Prototyper, Maker Lab (Parental Leave Cover)

Job Description
Are you passionate about creating innovative play experiences for children worldwide and love looking 5 years ahead with your ideas?
We're seeking a dynamic individual, focusing on prototyping new play. As a Prototyper, you'll play a crucial role in bringing ideas to life, collaborating with a creative team to develop prototypes!

This is a temporary Parental Leave cover position for the period 1st of February to 31st of August 2025.

Core responsibilities

• Create new play by making various prototypes in the needed quality for the Product Marketing & Development within agreed deadlines.
• Collaborate and brainstorm with the other team members to explore new play experiences
• Present prototypes and new play experiences through builds, videos and storytelling
• Facilitate maker events & educate co-workers
• Support with Department initiatives
• Actively builds and uses a network across the organization
• You are in charge of running your own process and deliver the right Prototype Quality (play value, stability, functionality) to agreed deadlines
• Take an active role and responsibility of own development – and take ownership of own time management and process

Play your part in our team succeeding
You will come in to our Play Discovery organization, which is a part of our Creative Play Lab (CPL). Here your responsibilities will be to explore and create prototypes of new play experiences.

From idea to play: Within the Prototypes Maker LAB you will contribute with making prototypes in the workshops in order to discover new play experiences for kids all around the world.

Do you have what it takes?

• Educated Industrial designer, bachelor of engineering in integrated design and/or a Technical background
• CAD skills, preferable Siemens NX, and basic IT skills (Office 365)
• Skills in processing brass & plastic materials (Lathe, Mill, Drill press or CNC Milling) will be an advantage
• Maker Mentality - Experimenting, Playing, failing, learning, doing. An entrepreneur who takes action and starts with their hands
• Be able to evaluate the actual task and choose the most suitable prototyping methods
• You are curious and innovative, and therefore find it natural to experiment and document the journey
• Professional and openminded approach to new tasks, show commitment and passion for own and colleagues' work and ideas
• Are adaptable, can solve tasks independently and navigate in an always changing environment
• Outgoing and comfortable in presenting to others
• Great communication skills in English, both written and oral. In addition, Danish will be a plus

The position is based in Billund, DK and relocation support is not offered for this role.

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Applications are reviewed on an ongoing basis. However, please note we do amend or withdraw our jobs and reserve the right to do so at any time, including prior to any advertised closing date. So, if you're interested in this role we encourage you to apply as soon as possible.

What’s in it for you?

Here is what you can expect:

Family Care Leave - We offer enhanced paid leave options for those important times.

Insurances – All colleagues are covered by our life and disability insurance which provides protection and peace of mind.

Wellbeing - We want our people to feel well and thrive. We offer resources and benefits to nurture physical and mental wellbeing along with opportunities to build community and inspire creativity.

Colleague Discount – We know you'll love to build, so from day 1 you will qualify for our generous colleague discount.

Bonus - We do our best work to succeed together. When goals are reached and if eligible, you'll be rewarded through our bonus scheme.

Workplace - When you join the team you'll be assigned a primary workplace location i.e. one of our Offices, stores or factories. Our hybrid work policy means an average of 3 days per week in the office. The hiring team will discuss the policy and role eligibility with you during the recruitment process.

Children are our role models. Their curiosity, creativity and imagination inspire everything we do. We strive to create a diverse, dynamic and inclusive culture of play at the LEGO Group, where everyone feels safe, valued and they belong.

The LEGO Group is highly committed to equal employment opportunity and equal pay and seeks to encourage applicants from all backgrounds (eg. sex, gender identity or expression, race/ethnicity, national origin, sexual orientation, disability, age and religion) to apply for roles in our team.

Research shows that women and people from different underrepresented backgrounds often only apply for a job if they meet 100% of the listed qualifications. For all candidates, if you dream of being a part of our team and you meet many, but not all of our listed qualifications for this role, please apply.

The LEGO Group is fully committed to Children’s Rights and Child Wellbeing across the globe. Candidates offered positions with high engagement with children are required to take part in Child Safeguarding Background Screening, as a condition of the offer.

Thank you for sharing our global commitment to Children’s Rights.

Just imagine building your dream career.

Then make it real.

Join the LEGO® team today.

• Location
  Billund, Denmark
• Job ID:
  0000021679
• Category
  Engineering & Science