Process Manager (specialist) - Coating Expert

1001 LEGO System A/S; Billund; Hybrid; DKK 900,000 - 1,300,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Family Care Leave

Life and disability insurance

Wellbeing resources

Colleague discount

Bonus scheme

Hybrid work policy

Job summary

The LEGO Group in Billund, Denmark, seeks a Process Manager (Specialist) for PVD coatings to lead process development and industrialization. You will drive standardization, parameter definition, and documentation for global production, collaborating with specialists and operators to scale this evolving technology.

Based in Billund with a hybrid work rhythm, you will play a key role in transferring the technology from development to reliable production and expanding its application across LEGO

Qualifications

• Must have hands-on experience with industrial-scale coating, deposition, or surface treatment processes.
• Defined critical process parameters and translated them into stable manufacturing performance.
• Led process development, industrialization, or technology transfer initiatives.
• Delivered technical recommendations based on structured experimentation and process data.
• Communicated technical topics clearly to a broad range of stakeholders.

Responsibilities

• Lead specialist knowledge for PVD process standardization and industrialization.
• Explore process limits and identify opportunities to expand the technology's application.
• Develop process understanding, standards, and documentation for global use.
• Support the transition of a developing technology into reliable production.
• Define critical process parameters and quality requirements.
• Collaborate with specialists and operators to improve process capability and performance.
• Help establish the foundation for scaling and globalizing a new coating technology.
• Support exploration and use of similar technologies in the future.
• Be the go-to expert for PVD technology and its manufacturing integration.

Skills

Process management

Parameter optimization

Technology transfer

Data-driven decisions

Technical communication

Education

Bachelor's degree or higher in Chemical, Mechanical, Materials, or Process Engineering

Job description

Job Description

Just imagine scaling technology to bring new, shiny metalized LEGO elements to LEGO fans all over the world. Then make it real.

About the role

As our Process Manager (Specialist) - Coating Expert, you'll serve as the lead process specialist for Physical Vapor Deposition (PVD) processes, ensuring a high level of process understanding and enabling a reliable and efficient manufacturing process. You'll work closely with specialists and operators to explore the limits of the technology, expand process capability, and expand its use across the LEGO Group. This is an opportunity to help refine and globalize a new manufacturing process that creates a shiny metallic decorative effect on LEGO products. You may have gained your experience through working with PVD, CVD, thin-film technologies, or similar coating and surface engineering processes where you've developed, optimized, or industrialized manufacturing technologies. You'll combine scientific thinking with practical process development to establish a strong foundation for future production applications.

Required Qualifications

• Completed a Bachelor's degree or higher in Chemical, Mechanical, Materials, or Process Engineering
• Managed industrial-scale coating, deposition, or surface treatment processes
• Defined critical process parameters and translated them into stable manufacturing performance
• Led process development, industrialization, or technology transfer initiatives
• Delivered technical recommendations based on structured experimentation and process data
• Communicated technical topics clearly to a broad range of stakeholders

Preferred Qualifications

• Performed quality evaluation and characterization of surface coatings
• Applied Six Sigma methodologies to process optimization and problem solving

What you'll build

• Lead specialist knowledge for PVD process standardization and industrialization
• Explore process limits and identify opportunities to expand the technology's application
• Develop process understanding, standards, and documentation for global use
• Support the transition of a developing technology into reliable production
• Define critical process parameters and quality requirements
• Collaborate with specialists and operators to improve process capability and performance
• Help establish the foundation for scaling and globalizing a new coating technology
• Support exploration and use of similar technologies in the future

Life on the team

You'll join Process Foundation in Billund, a team focused on developing and safeguarding future processing technologies for the LEGO Group. We work closely together through regular collaboration, knowledge sharing, and a hybrid working rhythm. You'll have the opportunity to learn from specialists across multiple disciplines while contributing to a technology area that's still evolving. Curiosity, adaptability, clear communication, and a scientific approach to problem-solving are important for success in the team.

What success looks like

Success means becoming the go-to specialist for PVD technology, building a deep understanding of the process window and creating the standards needed for reliable, global manufacturing. Over the coming months, you'll help shape how this emerging technology is implemented, scaled, and adopted globally. You'll work closely with operators, process specialists, product development teams, manufacturing colleagues, and equipment suppliers to establish a robust and efficient production capability.

This role is based out of Billund, Denmark. Please note relocation support is not offered for this role.

What's in it for you

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

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