Engineering Delivery & Operational Excellence Partner (Senior Manager)

the LEGO Group; Billund; On-site; Confidential; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Family Care Leave

Insurances

Wellbeing

Colleague Discount

Bonus

Workplace

Job summary

The LEGO Group in Denmark is seeking an Engineering Delivery & Operational Excellence Partner to embed Lean thinking across MD&I and E&W. You will help leaders improve performance, translate strategy into execution and build sustainable capability.

You will collaborate with senior leaders across sites and programmes, guiding delivery systems and governance to raise clarity, alignment and delivery results in a globally connected engineering organisation.

Qualifications

• Experience in Lean, Operational Excellence or Continuous Improvement within engineering, manufacturing or industrial environments.
• Strong understanding of operational or engineering delivery systems.
• Experience influencing leaders and teams without direct authority.
• Strong facilitation, coaching and problem-solving skills.
• Experience working in complex, cross-functional organisations.
• The ability to connect strategic intent with operational execution.

Responsibilities

• Deploy and embed the Engineering Delivery System across engineering and manufacturing environments.
• Apply Lean and Operational Excellence principles to improve performance and delivery outcomes.
• Strengthen leadership routines, governance and performance management practices.
• Facilitate structured problem-solving and continuous improvement activities.
• Translate strategic priorities into measurable actions and results.
• Support leaders in building sustainable capability and operational discipline.
• Drive behavioural and cultural change that delivers long-term impact.

Skills

Lean

Operational Excellence

Continuous Improvement

Facilitation

Coaching

Problem-solving

Cross-functional collaboration

Leadership influence

Job description

Job Description

Help improve how engineering is delivered in practice

Do you enjoy helping organisations improve performance, strengthen leadership routines and turn strategy into execution?

We are looking for an Engineering Delivery & Operational Excellence Partner to work with leaders across Manufacturing Design & Implementation (MD&I) and the broader Engineering & Workplace (E&W) organisation. In this role, you will help improve how engineering is delivered across complex manufacturing and engineering environments by embedding Lean thinking, structured ways of working and strong performance management practices.

You will play a key role in deploying the Engineering Delivery System, ensuring that teams, sites and programmes operate with greater clarity, alignment and consistency.

Core Responsibilities

• Deploy and embed the Engineering Delivery System across engineering and manufacturing environments
• Apply Lean and Operational Excellence principles to improve performance and delivery outcomes
• Strengthen leadership routines, governance and performance management practices
• Facilitate structured problem-solving and continuous improvement activities
• Translate strategic priorities into measurable actions and results
• Support leaders in building sustainable capability and operational discipline
• Drive behavioural and cultural change that delivers long‑term impact

Play your part in our team succeeding

You will join the Engineering Systems & Performance Team, a global capability focused on improving how engineering is delivered across E&W. Working across sites, programmes and leadership teams, you will help bridge the gap between strategy and execution, ensuring consistent ways of working and stronger delivery performance across the organisation. This is a role for someone who enjoys working where change happens — partnering with leaders, solving real problems and helping teams perform at their best.

Do you have what it takes?

We are looking for someone who combines operational credibility with transformation experience.

• Experience in Lean, Operational Excellence or Continuous Improvement within engineering, manufacturing or industrial environments
• A strong understanding of operational or engineering delivery systems
• Experience influencing leaders and teams without direct authority
• Strong facilitation, coaching and problem‑solving skills
• Experience working in complex, cross‑functional organisations
• The ability to connect strategic intent with operational execution

Nice to have

• Experience within manufacturing, automation, logistics or industrial engineering environments
• Exposure to large‑scale transformation programmes
• Experience implementing management systems or structured operating models

What you can expect

• The opportunity to work directly with senior leaders across Engineering & Workplace
• A highly collaborative and international environment
• Meaningful influence on how engineering is delivered across E&W
• The chance to help shape sustainable improvements in performance, collaboration and delivery outcomes

Please note that we do not provide relocation support for this position.

What’s in it for you?

Here is what you can expect

• Family Care Leave - We offer enhanced paid leave options for those important times.
• Insurances – All colleagues are covered by our life and disability insurance which provides protection and peace of mind.
• Wellbeing - We want our people to feel well and thrive. We offer resources and benefits to nurture physical and mental wellbeing along with opportunities to build community and inspire creativity.
• Colleague Discount – We know you'll love to build, so from day 1 you will qualify for our generous colleague discount.
• Bonus - We do our best work to succeed together. When goals are reached and if eligible, you'll be rewarded through our bonus scheme.
• Workplace - When you join the team you'll be assigned a primary workplace location i.e. one of our Offices, stores or factories. Our hybrid work policy means an average of 3 days per week in the office. The hiring team will discuss the policy and role eligibility with you during the recruitment process.

Children are our role models. Their curiosity, creativity and imagination inspire everything we do. We strive to create a diverse, dynamic and inclusive culture of play at the LEGO Group, where everyone feels safe, valued and they belong.

The LEGO Group is highly committed to equal employment opportunity and equal pay and seeks to encourage applicants from all backgrounds (eg. sex, gender identity or expression, race/ethnicity, national origin, sexual orientation, disability, age and religion) to apply for roles in our team.

The LEGO Group is fully committed to Children’s Rights and Child Wellbeing across the globe. Candidates offered positions with high engagement with children are required to take part in Child Safeguarding Background Screening, as a condition of the offer.

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