Sustainability Specialist

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.

Sustainability Specialist – With focus on New Product Development

Your challenges

VELUX has a very ambitious sustainability strategy, which comprises elements such as capturing our historical carbon footprint and making our packaging 100% recyclable. We also target to reduce our product carbon footprint by 50% and to increase the circularity of our products, components and materials.

This role is anchored in the VELUX Innovation Center (VINC), which is responsible for all new product development, in the team Sustainable Design & Simulation.

The team is responsible for implementing sustainable design into product development and enable development projects in reaching their sustainability goals, both regarding CO2 reduction and circularity.

The candidate will be part of the team setting the strategic direction within sustainability for VINC and will support projects by guiding them on applying sustainable design, developing guidelines and ways of working for projects and product development.

This role will add impactful value to both development projects and the overall sustainability strategy by integrating sustainable design into the way of working in VINC and ensuring the overall focus of applied sustainable design.

As a sustainability specialist you will be part of defining the key processes of implementing sustainable design in product development and a crucial partner for projects when planning and identifying the path to reach the sustainability goals.

This role is new and you will have the opportunity to influence the role and ways of working. But we have defined some key tasks:

• Calculate the carbon footprint and evaluate the circularity of products and projects
• Guide projects and product developers in applying and integrating sustainable design
• Proactively gather learnings across projects, ensuring a comprehensive understanding of best-practices.
• Ensure training and sparring of relevant employee groups in VINC.
• Maintain an overview of all VINC sustainability initiatives, providing regular reports on progress and related recommendations.
• Develop guidelines, best practices, small tools and how-to for sustainable design

Your qualifications:

• MSc in Engineering or similar
• 2-5 years of experience within sustainability and product development
• Experience with specific IT tools, if applicable: Sustainability tools, Microsoft Office
• In-depth knowledge of ecodesign, design for sustainability, e.g. decarbonization of products and circular design.
• Experience within product development, 3D design, product development processes is preferred
• Language requirements: English, Danish is an advantage
• Background in product development with an in-depth knowledge of the how to reduce the CO2 footprint of products and components by design and material choices, and of circular design principles.
• Good at communicating complex results at an understandable level
• Great teamwork skills and team spirit

Your opportunities
You will work alongside experienced colleagues – in a setting where knowledge is shared, and responsibility is given to those who can and will. Our organisation is characterised by an informal tone and respect for each other, both as team members and as individuals.

We are a solid value-based company where commitment, mutual respect and courage are among the core values and teamwork and professionalism are essential to the way we work.

Application and contact
Learn more about the VELUX Group online at www.velux.com, where you can read more about working at our company and what to expect of our recruitment process.

We are looking forward to receiving your application and CV as soon as possible. We are reviewing candidates and calling for interviews on an ongoing basis.

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.

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