Logistics Associate I

About the Department

At Novo Nordisk, we are helping to improve the quality of life for millions of people worldwide. For more than 100 years, we have led the way in diabetes care. Being part of Novo Nordisk allows our employees to embark on the opportunity to help improve the quality of life for millions of people around the world.

 

In NC, we operate three pharmaceutical manufacturing facilities that are responsible for fulfilling different steps in our injectable and oral treatment supply chains.  Our newer Active Pharmaceutical Ingredients (API) facility in Clayton, NC sits on 825,000 square-feet of state-of-the-art equipment, and houses the Fermentation, Recovery and Purification in the production of ingredients for Novo Nordisk’s innovative oral products.  At API, you’ll join a global network of manufacturing professionals who are passionate about what they do.  

 

What we offer you:

• Leading pay and annual performance bonus for all positions
• All employees enjoy generous paid time off including 14 paid holidays
• Health Insurance, Dental Insurance, Vision Insurance – effective day one
• Guaranteed 8% 401K contribution plus individual company match option
• Family Focused Benefits including 14 weeks paid parental & 6 weeks paid family medical leave
• Free access to Novo Nordisk-marketed pharmaceutical products
• Tuition Assistance 
• Life & Disability Insurance
• Employee Referral Awards

 

At Novo Nordisk, you will find opportunities, resources, and mentorship to help grow and build your career.  Are you ready to realize your potential?  Join Team Novo Nordisk and help us make what matters.
 

 

The Position

Support all aspects of central and satellite warehousing requirements for the site regarding the General Ambient, Hazardous, Cold & Frozen Storage, and Manufacturing Storage (Fermentation, Recovery, Purification) functioning as part of a high-performance work team. Perform duties in Coldstream, Robex, SAP/ERP and MES for Inventory Control including receipt, put-away, storage and shipping. Utilize systems including Tulip electronic logbooks, Coupa Procurement, K&N 4PL, & NNTZW to perform daily work tasks. Maintain inventory records, rectify errors & prepare balance & shortage reports as required.

 

Relationships

Reports to Manager.

 

Essential Functions

• Support material handling operations for hazardous, ambient, +5c and -20c materials in drum, pallet, and IBC configurations, using desktop and RFT (scan gun) transactions in SAP for receiving, labeling, storing, retrieving, shipping, and delivery
• Fulfil production order requirements including Kanban area replenishment
• Assist in monitoring inventory control of all warehouse materials including physical inventory of EJ Warehouse, Spine Warehouse, and assigned production track areas through storing, retrieving, cycle counts, and year-end inventory of materials
• Develop system knowledge in SAP/ERP, MES, Coupa, Coldstream, Robex, Tulip, NNTZW, K&N 4PL to be able to utilize system transactions to perform receipt, issuance material transfer, production intermediate batch staging, and shipping
• Develop knowledge of inventory control of all incoming, intermediate and shipping of materials to support site manufacturing goals
• Develop skills to process material requisitions & staging area replenishment for hazardous/nonhazardous materials in drum, pallet, and IBC configurations for all GMP raw materials and consumables
• Load & unload product (Ambient, Hazardous, Cold, Frozen) from trucks, tankers & ISO containers, as required
• Real time review of electronic batch records (SAP, MES, Robex, NNTZW, Tulip) ensuring compliance to Standard Operating Procedures (SOPs) & current Good Manufacturing Practices (cGMP) standards
• Review SOP’s & related documents to ensure GMP compliance and product quality; participate in GHK walks
• Manage individual training plan
• Maintain clean room areas & perform environmental monitoring, as required
• Execute production schedule to ac