanding of material properties such as GSM, caliper, fiber composition, coatings, and their interactions with adhesives, inks, and coatings. Optimization of designs for offset, flexographic, and digital printing, ensuring high print quality, color consistency, and compatibility with various substrates for efficient and precise printing results. Design for efficient manufacturing processes, including die-cutting, folding, gluing, and label application, ensuring production efficiency, cost-effectiveness, and seamless integration into high-speed packaging lines. Development of precise structural designs using CAD software, focusing on material efficiency, manufacturability, and structural integrity to enhance product protection and reduce material waste. Collaboration with suppliers to evaluate material performance, implement cost-effective, high-quality solutions, and drive continuous improvements in packaging sustainability, recyclability, and regulatory adherence.

 

You can look forward to a position where your work has a high impact on the packaging of the products that reach our patients. The job will give you a great opportunity to work with innovative products on an international level and have a broad range of contacts including global production sites, sourcing & supply chain, R&D, Quality Assurance, regulatory affairs, affiliates, and more.

 

Qualifications

As a person, you are innovative, possess good interpersonal skills, a collaborative attitude, and the ability to impact the support of marketed products. You have a high degree of flexibility and enjoy when tasks are varied, and the priority of projects or tasks could change. You are good at keeping an overview of your tasks, are analytical and systematic, and possess excellent communication skills. 

To be considered for this position, we imagine you:

Hold a Master’s degree or equivalent within engineering or a relevant field Possess at least 5 years of experience working with secondary packaging in a highly regulated industry, such as medical devices, pharmaceutical, automotive, aerospace, or food industry Have a good knowledge and understanding of packaging materials and processes Have experience with technical drawing and construction as well as using computer-aided design software (CAD) Are fluent in English, both written and spoken

It would be considered as a plus if you are familiar with printing/converting of packaging materials.

 

About the department

You will be part of Sec Pack Product Maintenance, a team of dedicated and highly competent colleagues, and be working at the crossroads between Devices & Delivery Solutions (R&D), Quality, and Production.

The department is supporting the entire range of Novo Nordisk secondary packaging products, and the technical product knowledge is anchored here. The department is responsible for the secondary packaging of the marketed products. We own and maintain specifications and material requirements for Novo Nordisk secondary packaging.

 

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, please contact Manager Elina Fuhr at +45 30754237.

 

Deadline

26 February 2025.

 

Please note that applications will be reviewed continuously, and interviews will be planned as soon as a suitable candidate is identified.

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 in your 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.