Column Pack Team Lead

Do you want to create structure, improve workflows, elevate GMP standards, and be a driving force in taking Column Pack operations on the shop floor to the next level? We’re looking for a hands-on, technically competent Team Lead with strong people skills who can enhance planning, coordination, and communication—so we use time effectively on the floor, work efficiently, and deliver better outcomes across production, with Column Pack as the hub.
 

About the role
As the Team Lead in Column Pack, you will be responsible for the operators’ day-to-day tasks and activities on the shop floor. You will set the framework for daily planning and prioritization, and create clear agreements, handovers, and expectations across Column Pack Support and Column Pack Operators. You will strive for shared ways of working between the two operator teams (Day/Evening), visual planning, and fixed routines so tasks are coordinated, communicated, and followed through. This is a hands-on, technical lead role without formal people-management responsibility.
 

Your responsibilities (not limited to)

• Establish and maintain joint day/weekly planning, including staffing and prioritization.
• Optimize handovers between Support and Operators; improve shift exchange, status updates, and escalation paths.
• Drive and implement standards, GMP/lean improvements, and audit readiness (Housekeeping, etc.).
• Ensure smooth cross-functional collaboration (together with Column Pack Support) with Purification, Maintenance, Engineering, Buffer Prep, Glass Washer, external stakeholders etc.
• Communicate clearly about changes, risks, and decisions; follow up and close out actions.
• Contribute to training and capability building—strengthening the craft of column packing.
   

Your profile

• Experience from drug substance production, preferably work with columns.
• Strong planning, coordination, and overview skills in a high-paced, specialized environment.
• Excellent people skills that build relationships, create shared direction, and can both challenge and work closely with Column Pack Support.
• Driven by quality and continuous improvement; structured, proactive, and solution oriented.
• Clear and precise communication—both verbal and written.
• Confidence to speak up and proactively raise concerns.
• Constructively push back when needed.
   

Working hours

• Monday – Friday, typically between 06:00–17:00.
• Occasionally afternoon / evening work may occur.
   

About the team:
The Column Pack team currently consists of 10 people:

• Six Operators working day/evening shifts from 06:00–22:00
• Four Column Pack Supporters who handle planning, documentation, and coordination with stakeholders and customers, setting operators up for success and supporting DSM with Column Pack–related work

Your responsibility will center around the operators ensuring that all column activities are completed correctly and on time on the shop floor.

Interested?
This is an internal posting only. If you’re interested, please submit a short application and your CV ideally with examples of how you’ve improved planning, collaboration, and GMP standards.

Working at FUJIFILM Biotechnologies

We offer a competitive compensation package in a site/company growing rapidly, with many opportunities for individual growth, we also offer access to fitness and an attractive canteen.

FUJIFILM Biotechnologies is an industry-leading Biologics Contract Development and Manufacturing Organization (CDMO) with locations in Hillerød, Denmark, Teesside, UK, RTP, North Carolina and College Station, Texas, USA. We use our skills, dedication, and ambition to enable impact for the world’s most innovative biotech and biopharma companies reimagining healthcare’s potential. We work across the entire lifecycle of our customers’ products – enabling success throughout. Every cure, vaccine, biologic, and advancement we contribute to starts with our people and our passion. We fuel one another’s passion, help accelerate progress, expand capabilities, strengthen innovation, and improve processes to improve lives.

Our Manufacturing site in Hillerød, Denmark, brings together a complete range of expertise, capabilities, and technologies to manufacture advanced biologics. As we continue to enhance and expand our capabilities, we are looking for people who share our passion, drive, and energy – what we call Genki – to join our team.

We offer the chance to be part of a global workplace where passion, drive, and commitment are met with opportunities for professional and personal development. Deeply committed to diversity and inclusion, we ensure that everyone no matter their background or gender has an opportunity to develop. We take pride in enriching our communities, caring for our environment, and cultivating a world of opportunity for future generations.

We aim to foster a collaborative, innovative and rewarding environment, where diverse perspectives and people come together united by a common purpose and shared values. We pursue our fullest potential as individual contributors and team members. We strive to be the employer of choice and offer a competitive compensation and benefit package.

FUJIFILM Biotechnologies Denmark is an Equal Opportunity Employer. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex, national origin, disability, sexual orientation, gender identify or any other protected class.