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Job Description

Are you ready to lead a groundbreaking factory start-up, driving innovation by integrating automated systems and sophisticated digital technologies at LEGO's newest site?

Lead the charge in revolutionizing manufacturing within LEGO's Greenfield LVA factory, where you'll drive groundbreaking automation, champion global standards, and ensure flawless operations from Day 1.

• Lead the end-to-end Start-Up journey for the LVA Greenfield factory, ensuring robust and empowered operations.

• Translate global program achievements into local readiness actions, creating a unified delivery roadmap.

• Lead the Global Start-Up Management Framework, ensuring operational ownership beyond technical sign-off.

• Drive risk mitigation continuously, activating assessments and ensuring visibility throughout execution.

• Build organizational capability and readiness, including training plans and operational management systems.

• Establish performance acceleration routines to ensure fast, stable ramp-up of operations.

• Integrate automation and digital tools into operations, ensuring maturity and full lifecycle readiness.

• Ensure detailed DQP compliance, facilitating decision-making across R&D, suppliers, and partners.
  

The Greenfield Automation Program is redefining the LEGO Group's future for automated Packing, Molding, and Logistics, setting standards for next-generation factories. As the first site for these innovations, LVA represents a significant achievement. Your leadership will ensure the site's readiness for a stable ramp-up, setting benchmarks for future deployments.
Do You Have What It Takes?

• Proven experience leading large-scale industrial or automation start-ups, ideally greenfield or new factory environments.

• Significant expertise in start-up of production lines, technology ramp-up, and operational readiness.

• Strong end-to-end operations and value chain understanding across manufacturing, quality, engineering, and supply chain.

• Experience embedding readiness frameworks such as CQV, DQP, FMEA, PDCA, and associated risk/quality tools.

• Demonstrated ability to lead through complexity, ambiguity, and fast-paced change.

• Exceptional leadership presence with experience working and influencing global and local partners

• Strong capability-building leadership: competency models, training plans, uplifting capability, and readiness validation.

• Advanced education in engineering, manufacturing, operations, or similar, or equivalent experience, is highly desired

• Experience supporting multi-site or multi-technology ramp-ups.

• Familiarity with Lean, DfM, continuous improvement, or structured problem-solving frameworks.

• Understanding of digital manufacturing (MES, SCADA, data analytics, traceability, automation platforms).

• A global mentality with a passion for building diverse, high-performing teams.

• Energy, resilience, and growth-mindset orientation - adopting challenge as opportunity.

• A team-oriented, fun, and humble approach that reflects LEGO values: shared success, curiosity, creativity, and positivity.

• Long-term, the selected candidate must be willing to relocate to other sites, globally, to support future LEGO growth

• Relocation will be provided

• Some international travel will be required
  

Compensation

Applications are reviewed on an ongoing basis. However, please note we do amend or withdraw our jobs and reserve the right to do so at any time, including prior to any advertised closing date. So, if you're interested in this role we encourage you to apply as soon as possible.

What's in it for you?

Here are some of what to expect:

FamilyCareLeave -We offer enhanced paid leave options for those important times.

Insurances -All colleagues are covered by our life and disability insurance which provides protection and peace of mind.

Wellbeing- We want you to be your best self, so you'll have access to the Headspace App and lots of wellbeing initiatives and programs run by local teams where you are based

ColleagueDiscount- We know you'll love to build so from day 1 you will qualify for our generous colleague discount.

Bonus- We do our best work to succeed together. When goals are reached and if eligible, you'll be rewarded through our bonus scheme

Your workplace -When you join the team you'll be assigned a primary workplace location i.e. one of our Offices, stores or factories. Our hybrid work policy means an average of 3 days per week in the office. The hiring team will discuss the policy and role eligibility with you during the recruitment process.

We strive to create a diverse, dynamic and inclusive culture of play at the LEGO Group, where everyone feels safe, valued and they belong.
The LEGO Group is highly committed to equal employment opportunity and equal pay and seeks to encourage applicants from all backgrounds (eg. sex, gender identity or expression, race/ethnicity, national origin, sexual orientation, disability, age, religion and Veteran status) to apply for roles in our team.

We support our employees in being there for the moments that matter in life and celebrate families of all kinds, the loved ones that make us who we are. Being part of the LEGO Group also means taking part in our annual Play Day, playing a part in building a sustainable future and continuing our mission to "inspire and develop the builders of tomorrow."
The LEGO Group is fully committed to Children's Rights and Child Wellbeing across the globe. Candidates offered positions with high engagement with children are required to take part in Child Safeguarding Background Screening, as a condition of the offer.

Thank you for sharing our global commitment to Children's Rights.

We conduct drug screening as a part of our drug free workplace policy and in support of our commitment to the health and safety of our employees.

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