Director, Quality in Development - Mechatronics

Job Description
#LI-AG1

Are you a strong People Leader motivated by new product development and quality?
Bring your excellent leadership experience and strong Mechatronics background into play in helping us secure the best quality Play & Learning experience for our LEGO® builders of tomorrow!
Please note that relocation support is not offered for this role.

Core Responsibilities
You will lead a team of 8 Quality Specialists, managing quality in the development of LEGO® innovation products and ensure CTQ Critical to quality. You will set the direction for building capabilities, including forming a strong core team and developing capabilities in related functional areas. More specifically you will be responsible for:

• High-risk project portfolio within engineering and innovation initiatives, ensuring that resources are deployed effectively to support software quality, hardware reliability, and technical feasibility across projects
• Establishing a plan to continually improve quality skills in software development and testing for high-risk New Product Introduction (NPI) projects, while following industry standards.
• Building proficiencies in the team to ensure the combination of strong leadership, collaborating, and quality specialist skills
• Developing and sharing advanced quality assurance capabilities. Innovation and "system building" capabilities are still growing in the LEGO Group
• Building and supporting quality assurance activities and processes across our value chain by bridging consumer, development and production
• Mitigating and handling project risk profiles
• Engaging in Product and Technology project by ensuring a clear data driven overview of quality performance and risk related to the product experience and technology capability building

Play your part in our team succeeding
You will join the Quality in Development team in Billund reporting to our Senior Quality Director.

We proactively assure high quality LEGO Play experiences, amplifying the voice of the consumer in development of Products and Technology!

Our focus is, with a strong cross functional collaboration, data driven and comprehensive design thinking approach, creating desirability, reliability, durability and feasibility through preventive and efficient quality assurance process.

Do you have what it takes?
The ideal candidate has a minimum of 5 years leadership experience, leading specialists in the electronics industry and with the ability to develop the team’s expertise in both hardware and software quality assurance, prioritizing the combination of leadership, collaboration, and technical proficiency.

You have strong collaboration, facilitation, and interpersonal skills. With your positive attitude and empowerment, you secure motivation and high happiness within your team. Moreover, we expect:

• 5-10 years of experience in Quality engineering, Technical Design, Project Management, Product Development, and/or Technology development in mechatronic product areas, preferably from a larger global company
• A strong background in working in complex multi-functional partner dynamics – Product groups, Technology Engineering, Manufacturing and other internal partners
• Ability converting play experiences into data-driven verification and validation
• Six Sigma, APQP, DFX or equivalent experience
• Experiences with implementing requirement and test management tools
• Proven track record in Risk management & Technology management on strategic levels
• Proficiency in English
• This role will be based in Denmark, with up to 20 days of travel a year

Applications are reviewed on an ongoing basis. However, please note we do amend or withdraw our jobs and reserve the right to do so at any time, including prior to any advertised closing date. So, if you're interested in this role we encourage you to apply as soon as possible.

What’s in it for you?

Here is what you can expect:

Family Care Leave - We offer enhanced paid leave options for those important times.

Insurances – All colleagues are covered by our life and disability insurance which provides protection and peace of mind.

Wellbeing - We want our people to feel well and thrive. We offer resources and benefits to nurture physical and mental wellbeing along with opportunities to build community and inspire creativity.

Colleague Discount – We know you'll love to build, so from day 1 you will qualify for our generous colleague discount.

Bonus - We do our best work to succeed together. When goals are reached and if eligible, you'll be rewarded through our bonus scheme.

Workplace - When you join the team you'll be assigned a primary workplace location i.e. one of our Offices, stores or factories. Our hybrid work policy means an average of 3 days per week in the office. The hiring team will discuss the policy and role eligibility with you during the recruitment process.

Children are our role models. Their curiosity, creativity and imagination inspire everything we do. We strive to create a diverse, dynamic and inclusive culture of play at the LEGO Group, where everyone feels safe, valued and they belong.

The LEGO Group is highly committed to equal employment opportunity and equal pay and seeks to encourage applicants from all backgrounds (eg. sex, gender identity or expression, race/ethnicity, national origin, sexual orientation, disability, age and religion) to apply for roles in our team.

Research shows that women and people from different underrepresented backgrounds often only apply for a job if they meet 100% of the listed qualifications. If you dream of being a part of our team and you meet many, but not all of our listed qualifications for this role, please apply.

The LEGO Group is fully committed to Children’s Rights and Child Wellbeing across the globe. Candidates offered positions with high engagement with children are required to take part in Child Safeguarding Background Screening, as a condition of the offer.

Thank you for sharing our global commitment to Children’s Rights.

Just imagine building your dream career.

Then make it real.

Join the LEGO® team today.

• Location
  Billund, Denmark
• Job ID:
  0000020755
• Category
  Quality Management