CONTENTS A PROFESSION UNDERGOING CHANGE In Dansk Laborant-Forening/HK (DL-F) we know that our profession contains a vast number of exciting job opportunities. 03 Preface: A profession undergoing change 04 The Analyst: Guarantor for consumer safety 06 The Quality Auditor: Ensures that quality is of the highest order 08 The IT Super User: Bridge-builder between research and IT development 10 The Coordinator: Flair for organizing and knowledge sharing 12 The Logistician: Say what you need and I'll get hold of it 14 The Trainer: The Laboratory Technologist teaches the doctors of the future 16 The Developer: I learn something new every day 18 The Technologist: From alarm clocks to robots 20 The World Citizen: All-round job with an international profile 22 Worth knowing about the general education system 23 Worth knowing about further education and training Text: Gunnar Lomborg and Gorm Grove Illustrations: Kristian Maegaard Nielsen Photos: Hanne Loop 2 In this booklet you will find a description of the nine job profiles which Dansk Laborant-Forening/HK (DL-F) has forecast as being some of the job opportunities, we believe, our members will be the best to undertake. The profession has always been in a process of development, and the future with its new challenges is waiting just around the corner because at the present time development is moving fast within the field of laboratory science. For our members it is all about daring to reach out for the new work disciplines. It is all about seeing new ways to go by building on your new skills and making yourself attractive to the future laboratory scientific labor market. The object of this booklet is to draw attention to all the skills our members have in relation to members and to employers. The object is also to formulate the future of the profession and the continuing need for developing education and training courses within the area of Dansk Laborant-Forening/HK (DL-F). And not least Dansk Laborant-Forening/HK (DL-F) would like to disseminate the message that our members are ready for the future and that it is the right choice for future employees within the field of laboratory science in the workplaces. If you would like to know what Dansk LaborantForening/HK (DL-F) thinks about the future of the profession, you are welcome to contact us. Note: In this booklet the jobtitle laboratory technologist has been used. Dansk Laborant-Forening/HK is aware that other job titles are used, for example: laboratory technician. Dansk Laborant-Forening/HK Weidekampsgade 8, Postbox 470, 0900 København C Phone +45 33 30 44 70, E-mail: dlf@hk.dk, www.hk.dk/dl-f 3 MEET 9 SPECIALISTS WHO ARE CREATING THE FUTURE THE DEV ELOPER THE IT SUPER USER DITOR THE QUALITY AU THE TECHNOLOGIST THE COORDINATOR THE LOGISTICIA N THE ANALYST THE TRAINER LABORATORY TECHNOLOGIST EDUCATION THE WORLD CITIZEN CONTENTS A PROFESSION UNDERGOING CHANGE In Dansk Laborant-Forening/HK (DL-F) we know that our profession contains a vast number of exciting job opportunities. 03 Preface: A profession undergoing change 04 The Analyst: Guarantor for consumer safety 06 The Quality Auditor: Ensures that quality THE ANALYST ANALYTIKEREN 1 GUARANTOR GARANT FOR FOR CONSUMER SIKKERHED FORBRUGERNES SAFETY THE ANALYST Eva Jørgensen has been a laboratory technologist since 1989 and has worked at the Danish Veterinary and Food Administration's laboratory in Ringsted since 2006. At that time, she was, together w THE QUALITY AUDITOR ANALYTIKEREN 1 ENSURES THAT GARANT FOR QUALITY IS OF THE FORBRUGERNES SIKKERHED HIGHEST ORDER DITOR THE QUALITY AU When laboratory technologist, Susanne Jeppe sen, is doing her job at Novo Nordisk A/S in Bagsværd it is done for the most part at a desk and in front of a compute IT SUPER USER BRIDGE-BUILDER BETWEEN RESEARCH AND IT DEVELOPMENT Since Mads Molich completed his education as a laboratory technologist in 2006, he has for the most part not had two working days that are the same. Today he works at Novozymes A/S in Bagsværd as a scientific laboratory technologist o THE COORDINATOR FLAIR FOR ORGANISING AND GATHERING KNOWLEDGE THE COORDINATOR As a working environment and emergency and security coordinator Henriette Lerche no longer works in the laboratory. Her workplace is the long corridors and offices at the Niels Bohr Institute at Copenhagen University on THE LOGISTICIAN SAY WHAT YOU NEED AND I'LL GET HOLD OF IT Laboratory technologist Heidi Irming is a buyer at DTU Biosustain, Novo Nordisk Foundation Center for Biosustainability (CFB) in Hørsholm. She has recently been extremely busy in connection with the moving of DTU Biosustain to a completely THE TRAINER ANALYTIKEREN 1 THE LABORATORY TECHNOLOGIST TEACHES THE DOCTORS OF THE FUTURE Thousands of young medical students have over the years become acquainted with Helle Dyhrfjeld Jensen's professional guidance in the laboratories of the Panum Institute in Copenhagen. Helle is employed as a pr THE DEVELOPER I LEARN SOMETHING NEW EVERY DAY Lene Odgaard Kamstrup is a laboratory technologist with the Danish-American company CMC Biologics A/S, CMC, in Søborg. The biotechnology company is a customer-based company. This means that they have many different customers which they undertake develop THE TECHNOLOGIST FROM ALARM CLOCKS TO ROBOTS Inge Lise Stripp Petersen has always enjoyed technology, IT and programming. Since she was little she has taken everything apart from alarm clocks to sewing machines. Today she is a laboratory technologist at Novo Nordisk A/S in the API Bio Analysis depa THE WORLD CITIZEN I participate in weekly Skype meetings with the Indian and Polish development departments ALL-ROUND JOB WITH AN INTER NATIONAL PROFILE Weekly Skype meetings with Indian engineers, visits to factories in Germany, France and India, courses in England and meetings with Japanese cust WORTH KNOWING ABOUT THE GENERAL EDUCATION SYSTEM WORTH KNOWING ABOUT FURTHER EDUCATION & TRAINING In Dansk Laborant-Forening/HK(DL-F) we are working on creating a transparent way through the education system. It can be in relation to mem bers, employers as well as the political system. In Dansk L ABOUT DANSK LABORANTFORENING/HK (DL-F) Dansk Laborant-Forening/HK (DL-F) is a cross-union association in HK. We organize approx. 10,000 members whose primary educational background is laboratory assistant, laboratory technologist, environmental engineer or environmental technologist; they are employ