Technical Project Manager

VELUX; Skjern; On-site; DKK 900,000 - 1,200,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

International travel

Exposure to global factory network

Job summary

VELUX seeks a Technical Project Manager to drive development and implementation projects across Danish and international factories, ensuring aligned, high-quality production setups that scale across our global manufacturing network.

You will lead cross-functional teams, assess risks, prepare budgets and business cases, and champion Design for Manufacturing to secure future-ready production sites. International travel is expected as part of this role.

Qualifications

• Hold a technical degree.
• Several years of practical project management experience in a technical environment with multiple workstreams.
• Strong planning and coordination skills; comfortable delegating and following up.
• Solid technical insight and understanding of production processes; experience in electronic manufacturing is an advantage.
• Communicate in English, verbally and in writing. Danish is an advantage but not required.

Responsibilities

• Plan, facilitate, and coordinate project activities across Engineering, Production, Quality, Purchasing, and Logistics.
• Drive development and implementation projects across both Danish and international factories.
• Guide and motivate project teams, ensuring alignment, progress, and timely delivery.
• Conduct risk assessments, mitigation planning, and thorough follow-up on project activities.
• Build commitment across the organisation through clear communication, involvement, and constructive feedback.
• Prepare budgets, resource requirements, investment analyses, business cases, and process setups.
• Collaborate with product development to secure strong Design for Manufacturing principles.
• Support ramp up, maturation, and transfer of manufacturing setups to other production sites.

Skills

Project management

Cross-functional collaboration

Stakeholder management

Planning and coordination

English communication

Electronic manufacturing knowledge

Education

Technical degree

Job description

Step into a role where your technical insight and project leadership skills help shape the manufacturing technologies of tomorrow. As our new Technical Project Manager, you will play a central part in ensuring that innovative products reach customers through robust, efficient, and future‑ready production setups across our global factory network.

You will join our Centre of Excellence for Electronics, consisting of 4 project managers and a few specialists based in Skjern. The team is responsible for specifying, developing, and delivering production technologies to our global manufacturing network. Centre of Excellence Electronics main responsibility is to mature new technologies and build bridge from Product & Innovation to manufacturing area.

As Technical Project Manager, you will work across Danish and international factories, driving development and implementation projects that ensure aligned, high‑quality, and scalable production setups. You will collaborate closely with colleagues in Purchasing, Quality, Logistics, Engineering, and Production. You will be a central part in ensuring that our factories are ready to accommodate new product launches, product modifications, and continuous process improvements.

Together with your colleagues, you will help secure manufacturing excellence across sites, contributing to the consistency, stability, and future readiness of the VELUX supply chain.

What we offer

In this role, you will manage a wide range of technical projects across Electronics. You will transform new product concepts into mature production setups, implement technological upgrades, and help transfer and scale solutions across factories. You will act as the connector between product development, technology, and production, ensuring that new technologies and products are introduced efficiently and with high production robustness.

More specifically, your tasks will be to:

• Plan, facilitate, and coordinate project activities across Engineering, Production, Quality, Purchasing, and Logistics
• Drive development and implementation projects across both Danish and international factories
• Guide and motivate project teams, ensuring alignment, progress, and timely delivery
• Conduct risk assessments, mitigation planning, and thorough follow-up on project activities
• Build commitment across the organisation through clear communication, involvement, and constructive feedback
• Prepare budgets, resource requirements, investment analyses, business cases, and process setups
• Collaborate with product development to secure strong Design for Manufacturing principles.
• Support ramp up, maturation, and transfer of manufacturing setups to other production sites.

International travel of approximately 10–20 days per year, primarily within Europe, should be expected.

What you will bring

You are a structured, proactive, and collaborative Project Manager who takes ownership and delivers consistently. You thrive in a highly technical environment and enjoy working across factory sites, functions, and cultures. Your curious mindset and analytical approach enable you to challenge existing processes and contribute to continuous improvements, always with the goal of creating business value.

Through strong communication and stakeholder management skills, you build trust and ensure alignment across teams. When priorities shift, you remain adaptable, focused, and solution oriented.

Moreover, we expect that you:

• Hold a technical degree
• Bring several years of practical project management experience in a technical environment with multiple workstreams
• Have strong planning and coordination skills and are comfortable delegating and following up
• Possess solid technical insight and an understanding of production processes; experience in electronic manufacturing is an advantage
• Communicate effortlessly in English, verbally and in writing. Danish is an advantage but not required

About VELUX

In the VELUX Group, we offer you a world of opportunities and the chance to create a bright future. From the forefront of the roof window category, we enable those who live, work, and play under the roof to transform their spaces and live a healthier everyday life with more daylight and fresh air.

The VELUX Group is an international, family‑owned business with strong financial roots. Each year, we create real impact by reinvesting in society, our employees, and the planet through our foundations. With 20 production companies in 12 countries and sales companies in 37 countries, our products are widely available. We employ around 12,000 people, and our headquarters are in Denmark. Alongside the rest of our values, “courage” and “mutual respect” guide our actions every day.

Equal Opportunity Employer

At VELUX Residential, we believe in fostering a diverse workplace where everyone can thrive, develop, and perform at their best. We are committed to providing equal opportunities for all, whether you are applying for a role or already part of VELUX Residential.

We recruit, hire, train, and promote people based on their skills and potential without regard to race, colour, religion, sex, age, neurodiversity, disability, protected veteran status, national origin, sexual orientation, or any other basis prohibited by applicable law. We focus only on what truly matters: your qualifications and how you can contribute to our shared mission and success.