Job Opportunities in Denmark

In the VELUX Group, we offer you a world of opportunities and the chance to create a bright future. From the forefront of the sustainable indoor living industry, we enable those who live, work and play under the roof transform their spaces and live a healthier everyday life with more daylight and fresh air.
The VELUX Group is an international, family-owned business with strong financial roots and each year we are able to create real impact by reinvesting in society, our employees and planet through our foundations.
Alongside the rest of our values, “courage” and “mutual respect” define our actions every day and how we wish to contribute to the world.

Are you passionate about technical project management and ready to drive advancements in manufacturing?

Join our dedicated team at the VELUX Group's Center of Excellence in Thyregod, Give , and make a global impact with maintenance-free materials!

At the VELUX Group , our Center of Excellence in Supply is committed to ensuring manufacturing excellence across our many production companies globally. The Center of Excellence Maintenance Free Materials (Co E MFM) leads production technology activities in the fields of plastic/polymer moulding, extruding, washing lacquering, machining (milling drilling…), welding, reinforcement (wood/steel)and processing. More specifically, the Co E MFM specifies, develops, and delivers production technologies for our production companies. It specifies technology standards and develops new technologies as well as maintaining and optimizing existing ones.

Your challenges

As Technical Project Manager in our Center of Excellence – Maintenance-Free Materials (Co E MFM) department in Thyregod, you will oversee projects related to manufacturing technologies and processes specifically for maintenance-free materials. More specifically, you will utilize your people skills and technical insight to specify requirements and lead the sourcing, testing, and approval processes for new manufacturing equipment, including SAT (Site Acceptance Testing) and FAT (Factory Acceptance Testing), in close collaboration with our production companies. Additionally, you will ensure that equipment and processes align with the department’s value chain responsibilities and standards.

More specifically, you will:

• Head and supervise both local and global manufacturing equipment projects, ensuring high quality and timely deliverables.
  
• Develop and maintain project plans, timelines, and budgets for equipment sourcing and implementation.
  
• Ensure pro-active coordination, collaboration and dialogues with IT, our Production companies, logistic, quality, and Procurement and suppliers.
  
• Build relationships to all key stakeholders and act as sparring partner for Supply Engineering teams, Product Organization and our Production Companies where the technologies are implemented.
  
• Act as the primary point of contact with suppliers for technical discussions and project updates.
  
• Actively suggest improvement opportunities such as improving machines, equipment, logistic automation and logistics processes.
  

You will report directly to Director Co E MFM, Celia Le Gouil. This role requires approximately 20-30 days of travelling per year – domestic and international travel.

Your Qualifications

As a person, you are structured and systematic and take pride in delivering on your responsibilities on time and at required quality. You are proficient in planning and know how to visualize a project plan and break it into suitable work packages. You are collaborative and a skilled communicator with the ability to get people onboard and work towards one common goal. This requires solid stakeholder management skills, and you are characterised by your ability to efficiently work and communicate across all levels of an organization and with a diverse group of stakeholders. You are a team player, and you know how to motivate your project team continuously to deliver high quality on time.

Moreover, you:

• Have an educational background within a technical area, e.g. mechanical engineering, manufacturing/production engineering, automation engineering or related field.
  
• Bring some years of experience in Project Management focusing on specifying and implementing production equipment.
  
• Bring profound knowledge of machinery and insights into the intersections between development functions and technical implementation in manufacturing.
  
• Have a curious mind and an open attitude towards learning new technologies.
  
• Have a sound analytical problem solving capacity.
  
• Speak and write English at a professional level and you are able to have a basic social conversation in Danish as well. Speaking polish would be a plus.
  

Your opportunities

At the VELUX Group, we give you the chance to be part of a company that leads the market in sustainable indoor living. In addition to operating at a highly professional level, our team is characterized by an informal tone and a healthy sense of humor, and we work as one team to reach our goals.

We believe in empowering people, and we support this through sharing knowledge, delegating responsibility, and investing in people who want to make a difference.

Application and contact

Read more about the VELUX Group at www.velux.com, where you can also learn more about working at our company and what to expect in our recruitment process.

We look forward to receiving your application and CV as soon as possible. We will review candidates and conduct interviews on an ongoing basis. All enquiries will be treated confidentially.

Equal Opportunity Employer

VELUX Residential is fully committed to the concept and practice of equal opportunity in all aspects of employment. To further our goal of equal employment opportunity for all employees and prospective employees, it is the policy of VELUX Residential to recruit, hire, train, and promote persons in all job titles without regard to race, color, religion, sex, age, disability, protected veteran status, national origin, sexual orientation, or any other basis prohibited by applicable law. All employment decisions shall be consistent with the principle of equal employment opportunity and only job-related qualifications will be required.