Manufacturing Manager

Job Description

Are you passionate about leading teams and driving excellence in manufacturing? 

Danfoss Climate Solutions, Burner Components, is seeking a dynamic Manufacturing Manager to lead our Production and Maintenance area. 

If you're ready to inspire and guide a team of dedicated Production Supervisors, optimize our safety, quality, delivery, and cost (SQDC), and drive continuous improvement, we want to hear from you!

In this role, you can look forward to an engaging and fulfilling career with significant growth opportunities.

Job Responsibilities

As the Manufacturing Manager, you will lead our Production and Maintenance, leading and collaborating with our four Production Supervisors. 

Your mission is to optimize safety, quality, delivery, and cost (SQDC) across the value chain. You will promote manufacturing philosophy and build up a continuous improvement culture for our factory, using LEAN and SIX SIGMA methodologies from the Danfoss Business System (DBS), significantly impacting all KPIs and ensuring timely delivery of world-class products.

Additionally, you can look forward to:

• Identify gaps and opportunities, define the roadmap for operational targets, and drive yearly improvements. 
• Coach and facilitate colleague and project to achieve improvement objectives. 
• Collaborate with all support functions to enhance daily performance management, challenge the status quo, and implement improvement potentials. 
• Maintain a transparent reporting structure of KPIs and drive improvement initiatives in alignment with management.

Background & Skills

As a person, you are naturally analytical, always ensuring you have the right data for decision-making. Your outgoing nature and strong collaboration skills enable you to easily build relationships easily at all levels and get others on board with your ideas. This is also why it is easy for you to coach your colleagues when new processes and techniques are implemented.

In terms of professional qualifications, you have extensive experience with value stream mapping and hold at least a Lean Six Sigma Green Belt, preferably a Black Belt. Your proficiency in project management further strengthens your abilities to lead and execute projects efficiently, contributing to our team's success.

You are proficient in MS applications such as Excel and PowerPoint and familiar with the standard quality tools and root cause problem-solving methodology. 

Additionally, you are fluent in both Danish and English.

For more information about the position, please contact Operations Director, Rasmus Bjerre Poulsen, +45 6114 1533. For information about the recruitment process, please contact Recruiter, Karin K P Jensen, +45 7488 3058. #LI-KJ1 #LI-Onsite

Please apply at your earliest convenience. We do not have an application deadline but accept applications as long as the job is posted.

Employee Benefits

We are excited to offer you the following benefits with your employment:

• Bonus system
• Paid vacation
• Flexible working hours
• Possibility to work remotely
• Pension plan
• Personal insurance
• Communication package
• Opportunity to join Employee Resource Groups
• State of the art virtual work environment

This list does not promise or guarantee any particular benefit or specific action. They may depend on country or contract specifics and are subject to change at any time without prior notice.

Danfoss – Engineering Tomorrow

At Danfoss, we are engineering solutions that allow the world to use resources in smarter ways - driving the sustainable transformation of tomorrow. No transformation has ever been started without a group of passionate, dedicated and empowered people. We believe that innovation and great results are driven by the right mix of people with diverse backgrounds, personalities, skills, and perspectives, reflecting the world in which we do business. To make sure the mix of people works, we strive to create an inclusive work environment where people of all backgrounds are treated equally, respected, and valued for who they are. It is a strong priority within Danfoss to improve the health, working environment and safety of our employees.

Following our founder’s mindset “action speaks louder than words”, we set ourselves ambitious targets to protect the environment by embarking on a plan to become CO2 neutral latest by 2030.

Danfoss is an EO employer and VEVRAA Federal Contractor. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex, national origin, age, disability, veteran status, or other protected category.