Laboratory Quality Manager Specialist

1001 LEGO System A/S; Billund; Hybride; DKK 650 000 - 850 000; Plein temps

Avantages offerts par ce poste

Family Care Leave

Life and disability insurance

Wellbeing resources

Colleague Discount

Bonus scheme

Résumé du poste

LEGO Group is seeking a Laboratory Quality Manager Specialist in Billund. You will maintain and improve quality systems, calibrate equipment, and drive data-led improvements across the Materials Laboratory, collaborating with technicians, method owners and specialists.

The role combines quality stewardship with practical improvements, balancing compliance, efficiency and curiosity in a hybrid work model with in-office and remote days. No relocation offered.

Qualifications

• Maintained and improved laboratory quality systems, procedures, standards and documentation.
• Ensured laboratory equipment function and reliability through a structured calibration and maintenance programme.
• Solving nonconformities and operational problems using data and systematic approaches to identify root causes.
• Analyzed laboratory performance data using statistical methods to support investigations and improvements.
• Created alignment among technicians, method owners and specialists around standards and ways of working.
• Embedded quality or workflow improvements into everyday laboratory practice across functions.

Responsabilités

• Improve processes for equipment management and monitor method and equipment performance with method owners and super users.
• Own selected laboratory quality processes and improvement initiatives.
• Strengthen workflows, documentation and calibration practices across the lab.
• Balance quality, compliance, service levels and efficiency across varied testing activities.
• Leverage data, digitalization or automation to prepare the lab for future needs.

Connaissances

Quality systems

Equipment maintenance

Root cause analysis

Statistical analysis

Cross-functional alignment

Workflow improvements

Outils

Infrared spectroscopy

Color measurement

Differential scanning calorimetry

Rheology

Microscopy

Equipment suppliers collaboration

Structured problem solving

Automation

Digital tools

Description du poste

Job Description Just imagine turning laboratory data, quality processes, and practical improvements into stronger, more reliable ways of working. Then make it real.

About the role

As our Laboratory Quality Manager Specialist, you'll share responsibility for maintaining, developing and improving quality systems, workflows and operational standards within the Materials Laboratory. You'll work alongside another Laboratory Quality Manager Specialist, laboratory technicians and method owners, keeping processes robust, compliant and ready for future business needs. You'll combine quality stewardship with practical improvement, using laboratory data and close collaboration to strengthen equipment management, methods, and workflows. Please note: This position is based in Billund, Denmark. Our flexible working model allows employees to work 3 days/week in-office and 2 days/week from home. However, some teams have higher demand for in-office. There is no relocation for this role.

Required Qualifications

• Maintained and improved laboratory quality systems, procedures, standards, and documentation.
• Ensured laboratory equipment function and reliability through a structured qualification, maintenance and calibration programme.
• Solved nonconformities and operational problems using data and systematic approaches to identify root causes and sustainable solutions.
• Analysed laboratory performance data using statistical methods to support investigations, validations, and improvements.
• Created alignment among laboratory technicians, method owners and technical specialists around laboratory standards and ways of working.
• Embedded quality or workflow improvements into everyday laboratory practice by working across functions.

Preferred Qualifications

• Applied material and/or ink testing methods such as infrared spectroscopy, colour measurement, differential scanning calorimetry, rheology, or microscopy.
• Collaborated with equipment suppliers, service and calibration providers and during equipment lifetime.
• Improved laboratory workflows or equipment processes through structured problem solving.
• Used digital tools, automation, and laboratory data to improve laboratory workflows, monitor performance, and support data-led decision-making.

What you’ll build

Improve processes for laboratory equipment management and develop a system to monitor performance of methods and equipment to identify improvement needs in collaboration with method owners and super users. Take ownership of selected laboratory quality processes and improvement initiatives. Strengthen workflows, documentation, equipment management, and process monitoring. Balance quality, compliance, service levels and efficiency across varied testing activities. Help prepare our laboratory for the future by spotting opportunities for improved use of data, digitalization or automation. If you've worked in a role where you maintained and matured a laboratory quality system by making lasting improvements, you'll feel at home here. What matters most is balancing operational needs with quality requirements and turning improvements into everyday laboratory practice.

Life on the team

You’ll join the Materials Test & Analysis team within Materials, Engineering & Quality in Operations. We test and analyze materials used for LEGO® elements, including polymers, masterbatches, decoration inks, and additive manufacturing powders. We work closely in our Billund laboratory, with a hybrid rhythm where the work allows. Curiosity, learning agility and a continuous improvement mindset will help you grow your knowledge and strengthen how we work.

What success looks like

You’ll become a trusted partner who can independently own agreed areas of the laboratory quality system, including equipment management while improving performance and consistency in the laboratory. As the team strengthens processes, digitalization, performance monitoring and data-led decision-making, you’ll play your part by working closely with technicians, method owners, material specialists, equipment suppliers, and calibration colleagues.

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.

Your workplace

Your workplace will be the office, store or factory specified in this advert.

Hybrid Working

Our hybrid work model, Best of Both offers you the option of flexibility to work from home up to two days per week. Your People Leader will discuss the principles of the model, including how this option applies to your role and team.

Learn more about our benefits, culture and workplace experience here.

Children are our role models. Their curiosity, creativity and imagination inspire everything we do.

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. Thank you for sharing our global commitment to Children’s Rights.

Just imagine building your dream career. Then make it real. Join the LEGO® team today.

Our founder Ole Kirk Kristiansen made his first wooden toy in 1932. He persevered against the odds until his business was a success. Constantly innovating, never compromising. Building, rebuilding, and striving for the best. It is this resilience and permanent sense of renewal that drives us forward. We are never still. We will always be creating, inventing, andhaving fun. Build your career brick by brick and play your part in continuing our mission to “inspire and develop the builders of tomorrow”.