Technical/Area Project manager

Job offer

Step into a role where your technical insight and project leadership skills help shape the manufacturing technologies of tomorrow. As our new Area 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.

Meet your future team:

You will join our Centre of Excellence for Shutters & DSP (Decoration & Sun Screening Products). The team is responsible for specifying, developing, and delivering production technologies to our global manufacturing network within this product area.

As Area Project Manager, you will work across several international factories (CZ, France, Denmark), 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. Your role is central to 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.

Your future role:

In this role, you will manage a wide range of technical projects across the DSP area. 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.

You will be based in Vyškov and you may expect international travel of approximately 10–20 days per year, primarily within Europe.

What you will bring:

You are a structured, proactive, and collaborative Project Manager who takes ownership and delivers with consistency. 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 manufacturing 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 specifying manufacturing equipment is an advantage
• Communicate effortlessly in English, verbally and in writing. Czech language is an advantage.

What we offer:

• A respectful and supportive culture based on trust
• Annual performance-based bonus
• Flexible working hours and possibility of working from home (hybrid)
• Private medical care, life insurance
• Support from the VELUX Employee Foundation
• Discounts on VELUX products and more

Ready to apply?

Learn more about the VELUX Group at www.velux.com, where you can also read about working at our company and what to expect in our recruitment process.

We look forward to receiving your application and CV in English as soon as possible. We are reviewing candidates on an ongoing basis until we find the right match.

All inquiries will be treated confidentially.