Koriyama Novo Nordisk
The position

As a Facility Engineering Manager at Novo Nordisk, your role will involve ensuring operational excellence on the Koriyama Factory (KFA) shop floor by collaborating across functions and with Novo Nordisk global organizations when needed.

You will also be in charge of managing and motivating the Facility Engineering Team, preparing long-term facility maintenance plans, overseeing major investment programs, driving kaizen activities, and promoting sustainable practices.

Additionally, the position requires stabilizing and improving facility and Material Handling Systems (MHS), collaborating with stakeholders within the Koriyama plant and Novo Nordisk AktieSelskab (NNAS), and implementing energy-saving activities for buildings and facilities.

Ensure effective management and support for direct reports on a daily basis, prioritizing their growth and knowledge enhancement. Manage labor resources with consideration for work-life-family balance, promoting a healthy and sustainable work environment. Oversee compliance and resolution of people-related issues in line with regulations and company policies. Plan and prioritize maintenance and investment activities, ensuring proper resource allocation and agile management.

Lead quality, compliance, and EHS (Environment, Health, Safety) efforts, ensuring adherence to regulations, internal standards, and continuous improvement initiatives, including ISO compliance.

Qualifications Bachelor's degree or above is required. Work experience in facility engineering or facility maintenance in any industry. Fluent in Japanese and business-level English proficiency, verbal or written are required, ideally having CEFR B1 at minimum. People Management skills are mandatory. 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 energize 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.



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