Mechanical Development Engineer

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 experienced within product development and construction? Do you bring a relevant degree within Mechanical Engineering, and do you want to work with all aspects of mechanical development from the early concept phase over prototyping, documentation, until release for mass production?

Then you might be our new Mechanical Development Engineer!

Your challenges
As our new Mechanical Development Engineer, you will be located at our modern VELUX location in Skjern, and be part of the Drive Units and Controls team. In your team 12 direct colleagues are looking forward to welcome you, and you will be part of, and have a great deal of interaction across the overall Mechatronics and Digital Modules department with more than 50 colleagues. Topics are discussed in a casual tone and with a high degree of interaction between you and your colleagues. We have a natural focus on the technical aspects of our products, and we aim to develop innovative products and solutions in an informal and collaborative work environment.

You'll be right in the heart of our product development process, with unique opportunities to dive deep into all things mechanical – from the early concept phase over development, design for manufacturing, simulations, prototyping, documentation, up until release for production and operations. In short, you'll be a crucial part of crafting the mechanical modules that make everyday life easier, like drive units for windows, blinds and shutters including box build for electrical and digital products.

As an integral part of a cross-functional unit, you will team up with other colleagues within hardware and software as well as technical project managers. Also, you will be in touch with our Value Streams, Quality, Global Procurement, Workshops and Manufacturing.

In addition you will with within the following areas/tasks:

• Understand customer needs to meet module quality, cost, features and performance criteria.
• Perform analysis, testing and verification of materials, modules and module performance as well as quality assurance.
• Construction in CAD (CREO) as well as writing documentation and providing technical project managers with business case material.
• Working with our prototyping workshop to make physical prototypes to test your construction according to requirements related to design, function and quality.

In this role, you will be employed at our modern facilities in Skjern, and you should expect to be 1-2 day per week in Østbirk.

Your qualifications
It is important that you can work independently and in cross-functional teams with many different competencies. You thrive being involved in all project phases and working in a project culture characterized by cross-functional work and knowledge sharing. At the same time, it is crucial that you are able to see things from the customer point of view, and ensure a strong alignment with your stakeholders. You are structured and detail-oriented and take pride in ensuring progress and delivering on time.

It is essential and required that you

• have a relevant degree, minimum on Bachelor’s or Master’s level but could also be higher, within mechanical engineering.
• bring 2-3 years of experience from a similar role, possibly from a mass production company (this could be from full-time employment or perhaps from a longer internship).
• are experienced working in 3D CAD.
• able to clearly communicate and explain technical complex content to peers and stakeholders.
• speak and write English proficiently.

It would be beneficial if you bring experience from working with designing products or parts in plastic.

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.

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 as soon as 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.

Location: Bækgårdsvej 40 Skjern