Senior Manager – Technology Center, 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.

Are you an experienced people manager, who enjoys leading technical specialists and project managers? Do you want a position with real impact on the creation of future specially designed equipment? Are you comfortable in a role with a wide range of stakeholder interaction?

Then you might our new Senior Manager to head our Technology Center Denmark!

Your challenges
In this role you will head our Technology Center, Denmark department, having approximately 20 highly skilled employees reporting directly to you. Your employees include Project Managers, Mechanical Designers, Automation Programmers, Electricians and Mechanical Technicians. You will report into Dennis Hansen, who is heading Supply Technology, and you will be based at our location in Skjern, where the majority of your direct reports are located.

Technology Center Denmark is an internal VELUX service organization focused on supporting our Center of Excellence functions and VELUX Product Introduction factories by designing, developing, manufacturing, assembling and programming advanced specially designed equipment and input to New Product Launch (NPL) projects regarding DFM, DFA, DFP. The primary role is to support NPL, while service and support for our mass production sites are covered by a separate department.

One of your key focus areas will be to build up a Technology Centre at our Østbirk location providing machine-building for all product introduction factories in close co-operation with the management of the Centers of Excellence (CoE) functions within our Supply Engineering and Production Introduction (SE&PI) organization.

While we naturally expect you to bring your ideas to the table and implement changes in collaboration with your manager, it is also important that you focus on supporting the current positive culture existing in this department.

Your primary tasks will be to:

• Supervise a team of highly skilled specialists.
• Maintain and develop relations to your key stakeholders, including both internal VELUX functions as well as external suppliers.
• Ensure and develop a capable and skilled department able to support the production of VELUX’s future projects in the best possible way.
• Ensure continuous resource and capacity planning.
• Follow up on financial figures.
• Ensure strategy deployment within own area of responsibility.

In this role, you should consider approx.. 15 days of travel per year, primarily in Europe – e.g. to visit VELUX production companies and supplier events.

Your Qualifications
To be the ideal candidate for this role, you

• Are an experienced people manager (5+ years), preferably with leadership of technical specialists.
• Bring knowledge and experience in automation and production technologies (e.g., robotics, control systems, digitization, and general mechanics/mechatronics).
• Have good stakeholder management capabilities.
• Are proficient in English and Danish – spoken and written.

It is seen as a benefit if you bring experience from a similar role, but this is not a requirement for applying for the role.

As a person, you thrive in a function where collaboration is key for reaching our goals, and your positive mindset is a fundament for delivering effective solutions, thereby supporting VELUX’s purpose of creating well-being for people and planet by transforming spaces using daylight and fresh air.

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
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. We foresee that you will start in this position in January 2025.

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: Stålvej 7 Skjern