Senior Product Developer - for our Opening Modules area

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 enthusiastic about innovative products? Do you have expertise in developing mechanical modules in steel and plastic? Would you relish the opportunity to collaborate with one of the most influential brands in the global building materials industry?

If so, consider joining our team as Senior Product Developer in Velux Innovation Center.

Your challenges
As our new Senior Product Developer, you will report to Kristian Westh (Senior Manager, Opening Modules) and become an integral part of a team of 10 colleagues working across Hørsholm and Østbirk. This team is responsible for developing mechanical opening modules for our future products.

Your primary responsibilities will include:

• Idea and concept development
• Module development and maturation
• Documentation, verification, and final implementation in production

The module development process relies on robust design methods and simulations. You’ll have an important role in project teams, collaborating closely with other development teams, as well as our market and supply organizations. Additionally, you’ll be a vital contributor in liaising with stakeholders, including internal production, market teams, and external suppliers—spanning our factories in Denmark and the rest of Europe.

Velux Innovation Center – Opening Modules has a hybrid setup with colleagues located in both Hørsholm and Østbirk, working closely together both physical and virtual, as one united team. We expect that you mainly will be located at our Østbirk office.

More specifically, your daily tasks will include:

• Idea and mechanism concept development, including visualizing physical or digital solutions in 3D CAD.
• Detailed design of mechanical modules and design units in steel and plastic.
• Ensuring that product design and functional requirements align seamlessly.
• Facilitating internal prototype testing and development tests, including test requisitions.
• Providing the product development processes with robust design methodology to ensure design and construction reliability and predictability.
• Performing simulations on relevant designs and features to qualify solutions.
• Developing new test methods if required in collaboration with the test department.
• Creating a technical and presentational basis for decisions during review and Gate meetings.

Moreover, part of your job will involve participating in Front End and Stage Gate projects. You’ll be responsible for deliverables to Gate discussions and presenting technical issues at review meetings. Additionally, you’ll participate in relevant seminars and fairs, both nationally and internationally (typically within Europe).

Therefore, expect some travel between company offices, factories, and partners within Denmark—20-30 days per year. You can also anticipate 1-3 yearly business trips outside Denmark, such as visiting our non-Denmark-based factories.

Your qualifications
As a naturally curious individual, you approach situations with a positive and pragmatic attitude, and you dare promote a new “as-is”, whenever you see opportunities for setting a new direction for the benefit of our company and customers. Your innovative and solution-oriented mindset drives you – especially when it comes to product design issues, documentation, and verifications. You thrive in an independent role where you engage with diverse stakeholders and can express your ideas and insights in larger forums, such as project groups.

Your systematic and detail-oriented work style reflects your commitment to quality. You meticulously document findings, share knowledge, and consistently meet deadlines. One of your trademarks is that you can share knowledge and present it in a less technical way, e.g. to VP level of our organization.

To be suitable for this role, we require that you have the following qualifications:

Educational background:

• Holds a technical degree, preferably as a bachelor or master within mechanical engineering.
• Possess a great technical insight and interest.

Experience

• Bring a minimum of 6-7 years of experience in product development for physical products, focusing on steel and plastic mechanism design.
• Demonstrate a high level of construction knowledge.

Technical skills

• Are proficient in 3D CAD, FEM simulation and Excel.
• Are fluent in English (both spoken and written).

In addition, it is seen as an advantage if you

• Bring a good knowledge of robust design methodology.
• Are experienced working with specifications in PLM (Product Lifecycle Management) systems like Windchill (although not a strict requirement).
• Bring some experience with MatLab programming.
• Understand customer needs, technical trends and developments, and translate them into concrete solutions.
• Understand value streams and key processes, and proactively question “as-is”.

Your opportunities:

Joining our team means being part of an environment characterized by an informal tone and a healthy sense of humor. We believe in empowering individuals through knowledge sharing, delegated responsibility, and investment in those who seek to make a difference.

You will be joining a value-based company where commitment, courage and mutual respect are among the core values, and where 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 will review applications and conduct ongoing interviews, so do not wait to apply. All inquiries will be treated confidentially.

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 22 Østbirk

Additional location:

• Ådalsvej 99 Hørsholm