Automation & Comfort Technology Specialist
Do you have a passion for daylight control, home automation, energy and indoor climate?
At the VELUX Group, we give you the chance to grow. To shape your own career. To work in an international environment. To be part of a company that leads the market in sustainable indoor living. We offer you a world of opportunities - if you have the ability and the drive to take them.
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Do you have a passion for daylight control, home automation, energy and indoor climate? Do you have the abilities and desire to develop and execute technology strategies? And do you want to influence important solutions with high impact on the VELUX Group business? Then this could be your next career move.
We are looking for an experienced Technology Specialist who would like to take up this challenging and developing position within the area of Automation & Comfort.
Your challenges
You will be part of our technology organisation with the overall purpose to investigate and select new technology concepts enabling them to be used in innovation, cost optimisation and new feature development within products and manufacturing technology.
Your key areas of responsibility will be to:
- Develop and execute a technology strategy for the area Automation & Comfort
- Build technology driven business cases
- Drive cross-organisational technology projects with the purpose of ensuring quality, optimising cost and creating new unique product features
- Identify essential competencies and ensure robustness of key manufacturing processes
- Develop and maintain specifications and test requirements for materials and components
- Ensure durability and functionality of base materials and components
- Support activities in product innovation, cost reduction, purchase and production using the knowledge base
Mobility is essential and approx. 40-80 travel days a year must be expected. Part time home office within Europe is possible.
Your qualifications
It is a prerequisite to have minimum 5 years of technical and industrial experience from working in an international company. You hold an education of high technical level and you can demonstrate strong business acumen.
Working experience from SMART windows, home automation, Internet of Things, electronics/photovoltaics or ventilation in a world-class development environment will be crucial for success.
You think business oriented and you deliver results of high quality. You are an out-going team player, possess great drive, and have a holistic, yet structured and systematic approach to tasks.
We expect your working style to be persistent and independent, and you know how to create and implement workable solutions to problems across technologies, processes and people.
You have a global mind-set and enjoy building cross-border relations across various organisational and professional levels, and you know how to motivate and influence others.
You hold excellent communication skills, and you are fluent in English both orally and in writing. Additional language proficiencies such as German and Danish are an advantage.
Your opportunities
This position gives you the opportunity to build up close relationships with our product development team and production facilities in Denmark as well as external relations with universities, development centres and global industries to develop the knowledge base in the VELUX Group further.
In addition to operating at a highly professional level, our technology organisation is characterised by an informal tone and a healthy sense of humour. We work as one team to reach ambitious results, sharing knowledge and investing in people who strive to make a difference.
The VELUX Group offers an alternating and challenging position in a positive working climate with great opportunities of influencing your own development. We are a global company and market leader in our industry and we work in a dynamic and international environment where mutual respect and commitment are among our core values.
Application and contact
For further information, please contact Sverre Simonsen at +45 2498 2261.
We are looking forward to receiving your application as soon as possible at no later than 16. October 2015. Applications will be evaluated continuously and the position will be filled, when the right candidate has been found.
Application deadline: 16. oktober 2015
Work place: Østbirk or Skjern
For more information: Sverre Simonsen +45 2498 2261
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