Senior Industrialization Lead

Asgaard Recruitment ApS; Helsinge; Hybrid; DKK 900,000 - 1,200,000; Full time

Job summary

Anticimex Innovation Center is seeking a Senior Industrialization Lead to bring smart, connected products from prototype to scalable manufacturing. You will bridge product development and production, overseeing design-for-manufacturing, process validation, and transfer to volume production.

You will partner with mechanics, electronics, firmware, and quality teams, driving data-driven improvements and robust manufacturing processes while coordinating with contract manufacturers and internal

Qualifications

• 7–10+ years in industrialization or manufacturing engineering for electromechanical or IoT hardware.
• Strong experience with DFM/DFA, validation, and ramp-up.
• Experience with test development and production documentation.
• Experience with root-cause analysis methods (e.g., 5 Whys, 8D).
• Proven collaboration with contract manufacturers and suppliers.
• Familiarity with Stage-Gate product development and quality controls.
• Professional English proficiency.

Responsibilities

• Own industrialization activities from concept through pilot to volume production.
• Lead DFM/DFA reviews with mechanics, electronics, and firmware teams.
• Plan transfer, qualification, and ramp-up with production and CM partners.
• Manage development builds, planning, and reporting of status and risks.
• Develop production test strategies, fixtures, and work instructions.
• Drive KPI discussions for yield and end-of-line testing.
• Lead root-cause analysis and corrective actions for production issues.
• Support Stage-Gate deliverables and risk assessments.
• Collaborate with cross-functional teams and suppliers to improve manufacturability.

Skills

Senior experience

DFM/DFA

Production ramp-up

Production transfer

Root-cause analysis

Contract manufacturers

Stage-Gate

Quality methods

English proficiency

Tools

PFMEA

SPC

PPAP

ISO 9001

PLM/PDM

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.