Associate Specialist, Continuous Improvement, Lystrup

Terma A/S; Aarhus; On-site; DKK 700,000 - 900,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

International Environment

Flexible Working Hours

Comprehensive Benefits Package

Well-being Perks

Social and Professional Events

Competence networking across Terma

Job summary

Terma A/S is seeking a Continuous Improvement Specialist to drive maturity across a global organization. You will lead structured improvements, analyze key business areas, and embed new practices through training and coaching.

Travel to Grenaa, Darmstadt, or Leiden may be required as you collaborate with colleagues worldwide. You will work in a small team of Lean and Six Sigma experts, focusing on accountability, data-driven decisions, and lasting value across the organization.

Qualifications

• Bachelor’s or Master’s degree in Engineering, Process Engineering, or Value Chain Management.
• Lean and/or Six Sigma certification, preferred from automotive industry.
• Coaching experience from previous work.
• Experience applying continuous improvement methodologies in an international environment.
• Fluent in English; Danish or German an advantage.

Responsibilities

• Identify and mitigate operational and compliance risks globally.
• Drive proactive, structured improvement and strengthen organizational resilience; lead root-cause problem solving and ensure effective corrective and preventive actions.
• Build and standardize continuous improvement capabilities across the organization.
• Monitor performance and maturity to enable transparency and data-driven decisions.
• Establish closed-loop learning and ensure insights are captured and applied.
• Foster a culture of accountability, transparency, and continuous improvement.

Skills

Coaching experience

Stakeholder engagement

Analytical mindset

English proficiency

Team player

Education

Bachelor’s or Master’s degree in Engineering / Process Engineering / Value Chain Management

Job description

Requisition ID 1205 - Posted - Lystrup - Denmark - Full Time - Associate

Would you like to drive structured improvements in a global organization? In this role, you will help strengthen continuous improvement practices and support lasting changes across the business. Come and join us!

We are facing an exciting future with considerable growth and demanding changes, as we deliver advanced technologies and mission critical solutions for the defense and aerospace industry. Our systems provide security for people on land, at sea and in the air. Therefore, we are looking for a Continuous Specialist to become part of this journey and contribute to our overall purpose – securing people through advanced technology.

Your role in our team

As our new Continuous Improvement Specialist, you will help drive continuous improvement maturity across the organization and ensure that improvements are executed, implemented and anchored. In this role, you will analyze and develop key business areas to create measurable improvements and support the consistent application of continuous improvement methods across a global setup.

You will also play an important part in embedding continuous improvement capabilities through training, coaching, and stakeholder engagement, helping the organization adopt new practices and ways of working.

This role also includes some travel to other locations, such as Grenaa, Darmstadt, or Leiden, giving you the opportunity to work closely with colleagues across the organization.

You will become part of a small and diverse team of three colleagues with strong expertise in Lean and Six Sigma, including Master Black Belt capabilities. The team works in a collaborative and globally oriented environment, with a shared focus on driving continuous improvement through knowledge sharing, best practices, and strong professional expertise.

How you will make a meaningful contribution

Your key responsibilities include:

• Identify and mitigate operational and compliance risks globally
• Drive proactive, structured improvement and strengthen organizational resilience- Lead root-cause problem solving and ensure effective corrective and preventive actions
• Build and standardize continuous improvement capabilities across the organization
• Monitor performance and maturity to enable transparency and data-driven decisions
• Establish closed-loop learning and ensure insights are captured and applied
• Foster a culture of accountability, transparency, and continuous improvement

Bring your world class expertise into play

You are fluent in English both in writing and verbal at a professional level. Danish or German is an advantage but not a requirement. Moreover, we are also looking for a new colleague with the following qualifications:

• You hold a Bachelor´s degree or Master´s degree in Engineering, Process Engineering, or Value Chain Management.
• You have a Lean and/or Six Sigma certification, preferred from automotive industry.
• You have coaching experience from your previous work.
• You are a teamplayer and is used to working within a team who drives changes.
• You have experience applying continuous improvement methodologies in an international environment
• You are confident in engaging and influencing stakeholders and helping them understand the value of adopting continuous improvement practices

As a person, you are structured, proactive, and motivated by driving change and helping improvements become embedded in the organization. You have a strong sense of accountability and enjoy working with continuous improvements that create lasting value.

You thrive in a collaborative and globally oriented environment, where knowledge sharing, consistency, and shared best practices are important. With your analytical mindset and positive approach, you contribute to developing new ways of working and strengthening improvement maturity across the organization.

We arean international company representing world-class expertise, delivering complex and high-tech products. We value our colleagues and our meaningful contributions to securing people through advanced technology. You will also experience that we have a strong focus on your development, teaching you useful new competences and further strengthening current ones, both professionally and personally. Our company culture is autonomous and engaging, and we acknowledge the importance of flexibility in a great working environment.

When joining Terma, we promise that you will experience: Great people, challenging tasks, world-class expertise, and meaningful contribution in your daily work.

Benefits at Terma

• International Environment: Explore great teamwork and professional sparring with colleagues around the world.
• Flexible Working Hours: Enjoy the opportunity to work flexibly and the option to work from home up to two days per week. Internet connection at home is paid for by Terma.
• Comprehensive Benefits Package: Receive a 10% paid pension along with a beneficial health care and insurance package. Enjoy discounts from various business partners.
• Well-being Perks: Opportunity to enroll in our on-site massage-offer at our locations in Denmark.
• Social and Professional Events: We have an active staff association that arranges a variety of social activities and events to bring all of our colleagues together.
• Competence networking across professional experts in Terma: Professional presentations and knowledge sharing across the organization.

We are dedicated to fostering a diverse, equitable, inclusive, and welcoming workplace. Our commitment to DEIB (Diversity, Equity, Inclusion, and Belonging) means we actively value and celebrate unique backgrounds, perspectives, and experiences. We strive to create an environment where all employees have equal opportunities to succeed, feel respected and valued, and experience a true sense of belonging.

To support an unbiased evaluation process, we kindly encourage applicants to omit personal details such as photos and age from their applications.

Do you have any questions regarding the position?

Feel free to contact Hiring Manager on e-mail: [e-mail]

Bear in mind, that we need you to confirm that you can obtain a security clearance by the Danish Defense Intelligence Service, and that all adults in your household are not posing any risk to the related risk-evaluation. This entails among other issues:

• That you have as a minimum stayed within NATO/EU/MISWG countries for the last 7 years only interrupted by short stays abroad, and
• That you have not committed serious criminal offences

Terma group has headquarters in Denmark and is a high-tech company developing products and systems for defense and non-defense security applications, including command and control systems, radar systems, self-protection systems for aircraft, space technology, and aerostructures for the aircraft industry. TERMA | Allies in innovation