Senior Manager – To Head Our Technology Support 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.

Do you have deep technical insight and the ability to translate technical details into business language? Are you experienced in leadership and stakeholder management? Do you wish to contribute to our sustainability goals by reducing our carbon footprint through innovative technology?

Then you might our new Senior Manager to head our Technology Support function!

Your challenges
In this role you will join our Supply Technology organization consisting of 60 employees, and you will have approx. 8 direct employees (currently 4 but growing). You will report into Dennis Hansen, who is heading Supply Technology, and you will be based at our location in either Østbirk or Skjern.

Supply Technology consists of two Technology Centers (in Denmark and in France), a Business Support function and the Technology Support function which you will be heading. In total, an organization with approx. 60 employees.

Your main areas of responsibility will be within the following:

• Optimization and Support:
  Enhance existing technology and provide daily support, including troubleshooting and resolving breakdowns.
• OT Security Management:
  Oversee OT security projects, ensuring compliance through audits and minimizing gaps.
• Standards Development:
  Develop, maintain, and enforce production technology standards and technology purchase standards.
• Sustainability:
  Ensure all new equipment designs reduce CO2 emissions and consumption.

Your primary tasks will be to:

• Build up a support organization for break-down support and optimization on equipment built by our own Technology Center in Denmark and France.
• Develop, maintain, support and assess Production Technical Standards and CAPEX investment model.
• Lead “Design for Zero” track in our sustainability journey (zero carbon).
• Lead OT security building the new strategy for OT Security inkluding assessment of the VELUX production companies and follow up on progress in reducing the gap on the OT security deviations.
• Drive communication and increase our internal social media presence.

In this role, you should consider approx. 20 days of travel per year, primarily in Europe.

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

• Possess deep technical knowledge with the ability to discuss and translate technical details into business language.
• Demonstrate strong leadership and personnel management skills.
• Bring extensive experience in effective stakeholder management.
• You are proficient in English – spoken and written.

It is seen as a benefit if you bring knowledge about ISO 50001 (Energy) as well as digitalization in an Operating Technology environment.

As a person, you enjoy working on the strategic and tactic level but your ‘can do’ attitude, problem solving skills and pragmatic mindset also ensures that you get things done! You are result-oriented, know how to motivate people to work towards a common goal, and you are not afraid to challenge status quo. In addition, you are a service minded individual, whose focus is on reaching targets via collaboration.

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. Please note that due to summer holidays, you may experience a delay in our response. We will review all incoming CVs and applications latest in beginning of August.

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

Additional location:

• Industrivej 12 Østbirk

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