Energy Manager – across our Product Introduction factories 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.

Do you want to directly influence how we monitor and manage energy at our 3 production locations in Denmark within the frame of ISO 50001 and our VELUX Energy Excellence Standards? Are you a persistent individual, who knows how to work efficiently across locations and across organizational levels in a large organization? Do you bring a solid technical foundation with insights into Energy related topics?

Then you might be our new Energy Manager – to support our 3 production facilities in Denmark (Skjern, Thyregod and Østbirk).

Your challenges
As our new Energy Manager you will take a regional role responsible across our 3 PI factories in Denmark. All 3 locations have a mix of mass production and new Product Introduction (PI). You can be employed at either of these locations, and you will report into the QHSE&E (Quality, Health, Safety, Environment & Energy) Manager at the respective location. During a typical work week you will allocate your time and physical presence across all 3 locations according to your priorities, and it is therefore important that you are flexible in regards to travelling across these locations regularly.

Your key purpose in this role is to :

• ensure implementation and alignment of our VELUX Energy Excellence Standards, and thereby ensure Energy Management according ISO 50001 standards across locations – and across our SE&PI organization.
• ensure mapping and prioritization of Energy related activities across locations.
• ensure proper focus, awareness and good behavior on energy in the organization.

More specifically, your key tasks will be to:

• Make a plan for “what, how and when” in regards to Energy Management across our 3 locations.
• Implement and develop monitoring system in PI and develop local superuser.
• Act as process owner on energy management (method development, templates, internal audits, management evaluation, process confirmation tools).
• Monitor energy performance across PI.
• Identify local and cross-location energy optimization projects.
• Secure and support energy assessments in the development and purchase of new equipment (and buildings).
• Ensure compliance with authorities and legal requirements.
• Establish, develop and operate the PI Energy Committee.
• Develop energy reporting; ESG reporting, legislation, energy subsidies.
• Build and develop the Energy Management landscape in QHSE&E management system.

You will collaborate with our internal Facility Energy Managers as well as our Center of Excellence functions.

The position requires limited international travel, in the range of 5-10 days per year.

It is important that you thrive in a dynamic environment, with new assignments and tasks arising continuously. You will handle a wide range of assignments and stakeholders at the same time, which is where your customer focus and structured approach comes into play.

Your qualifications
The ideal candidate has several years of documented experience in a similar role and is able to perform (at least the majority of) the above mentioned areas of responsibilities.

In addition, it is essential for this role that you

• Are able to maintain effective working relationships with a wide range of stakeholders across locations.
• Bring minimum 5 years’ of experience from an ISO-certified production company, preferably from a role where you have worked with Energy standards.
• Bring a solid technical foundation (e.g. from an engineering or other technical education) and strong technical understanding.
• Are proficient in English, and are able to have a professional conversation in Danish as well.

It is seen as an advantage if your bring experience working as project manager, or in a setting where you coordinated or led several complex tasks simultaneously.

As a person we imagine we imagine that you are

• Good at collaborating with a wide range of stakeholders, across several locations.
• Persistent.
• Proactive, including self-management in daily tasks.
• Trustworthy and bring a service-oriented approach.
• Polite and respectable in your dealing with others.

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. We expect that you will be joining us on May 1, 2024, or sooner if possible.

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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