Senior Health & Safety Partner

   

 

Are you passionate about health and safety (HS) with focus on crisis response, business resilience, security, emergency response management? Are you motivated by partnering with stakeholders across the entire value chain and implementing pragmatic solutions? And are you looking for an opportunity to use and further develop your competences to influence and support our journey towards zero accidents? Then here is a great opportunity.

 

Apply today for the position as our Health & Safety Partner in the newly established Health & Safety team in Køge. Join us!

 

The position

As a Health and Safety Manager, you'll collaborate across the organization to drive impactful results, support strategic initiatives, and enhance our Health & Safety (H&S) strategies. Your main responsibilities will be to:

 

• Set directions and deliver impactful results, providing advice and support to management on H&S decisions and initiatives, focusing on health & safety, risk, security, and resilience.
• Support NNPR facilities in achieving long-term H&S goals, including business resilience, crisis and emergency management, and security safety management.
• Manage H&S processes, identify and implement better practices, and share knowledge across NNPR facilities, acting hands-on during projects related to New Product Entry and Facility Management.
• Coordinate H&S initiatives, audit activities, and communication with authorities, supporting construction and shutdown processes, and driving continuous communication and training across NNPR.

You will also participation and represent NNPR in relevant national, regional and global Novo Nordisk networks relating to crisis response, emergency and business resilience.

 

Qualifications

To succeed in this role, we imagine that you have:

• Several years of experience with relevant H&S work ideally from a pharmaceutical/biopharmaceutical production or laboratory environment.
• Fluency in oral and written Danish and English.
• A strong focus on crisis response, business resilience, security and emergency response management, fire related building requirements.
• Good foundation in the occupational work environment area, as well as experience with legislative requirements, ISO 45001 standard, and QEHS audits/inspections.
• Ability to negotiate the right H&S solutions while balancing H&S response with other business needs, and an interest in both strategic and hands-on tasks.

As a person, you will thrive in this role if you appreciate a diverse workday with Go-Look-See, hands-on tasks, data crunching, reporting and project group participation with key deliveries. You have high personal drive and a positive attitude enabling you to pursue key focus areas and achieve results. You are good at communication and training, and you can communicate complex subjects in a simple way. You have a qualitative and analytical mindset with a proactive, structured, and systematic approach to tasks. Your colleagues will see you as highly motivated, flexible, and friendly, but also persistent and able to get things done.

 

About the department

You will be a part of the Environment, Health & Safety department at NNPR with two teams: Environment team, Health & Safety team, and profession managers within project portfolio and sustainability. We are 22 highly engaged professionals, technicians, administrators and a student assistant. The Health & Safety team consists of 8 employees including you. We work diligently to support NNPR embracing diversity and inclusion, whilst focusing on having a fun and encouraging a curious working environment.

Novo Nordisk Pharmatech A/S is a 100% owned subsidiary of Novo Nordisk located in Køge. We are more than 350 people covering the entire value chain from R&D and Business Development to Manufacturing, Marketing and Sales. NNPR is a global and leading manufacturer of pharmaceutical ingredients for the pharmaceutical and biopharmaceutical industries. Our purpose is to enable better medicines by providing sustainable pharmaceutical materials through innovative and customized solutions. Our product range consists of quaternary ammonium compounds (QUATs), Recombinant Insuli