Continuous Improvement Scientist for QC Testing

Are you eager to join a fast-growing pharmaceutical company with focus on Continuous Improvements (CI)? Now you have the opportunity as we are looking for a CI Scientist who shares our passion, drive, and energy – what we call Genki – to join QC Testing.

About FUJIFILM Diosynth Biotechnologies and our Quality Control Department
FUJIFILM Diosynth Biotechnologies is a world leading Contract Development Manufacturing Organization (CDMO) serving customers in the pharmaceutical industry – from pre-clinical investigations to commercial GMP production. Our overall mission is to “Advancing Tomorrow’s Medicines” and we like to invite you to be part of that journey.

Our Quality Control (QC) department at site Hillerød consists of approximately 230 employees divided into different support teams and four testing teams. In QC we strive towards a OneQC team spirit where we help and support each other across teams not only to reach our goals but also to support a high level of collaboration and possibilities for personal development. The pillar in our QC department is our employees – our success is only possible due to competent and dedicated colleagues, who wants to make a difference for QC, our site, our customers, and patients all over the globe. As a leading CDMO company we, in QC, are obligated to continuously improve our way of working creating a dynamic and inspiring environment with huge individual co-decision making due to our flat organizational structure.

The culture at FUJIFILM Denmark (FDBD) is key if you ask our employees and besides a competitive salary and bonus package, we offer health insurance, massage and physiotherapy, health check, sabbatical (4 weeks extra vacation every 7th year), fitness center, possibility to work from home and most recently we invested in a mobile barista coffee van. FDBD also has a canteen arrangement incl. Friday brunch and monthly afternoon cake, just as we have a “bell ringing” tradition when reaching important milestones.

About the QC Testing
QC Testing consists of 4 departments; Bioassay & Virology, Microbiology & EM, General Chemistry and Chromatography – in total we are approximately 110 people. The various departments support the Drug Substance Manufacturing and Drug Product Manufacturing with In-process testing, Drug Substance Testing, Drug product testing as well as designing, sampling, and testing of Environmental Monitoring and Utility Monitoring of production areas. We handle +200 different analysis methods that all require various types of instruments & complexity. We have grown significantly over the last 4 years where we as a CDMO has implemented many new customers, and subsequently implemented all the methods associated with testing of the customers products. Due to the fast growth and the many new responsibilities that has come with new customers, methods, and complexity – then we need to move our department to next level. We need to do something differently and work more focused on working smarter not harder, and invest the time in optimizing our processes, procedures, and make sure we constantly have focus on continuous improvements. That is where you come into the picture!

About the position
We want a Continuous Improvement Scientist to help the 4 departments investigate various problems or processes, with the focus of supporting and driving the improvements projects locally or across the departments in QC Testing Teams. You will be reporting directly into the Director for the QC Testing Teams with the aim of making sure we prioritize the right projects across the 4 departments and supporting the QC Testing management team in anchoring and executing the strategic initiatives in the organization.

You will be part of a CI network and work closely with the entire QC Department and the QC CI Partner. Lastly you will work very close with the SMEs and managers from the various departments on the optimization projects.

Your primary tasks will be but not limited to:

• You will function as Project Manager for various improvement projects across the 4 teams.
• You will investigate, support, and drive and consequently maybe also execute on the projects – this will often also include updating of various processes, SOPs etc to finalize the implementation.
• You will help drive a CI culture with the QC testing management team.
• You will help making presentations and business cases where needed for large optimizations and communications to stakeholders or upper management in Fujifilm.
• Your will help QC Testing Teams move to a new level as a department that constantly look at making improvements.
• You will play a vital role in assuring we have focus on the strategic projects and must-win-battles for QC Testing teams.

Professional and Personal Qualifications
The ideal candidate holds a master’s degree in Biochemistry, Biology, Biotechnology, Pharmaceutical Sciences or similar combined with experience from the pharmaceutical industry, preferably experience from QC. We are looking for a person who has the right attitude and energy and understands the requirements in a cGMP QC laboratory.

Your qualifications are:

• You have project management skills and are used to running project across teams and has experience with the common project management tools.
• You have good communication skills and are used to make very good PowerPoint presentations that can explain complexity in a simple manner.
• You possess excellent collaboration skills and understands the importance of OneTeam (OneQC) mind-set where we aim at helping cross-functionally.
• You are curious, self-driven, dedicated, thorough and systematic and can plan your projects and deliverables in a structured way.
• You have previous experience either as LEAN responsible, CI partner, and knows the various CI/LEAN/Shingo tools.
• You have experience with facilitating workshops.
• Fluency in English is required as English is our corporate language.

At FDBD we put #PeopleFirst and we always look for candidates with the right combination of personality and skills, and we have high focus on work-life balance despite that we are a busy company. We are many different nationalities and personalities at FDBD and for us to succeed we all need to focus on communication, take responsibility, and display great interpersonal skills.

Application
Has this sparked your interest? Then we urge you to send an updated CV and cover letter as soon as possible. We will continuously invite relevant candidates for job interviews and will close the position as soon as we have found the right candidate.

In case you have any questions, please do not hesitate to contact Director, Dinah Adeltoft +45 91337403

FUJIFILM Diosynth Biotechnologies is a world leading cGMP Contract Development and Manufacturing Organisation (CDMO) with over 25 years’ experience. As a world leading CDMO we combine technical leadership in cell culture, microbial fermentation and gene therapies with state of the art GMP manufacturing, from our network of four global locations in the USA, UK and DK. We currently employ over 2,000 dedicated staff who have a reputation for excellent customer service, flexibility, and responsiveness.

Learn more at https://fujifilmdiosynth.com/

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Location: FDBD Hillerod