Senior Project Manager for manufacturing technology implementation

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 have a significant role in implementing a new groundbreaking panes concept and are you eager to put your project management skills into good use ensuring that we have the right manufacturing equipment to support the new concept? Can you oversee and steer projects related to the introduction of new products and equipment at manufacturing sites across Europe?

Then join our team in Center of Excellence Panes focusing on our pane/glass production facilities where you will take on the role as Senior Project Manager steering large, complex manufacturing technology implementation projects as part of our transitioning from producing insulated glass units to vacuum insulated glass.

Your challenges

You will join a team of 9 skilled Project Managers and Specialists supporting our pane/glass production facilities. As Senior Project Manager, you will collaborate closely with our colleagues in Advanced Material Technology, Product Development and the Supply organization to understand and specify manufacturing equipment requirements to ensure that we implement manufacturing technology that fits the new concept and future production setup.

Additionally, you will engage with technology suppliers, specify and discuss the technical requirements, uncover technology opportunities, and select appropriate solutions, and you will uncover and drive the actions needed for timely equipment and manufacturing process implementation at our panes factories across Europe. You are practically the link between development and the factories, and your key job is to use your understanding of production, flow, mass production, automation, and digitization combined with your solid project management skills to ensure a smooth, high quality and on-time implementation of new, updated equipment and production lines to fit and accommodate the new concept.

Spending a great deal of your time on the floor alongside your colleagues in production, you devote your time to:

• Getting an understanding of the production flow
• Take charge of the Technical requirement specification (TRS) and support the plants in getting the right manufacturing equipment
• Scope and decide on solution and delivery in close collaboration with suppliers and with assistance from our procurement organization and ensure compliance with TRS on delivery
• Ongoing project management - performing daily leadership and communication in and around the project to ensure timely project delivery
• Scope and plan activities, and facilitate meetings and workshops securing that the targets are met
• Guide a diverse team of specialists from own team, and collaborate with internal and external stakeholders from Development, Supply, Production/factories, and external suppliers

Since you will be working on projects at our factories in Europe, a certain amount of travelling should be expected – approx. 20-50 days per year.

The role is based at our factory in Brædstrup, but for the right profile, we are open to consider a hybrid work setup with remote work 1-2 days per week.

Your qualifications

You have technical background by education, and we expect that you bring several years of experience delivering large and highly complex manufacturing technology implementation projects in a production environment. You have experience in technical requirement specification and a well-developed understanding of mechanicals, production flow, automation and digital solutions.

Additionally, you are able to:

• Create visibility of activities and risks while motivating the project team to follow plans and respect deliverables and milestones
• Prepare for each facet of the project, from timelines and financials to team coordination and risk mitigation, ensuring to adapt the plan if circumstances change and escalate critical issues
• Ensure execution of the project plan using relevant project management tools
• Ensure buy-in from key stakeholders – and alignment of expectations
• Work analytically and data driven (incl. FMEA knowledge) to improve how we do things
• Speak and write English at a professional level

You possess the ability to take initiative, provide leadership, and consistently inspire team members throughout the duration of the project. We will come to know you as a structured Senior Project Manager with a sound analytical and technical capacity, and you take pride in meeting your deadlines. You feel comfortable in an outgoing and networking role with a large stakeholder base, and you are a proficient communicator with natural skills of building working relationships internally and externally which enables you to work across the organization and supplier landscape, operate in a matrix organization and enhance cross-functional collaboration.

Your Opportunities

As our new Senior Project Manager, you will get to take part in and exciting change journey and have an integral part in ensuring successful implementation manufacturing technology catering for our novel and groundbreaking concept that will greatly impact our manufacturing setup on a global scale.

The VELUX Group proposes an array of motivating activities, vast possibilities for influencing your career path, and the experience of working with expert and fervent colleagues who esteem commitment and mutual respect. We believe in empowering people, and we support this by providing a high degree of freedom and investing in people who have the will and the ability to make a difference.

Application & 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 look forward to receiving your application and CV as soon as possible. We will review applications and conduct interviews on an ongoing basis. All enquiries 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: Tønningvej 1 Brædstrup