Senior project manager - for end-to-end projects within our mechatronic area

Your challenges

As our new Senior Project Manager, you will be located at our modern VELUX location in Skjern or Østbirk, and be part of the Drive Units and Controls team. In the team 14 direct colleagues are looking forward to welcome you, and you will be part of, and have a great deal of interaction across the overall Mechatronics and Digital Modules department with more than 50 colleagues. Topics are discussed in a casual tone and with a high degree of interaction between you and your colleagues. We have a natural focus on the technical aspects of our products, and we aim to develop innovative products and solutions in an informal and collaborative work environment.

As Senior Project Manager you will have the end-to-end responsibility of the project from the early qualification until the products are develop and are running in mass production. Depending on the complexity in your projects you will typical have the responsibility one or more project at the same time. On the larger projects, you may have one or more technical project managers dedicated to workstreams within your project, and some of your project may involve the interaction with external parties.

Moreover, your responsibility will be to:

Your qualifications

As a person, you are proactive with a can-do attitude and energy that inspires. You take the lead and motivate the whole project team on a day-to-day basis. You are open-minded, flexible, hardworking, and have a healthy sense of humour. You understand when to secure flexibility and when stability is needed – finding the right balance to be proactive and delivering on the plan, budget, and adherence to the specification.

You are a self-driven, independent person that gets your energy from goal achievements and working in a knowledge-intensive team based on collaboration and belief in higher collective work productivity. You are a great communicator with excellent verbal and written skills, and you communicate fluently in English both orally and in writing. We see it as an advantage if you speak and understand Danish.

To be successful, you need to:

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.