Analytical Equipment Specialist

Pharmacosmos / Fuldtid

Slået op: 03.03.2025

Are you passionate about analytical equipment qualification and validation? Do you thrive in a dynamic, collaborative environment where you can make a significant impact?

Pharmacosmos is seeking a skilled and proactive Analytical Equipment Specialist to strengthen the QC department and help ensure the quality and compliance of their laboratory equipment.

Pharmacosmos is a global pharmaceutical company, with headquarter in Holbæk, DK and subsidiaries in USA, United Kingdom, Germany, and China. Fueled by rapid growth, and supported by over 650 employees, Pharmacosmos continue to embrace an entrepreneurial mindset, forging global partnerships to tackle pressing health challenges and improve patient outcomes worldwide. Pharmacosmos have a collaborative and entrepreneurial company culture, rooted in its Danish heritage, and builds on people-centricity, quality, and innovation

About the department

The QC department at Pharmacosmos consists of 27 dedicated employees, including chemists, laboratory technicians, and specialists. The department is responsible for a wide range of tasks to ensure that Pharmacosmos’ products comply with applicable quality standards and specifications. This includes qualification, requalification, and validation of analytical equipment, which are integral parts of the department’s daily operations.

The department fosters a strong team spirit, knowledge sharing, and social engagement through both company events and employee-driven initiatives. Leadership is based on trust, autonomy, and continuous feedback, ensuring a supportive and engaging work environment.

About the job

As an Analytical Equipment Specialist, you will play a crucial role in upgrading and qualifying major analytical equipment in the QC laboratory. Your expertise in equipment qualification, validation, and compliance will be key in ensuring operational excellence. You will collaborate closely with laboratory technicians, analytical chemists, and the specialist responsible for Part 11 compliance.

The responsibilities of the role include:

• Qualify large analytical equipment in QC in alignment with updated regulatory guidelines.
• Collaborate closely laboratory technicians, analytical chemists and the Part 11 responsible chemist to maintain compliance standards.
• Assess and prioritize requirements to distinguish between essential and optional elements.
• Represent QC in cross-functional projects, such as qualifying laboratory equipment at CMOs, supporting equipment selection for development activities, or introducing new analytical techniques.
• Handle daily QC tasks, including equipment troubleshooting and supervising external technicians.
• Contribute to general laboratory activities and step into roles outside your primary expertise as needed.

About you

To succeed in this role, you should have:

• A degree in Mechanical Engineering, Chemical Engineering, Pharmacy, or a related field.
• At least 3–5 years of experience in the pharmaceutical industry.
• Proven expertise in equipment qualification, covering the full process from URS development to validation planning, qualification, and decommissioning.
• A thorough understanding of current guidelines and regulatory standards.
• Experience managing and delivering larger assignments.
• Strong collaboration skills, enabling you to work effectively across teams.

In addition to your technical qualifications, you are a proactive and self-driven professional who thrives in a dynamic work environment. You are detail-oriented and analytical, ensuring compliance and precision in all aspects of your work. Your strong communication skills allow you to align effectively with various stakeholders, and you balance specialist expertise with the adaptability of a generalist. You are motivated by evolving tasks and open to tackling challenges beyond your core expertise, making you a valuable team player in cross-functional collaborations.

Pharmacosmos offers

• An opportunity to join a dynamic environment where your expertise will have a meaningful impact on shaping the IT strategy and driving the cloud transformation journey.
• Inspiring and flexible working environment that values balance, respect, and the well-being of its employees.
• An exciting role where you can develop your personal and professional competencies and contribute to the continued global growth. You will work closely with talented and driven colleagues who are passionate about learning, collaborating, and advancing together.
• An attractive and competitive compensation package.

Additional information

Your application and CV (in English) should be submitted no later than the 23^rd of March 2025, using the link above. This recruitment is supported by Capax Recruitment. Please contact Marianne Petersen at mkp@capaxrecruitment.com for any questions about the recruitment.

About the company

Pharmacosmos is considered a world leading authority in treatment of iron deficiency anaemia. Pharmacosmos is a global pharmaceutical company and employs +650 employees globally. Pharmacosmos is headquartered in Holbæk where the majority of the employees work.

Pharmacosmos is a family-owned company with more than 50 years of innovation and leadership in iron- and carbohydrate-based treatments and solutions for human and animal use. Pharmacosmos has subsidiaries in US, UK, Germany and China. For the rest of the world, they are selling through partnerships, making Pharmacosmos products globally present. Its manufacturing facilities are approved, among others, by the Danish Medicines Agency and the US FDA. The products are marketed in around 80 countries. The heritage is Danish, but they work globally.

As a research-based company, its ongoing R&D programme focuses on improving the lives of patients with iron deficiency with or without anaemia. More than 1 billion people live with iron deficiency anaemia and it is the leading cause of death for an estimated 180,000 people every year. This makes it one of the largest global health challenges of our time.

The Executive Leadership Team is headed by Tobias S. Christensen, who is supported by Finance, Marketing and Medical. Additional supporting functions reporting to the CEO are Corporate Development, Legal, Regulatory Affairs, Production and Supply Chain.

The culture of Pharmacosmos is well-established. This is reflected and supported by the company values; people driven, committed to quality and innovating for better lives and by giving people the freedom to make an impact. Consequently, the values guide the everyday work across all countries. They are the compass for the decision-making in both good and challenging times. Also, Pharmacosmos is a business based on trust and is characterized by a strong sense of responsibility. This is the basis for the company’s ambitions as a corporate citizen and its approach to sustainability which is based on a minimum impact on the environment, to ensure safe and healthy working conditions in all locations, to act with integrity and to be in compliance and to build mutual expertise together with partners and stakeholders around the world.