Lead Specialist in adhesives and sealants

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 a leading expert within adhesives and sealants, and do you want to join a world leading company? Do you bring at least 5 years of industrial experience working with adhesives?

Then you might be our new Lead Specialist within adhesives and sealants!

Your challenges
As our new Lead adhesives and sealants specialist, you will be based at our Østbirk location, reporting into Kristian Møller (Director, Applied Materials within the Advanced Material Technology organization). Here, you will join an organization of people being lead specialists within their fields of expertise.

You will play a pivotal role in overseeing all aspects of use with adhesives and sealants discovery, development, and application within our organization. Your expertise in polymer science and engineering within adhesives and sealants will be instrumental in driving innovation, optimizing processes, and ensuring the highest quality standards for our products. You will collaborate with specialists and interact with cross-functional teams to develop and implement effective adhesive and coating strategies that align with the company's goals and priorities.

In this role, you will work within the following areas of responsibility:

• Direct and oversee the development activities related to the adhesive, sealant and coating area, including material selection, characterization, and testing.
• Evaluate and contribute to optimize the application and the production processes to ensure product performance, quality, and efficiency.
• Stay on top of the latest advancements in adhesive science and engineering within the field and provide strategic guidance to support product innovation and differentiation.
• Collaborate with various departments, including product design, manufacturing, quality assurance, and supply chain, to ensure seamless integration of polymer technologies into product development and production processes.
• Establish and implement quality assurance protocols and standards for adhesive and sealants applied on products to ensure compliance with industry regulations and customer requirements.
• Provide technical expertise and support to internal and external stakeholders, including customers, suppliers, and regulatory agencies.
• Lead projects from conception to completion, including defining project goals, timelines, and resource allocation.
• Prepare detailed technical reports, documentation, and presentations to communicate findings, recommendations, and project updates to senior management and other stakeholders.
• Identify opportunities for process improvement, with a significant focus on sustainability, cost reduction, carbon footprint minimization, and performance enhancement through the application of new technologies, methodologies, and best practices.
• Ensure alignment across the VELUX value chain and escalate needed strategic decisions both in AMT (Advanced Material Technology) and across the value chain as well.

This position requires 20-40 days of travel per year, mainly within Europa and occasionally overseas.

Your qualifications
To be suitable for this position, it is required that you bring minimum 5 years of industrial experience with adhesives/sealants (ideally 10 to 20 years of experience).

In addition, you have a Master’s degree in Chemical Engineering or a PhD in Chemistry.

Furthermore, you are fluent in English.

As a person we imagine that you

• Enjoy working with many different tasks / projects at the same time, primarily as consultant but also causing real impact where new ground is discovered.
• Are good at working cross-functionally in both operational tasks and projects related to the development of new products and features.
• Work effectively in a large international organization (upwards, sideways and downwards), and that you adjust your communication accordingly, thus collaborating effectively with all levels of the organization as well as different cultures.

Your opportunities
You will be part of an international company where commitment and mutual respect are among our core values. Teamwork and commitment are essential to the way we work. We believe in empowering people, and we support this through delegating responsibility and investing in people who want to make a difference. We work as one team to achieve our targets, and we need your good spirit and commitment to meet our goals.

At VELUX, we have committed to reduce our emissions in line with the most ambitious pathway of the Paris agreement and to go beyond our value chain to capture the equivalent of our historical emissions. We will achieve a 100% reduction in our operational emissions, halve our value chain emissions and capture the equivalent of our historical footprint from operations.

To capture our historical emissions, we have partnered with WWF. Through the partnership with WWF, VELUX finances forest protection and restoration projects that capture the equivalent of our historical emissions from operations since 1941 and up until 2041. The verified carbon units generated by the forest projects are retired and donated as a contribution to the host countries’ national climate target under the Paris agreement.

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 are looking forward to receiving your application and CV.

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.

Location: Industrivej 20 Østbirk