Engineer for Industrial Product Development
Do you have a genuine interest in industrial product development and new technology?
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 genuine interest in industrial product development and new technology? And are you experienced within development and construction of isolating glass units and components? In addition, would you like to be part of a company that leads the market in sustainable indoor living? Then this position might be the next step in your career.
Your challenges
You will participate in optimisation projects related to existing isolating glass units for VELUX roof windows. Through the projects you will work closely with other development teams and production sites in the VELUX Group and you will get a unique opportunity to follow the optimisations from early idea to production.
Your primary tasks will be to:
- Run cost and quality projects according to our stage gate process
- Participate in idea generation sessions and cost out activities through value engineering
- Coordinate tasks for our pane system within construction, production, technology and market
- Coordinate test running
- Make updates of item lists and the production basis
- Perform 3D construction notation including
You will be joining a strong team of engineers and constructors focusing on quality and cost optimisations of existing VELUX products. Our team is based in Denmark (Østbirk) close to Horsens and the E45 motorway.
Your qualifications
We expect that you are an engineer - maybe a construction engineer - or that you have a similar relevant technical education. Preferably you have a couple of years of experience with isolating glass units or glass product development and construction, but this is not a requirement if you have flair for technique and that you would thrive on working with development and construction of isolating glass units, glass and components.
Feeling at home in a project oriented development organisation, your strong point is your great interest in identifying new solutions that create business value. You drive innovation and it is natural for you to seek new ways. You are a creative ‘out of the box’ thinker with a good eye for details, observing deadlines - always with a focus on how to create value for the business through quality, agreements and deadlines.
As a person, you are a team player with a constructive mind-set motivated by finding the best solutions in close collaboration with production and technology development. People often describe you as result oriented with a natural interest for ensuring progress. On top of that, you have an open and forthcoming manner and you collaborate easily with people around you at all levels.
Proficiency in 3D CAD and Microsoft Office is necessary as well as fluency in English both verbally and in writing.
Your opportunities
You will join our product development team and through participation in many challenging and different tasks you will have an opportunity to influence your own job. In addition to operating at a highly professional level, our team is characterised by an informal tone and a healthy sense of humour with respect for each other both as team players and as individuals.
We work as one team to reach our ambitious results. The international setting is in our DNA, we believe in empowering people, and we support this through sharing knowledge, delegating responsibility and continuous employee development.
We are a strong value based company where commitment, thoroughness and mutual respect are among the core values and teamwork and professionalism is essential to the way we work. Application and contact If you have any questions regarding the position, please contact Poul-Erik Andersen, Senior Manager Product Care & Cost on +45 7669 3600/+45 2120 8603 or find us online at http://www.velux.com.
We look forward to receiving your application and CV in Danish or English as soon as possible and no later than 20 August 2017. First round of interviews will be conducted on 25 August and second round on 29 August - both interviews will be in Østbirk.
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