Senior Industrialization Lead

Asgaard Recruitment ApS; Helsinge; Hybrid; DKK 900,000 - 1,100,000; Full time

Job summary

Anticimex Innovation Center seeks a Senior Industrialization Lead to drive the transition of smart, connected products from development into robust, scalable manufacturing. You will bridge product development and production, enabling reliable, efficient scale‑up and large‑volume manufacturing.

You will lead cross‑functional efforts across design-for-manufacturing, process validation, and test development, while maintaining strong collaboration with contract manufacturers and EMS partners.

Qualifications

• 7–10+ years of experience in industrialization, NPI, or manufacturing engineering for electromechanical or IoT hardware products.
• Strong experience with DFM/DFA, process validation, and production ramp-up.
• Experience with production test development, test fixtures, and work instructions.
• Experience with root-cause analysis methods such as 5 Whys, 8D, or similar.
• Experience working closely with contract manufacturers and production partners.
• Experience working in structured product development models such as Stage‑Gate, PFMEA, SPC, PPAP.
• Professional proficiency in English.

Responsibilities

• Own and drive industrialization activities for smart, connected products, from concept through pilot and into volume production.
• Lead design-for-manufacturing and design-for-assembly reviews with mechanics, electronics, and firmware colleagues.
• Plan and execute production transfer, process qualification, and ramp-up activities with production and contract manufacturers.
• Take ownership of development build activities, including planning, execution, cross-functional coordination, and reporting build status, risks, and outcomes to stakeholders.
• Develop and improve production test strategies, test fixtures, and work instructions.
• Contribute with reporting from production testing and aim to collect test data from EMS partners and our own lines.
• Support establishing clear KPI’s for production yield based on end-of-line testing.
• Drive structured root-cause analysis and corrective actions for production and quality issues.
• Contribute to Stage-Gate execution, including industrialization deliverables, risk assessments, and gate readiness.
• Drive continuous improvement of yield, cost, and manufacturability for products in production.
• Collaborate closely with mechanics, electronics, firmware, quality, supply chain, and external manufacturing partners.
• Become a key technical voice in industrialization to raise engineering standards and ensure manufacturability at scale.

Skills

Industrialization

NPI

Manufacturing engineering

DFM

DFA

Root-cause analysis

Contract manufacturers

Stage-Gate

PFMEA

SPC

PPAP

English proficiency

Tools

Test development

Test fixtures

Work instructions

Job description

On behalf of our client, Anticimex Innovation Center, Asgaard Recruitment is seeking a Senior Industrialization Lead to strengthen the industrialization discipline and drive the transition of smart, connected products from development into robust, scalable manufacturing.

Anticimex is a global leader in modern pest control and prevention. At Anticimex Innovation Center, ideas move from sketch to prototype to launched smart devices that transform pest control into a data-driven and more sustainable industry.

The role

As Senior Industrialization Lead, you will take a central role in bringing physical products where mechanics, electronics, and firmware come together from prototype and pilot into stable, scalable, high-quality production.

The role combines hands-on industrialization work with technical leadership. You will help set the professional standard for industrialization, support task coordination within projects, and contribute to stronger engineering practices across design-for-manufacturing, process validation, release discipline, root-cause analysis, testing, documentation, and change management.

A key part of the role will be to strengthen the link between product development and production, ensuring that new and existing products can be manufactured reliably, efficiently, and at scale. Initially, much of the focus will be on improving and stabilizing production of current products, while over time the role will increasingly include new product introductions and larger scale-up projects.

There will be close cooperation with quality engineers on assembling and interpreting data from production and production testing.

The position is primarily based in Helsinge, close to production, with at least one day per week in Bagsværd to stay closely connected with the development teams.

Your key responsibilities

You will:

Own and drive industrialization activities for smart, connected products, from concept through pilot and into volume production

Lead design-for-manufacturing and design-for-assembly (DFM/DFA) reviews together with mechanics, electronics, and firmware colleagues

Plan and execute production transfer, process qualification, and ramp-up activities together with production and contract manufacturers

Take ownership of development build activities, including planning, execution, cross-functional coordination, and reporting build status, risks, and outcomes to project stakeholders and management

Develop and improve production test strategies, test fixtures, and work instructions

Contribute with reporting from production testing, where the vision is to collect test data from all EMS partners and our own production lines.

Support the establishing of clear KPI’s for production yield based e.g. on end-of-line testing

Drive structured root-cause analysis and corrective actions for production and quality issues

Contribute to Stage-Gate execution, including industrialization deliverables, risk assessments, and gate readiness

Drive continuous improvement of yield, cost, and manufacturability for products in production

Collaborate closely with mechanics, electronics, firmware, quality, supply chain, and external manufacturing partners

You will become a key technical voice in the industrialization discipline, helping raise the engineering standard and ensuring that products are designed not only to work, but to be manufactured reliably at scale.

Who you are

You are an experienced industrialization engineer with deep technical expertise and a strong interest in taking physical products from prototype to reliable, scalable production. You enjoy hands‑on problem‑solving close to the production floor, structured process work, and turning technical findings into robust, manufacturable solutions.

You likely bring:

7–10+ years of experience in industrialization, NPI (new product introduction), or manufacturing engineering for electromechanical or IoT hardware products

Strong experience with DFM/DFA, process validation, and production ramp‑up

Experience with production test development, test fixtures, and work instructions

Experience with root‑cause analysis methods such as 5 Whys, 8D, or similar

Experience working closely with contract manufacturers and production partners

Experience working in structured product development models such as Stage‑Gate

Knowledge of quality and process control methods (e.g. PFMEA, SPC, PPAP)

Professional proficiency in English

It is an advantage if you have experience with SMT/PCBA assembly processes, injection molding or sheet‑metal industrialization, ISO 9001, PDM/PLM systems, supplier quality management, or Lean/Six Sigma.

Why Anticimex Innovation Center

Anticimex Innovation Center is at a pivotal moment. Moving from a fast‑moving scale‑up approach toward a more professional and scalable product‑development organization, without losing agility.

Today, Anticimex has around 600,000 connected devices deployed globally, creating both strong proof of success and a need to further mature engineering practices, product robustness, and long‑term ownership.

You will join an organization with strong ambitions, short decision paths, and real opportunities to influence how products are designed, improved, tested, documented, and industrialized. You will help raise the technical level of the industrialization discipline and play an important part in building more scalable in‑house development capabilities.

Is this you?

If you are motivated by industrialization, scaling up production of connected hardware, technical problem‑solving, and the opportunity to help shape the next generation of intelligent pest control solutions, we would like to hear from you.

We review applications continuously and conduct interviews on an ongoing basis.