Novo Nordisk
Hillerød, Denmark
Our growth is your opportunity
Being part of Novo Nordisk Research & Development means working at one of the world's largest and most successful biopharmaceutical companies.
Our R&D organisation is vital to Novo Nordisk's continued growth and we always welcome talented people who would like to grow with us.
We are looking for an experienced electronic R&D engineer that can help us develop state of the art injection devices that will help improve the lives of millions of patients. In return, we offer a challenging job within a highly inspiring environment.
Device Research & Development has a long and outstanding track-record of developing the best, most innovative and widely-used injection devices in the world. In the development of medical devices, we ensure that user insight and innovation go hand in hand with a strong quality mind-set. We are organised in a project centric organisation in addition to a large competency centre of experts, providing state-of-the-art knowledge across projects.
About the department
We are part of Device Research & Innovation that manages the early phases of innovation in Device R&D, and we are located in Hillerød. We are a team of 11 creative and strongly committed employees, including mechanical and electronic engineers, with a shared passion for developing state of the art durable injection devices. You will be 1 of 2 electronic engineers in the department which means that your colleagues will be looking for your help, therefore the position requires that you build relations with other experts in the organisations. It is our responsibility to ensure that Novo Nordisk is ready with new and attractive durable injection devices, through a varying number of early stage innovations projects.
The job
You primary task will be to contribute to the conceptual design of our future durable devices, both on creating new innovative solutions and reliability. This includes design of embedded low power hardware with high focus on mechatronics. As part of this you will be responsible for specifying hardware requirements, implementing the solutions in prototypes and testing these and ensuring that they comply with requirements from both Novo Nordisk and the regulatory authorities. A big part of your job will be to coordinate hardware and mechatronics development activities with our external development partners. This requires high degree of collaboration, both with your colleagues in the department and in other parts of the organisation, as well as with our external partners.
Qualifications
You hold a degree within electronics engineering or similar. In addition, you have at least 5 years’ experience with integrating electronics into consumer and/or medical devices – or that provides you experience with products that are highly reliable, yet made for large scale production with a cost focus. Your experience should also include low power design for embedded solutions and embedded hardware design. You are expected to have a creative mind-set and a high personal drive. This role requires good communication and interpersonal skills as you will be working in a team with colleagues and external partners with different educational background and nationality. This also requires that you are proficient in English. We have nurtured a dynamic environment where ambitious teams and creative individuals strive to perfect medical devices. We are constantly improving by challenging each other and testing new ideas to fuel our success. You will be part of a highly dedicated team, in which everyone shares the mutual aspiration to further improve the lives of millions of people requiring chronic care.
Device R&D has a strong record for on-boarding new international employees and we welcome international applicants, willing to relocate to Denmark.
To read more about Device R&D, please use this link: www.novonordisk.com/Device-RD.
At Novo Nordisk, your skills, dedication and ambition help us change lives for the better. In exchange, we offer you an opportunity to work with extraordinary talent and benefit from a range of possibilities for professional and personal development.
Contact
For further information, please contact Jacob Møllebro at +45 3079 4576.
Deadline
4 January 2015.