Quality Director

Lego Group; Denmark; On-site; DKK 1,000,000 - 1,600,000; 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 is seeking a transformational QEHS leader to define direction for quality and EHS, while building a high-performing team across sites. You will partner with site leadership and drive zero-defect culture through audits, defect elimination, and process alignment.

Based in Billund, DK, you will manage multi-million DKK budgets and lead global initiatives, including LEAN and Six-Sigma programs, with travel for global alignment.

Qualifications

• Experience leading quality and safety in a large manufacturing setting.
• Knowledge of global QEHS frameworks and certifications.
• Proven ability to drive change, cost budgets, and cross-site alignment.

Responsibilities

• Set direction for quality and EHS; lead the leadership team.
• Build and motivate a diverse, future-ready team including senior leaders.
• Collaborate as a business partner to site leadership.
• Handle customer audits, complaints, and drive defect elimination.
• Align QEHS with overall business strategy; chair EHS Team Production.
• Manage a 30 million DKK cost budget and 5-10 million DKK investment budget.
• Lead global knowledge sharing, equipment development, and process alignment.

Skills

Executive leadership

Quality & EHS management

LEAN

Six-Sigma

Change management

Stakeholder management

People management

Tools

IATF 16949

ISO 9001

APQP/PPAP

VDA 6.3

Lead Auditor

Six-Sigma Black Belt

Certified Safety Professional

Job description

Job Description Join us as a transformational leader, influencing innovation height within The LEGO Group. Play a pivotal role in making impactful decisions across diverse topics, integrating innovation with mass production excellence, and work alongside talented teams within The LEGO Group, both locally and globally, fostering partnerships that inspire growth.

Core Responsibilities

• Set and define direction for quality and EHS, driving the leadership team in that direction.
• Build a strong, diverse team that are fit for the future, while developing & motivating team members, including senior leaders and specialists, to foster a high-performing organization.
• Collaborate as a strong leadership team member, acting as a business partner to the site leadership team.
• Handle customer audits, complaints, and drive defect elimination to create a zero-defect culture.
• Align QEHS initiatives and organizational development with overall business strategy.
• Be the EHS Chairman of EHS Team Production, and run Q-EHS wheel.
• Manage a cost budget of 30 million DKK and an investment budget of 5-10 million DKK.
• Lead global initiatives for knowledge sharing, equipment development, and process alignment across sites.

Play Your Part in Our Team Succeeding

Join our Billund Moulding and Qualifying team, consisting of a dedicated team of senior leaders, operating innovative moulding machines, producing LEGO® bricks at incredibly high levels of efficiency and quality. You’ll have the unique opportunity to showcase your skills in change management, continuous improvement, and stakeholder management. You’ll influence innovation across our global platforms and play a key role in integrating innovation with mass production excellence. Collaborate with teams locally and globally to drive decision‑making and innovation.

Do You Have What It Takes?

The ideal candidate has experience managing quality/safety in a factory setting, with deep knowledge of quality processes in large‑scale manufacturing. They have several years of experience as a transformational leader with the ability to lead change, manage necessary transformations, and streamline operations effectively. Moreover, they come with:

• Industrial experience within manufacturing (ideally from automotive)
• Expert knowledge of supply chain management and certifications like IATF 16949, ISO 9001, APQP, PPAP, VDA 6.3
• Lead Auditor, Six-Sigma Black Belt, and Certified Safety Professional
• Several years experience working with LEAN, and working on failure analysis and problem solving
• Strong people management skills and experience with org development
• Excellent communication skills, with the ability to structure clear documents and presentations, translating complex topics into concise and compelling messages for senior collaborators.
• Ability to travel 10+ days yearly to secure global alignment.

The position is based in Billund, DK and relocation support is not offered for this role.

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.
• 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 and Culture

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.

Our Story

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, and having fun. Build your career brick by brick and play your part in continuing our mission to “inspire and develop the builders of tomorrow”.