Junior Industrial Designer (12 month maternity cover)

Would you like to have an impact on people's lives by taking part in developing tomorrow’s insulin pens and other medical devices? Are you a newly graduated industrial designer with a passion for medical devices and an eagerness to bring your competencies and experience into play at one of Denmark’s most attractive workplaces? Then you might be the junior industrial designer that we are looking for to fill a 12 month maternity cover in our department for User Experience, Prototypes & Usability. Novo Nordisk Device Research and Development is part of Novo Nordisk R&D. We are passionate about developing the world’s best medical devices for the treatment of chronic diseases within our focused therapeutic areas: Diabetes, Obesity, Haemophilia & Growth hormone disorders. About the department User Experience, Prototypes & Usability is a cross functional department anchored in our Device Innovation Support area. We drive UX, design and usability across both early innovation projects and device development projects. The department consists of 4 highly skilled teams: the Design team, the UX & Usability team, the User Communication team and our internal tool shop that produce looks like models and functioning prototypes of devices in development. The maternity cover as Junior Designer resides with the Design team which consists of 6 design professionals who are responsible for driving the design process for assigned projects. The position As Junior Industrial Designer, you will be working closely together with the Design Leads, delivering hands-on industrial design tasks such as concept development, 3D CAD models, 3D renderings, model making, concept illustration and other relevant design execution tasks. In your daily job you will be situated in the design department but you will also be working closely with the development engineers in the device projects to ensure feasibility and relevance of your design work. Besides your hands-on tasks in device projects, you will also take part in cross-departmental activities such as ideation workshops and design sprints. As Junior Industrial Designer, you can look forward to a very versatile position with high possibility of impacting your own job and the projects you work with. Qualifications Your educational background is BSc or MSc in Industrial Design. Ideally you have 0-3 years of experience from a similar job. It is a prerequisite that you have experience with concept development as well as hand sketching and CAD modelling. Ideally, you are also experienced in model making and have some insights to production and material constraints. Furthermore you are highly skilled in the Adobe Creative Suite and great at making design presentation material such as 3D-renderings and hand sketches. As a person you are known for your creative yet structured way of working, which enables you to turn a complex problem into a tangible design solution. You are self-driven, yet a team-player, curious and open for constructive feedback and thrive in a busy and ever changing environment. As you will interact with many different stakeholders, you need to possess strong communication and interpersonal skills. Additionally, you are fluent in both written and spoken English. Working at Novo Nordisk At Novo Nordisk, your skills, passion and ambition help us change lives for the better. In exchange, we offer you an opportunity to work with extraordinarily talented and dedicated colleagues and benefit from a range of possibilities for professional and personal development.