Job Description

Are you eager to innovate and build a new moulding platform that makes our future moulds more competitive?

Bring your proven technical manufacturing skills, moulding knowledge and excellent stakeholder management capabilities into play in this role, where you will become part of phases from the initial design of elements to mould construction, development and production as well as innovating a new moulding platform.  

No relocation assistance is offered for this position.

Core Responsibilities

In this new position as Mould Manufacturing Engineer, you will play a key role in establishing a new mould platform, named Low Volume Moulding (LVM). You will participate in the development of novelty LEGO® bricks (elements) by bringing element maturing knowledge into the design phase. It will be among your core responsibilities to ensure that the matured elements fit into the LVM platform following the principles of Design for Manufacturing (DFM), expected costs, lead time, etc. More specifically, you will:   

• Mature elements, make robust mould constructions in 3D CAD for DFM and be part of producing the moulds in high quality. Following this, ensure that all mould master data appear in SAP

• Responsible for standard work documentation meaning – creation, revision, translation, maintenance, uploading and administration and sharing of documentation

• Identify mould mistakes, correct them and change processes, if needed. Develop guides/templates that support the daily work

• Approve possible loops in Mould Qualification, make rework of moulds and participate in possible escalations

• Bring new learnings and knowledge into play to support the development of the moulding platform both in test and implementation phase on a global scale

• Drive KPI initiatives and LEGO Continuous Improvement (LCI) support

• Support Novelty Element engineers with DFM expertise 

• Advocate, enhance and engage in collaborations across departments (especially, Novelty Element Development, Maturing Manufacturing and Mould Qualification) 

• Be part Train colleagues in best practice for robust mould design and manufacturing during daily dialogues, handover meetings, etc. 

Play your part in our team succeeding

You will join the Maturing Manufacturing team in Billund developing and maturing the moulds for mass production. Furthermore, the team supports the education of toolmakers with support of mentors, trainers and apprentices. It consists of 13 highly skilled colleagues with diverse sets of backgrounds, age groups, etc.  

This role will give you a unique opportunity to develop your professional knowledge, and meanwhile to contribute to the department's future development and workflows.

Do you have what it takes?

The ideal candidate brings 3+ years’ experience as Toolmaker, Industrial Technician or equivalent roles working with toolmaking, mould design and mechanical constructions. Most importantly, you come with a strong technical manufacturing foundation, learning mindset and proven stakeholder management skills from a cross organizational industrial setting. In addition, you have:   

• experience in maturing element designs and robust mould constructions including planning job breakdown, troubleshooting moulds, etc.

• Strong capabilities in CAM Programming (preferably, PowerMill), CNC Milling, EDM. 3D CAD Systems (preferably, Siemens NX) and 3D scanning

• Great curiosity and passion around robust technical designs to become the department’s decision maker and go-to-person 

Furthermore, it will be an advantage, if you have knowledge about: 

• CMM – Ziess Calypso

• LEAN, PPS, etc.

Finally, you are a dedicated, systematic and service-minded team player with strong communication skills and collaboration capabilities that enable you both to challenge status quo and to build positive relationships with stakeholders making sure that we all succeed together!

We accept applications both in English and Danish.

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 is what you can expect:

Family Care Leave - 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 our people to feel well and thrive. We offer resources and benefits to nurture physical and mental wellbeing along with opportunities to build community and inspire creativity.

Colleague Discount – 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.

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.

Children are our role models. Their curiosity, creativity and imagination inspire everything we do. 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 and religion) to apply for roles in our team.

Research shows that women and people from different underrepresented backgrounds often only apply for a job if they meet 100% of the listed qualifications. If you dream of being a part of our team and you meet many, but not all of our listed qualifications for this role, please apply.

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.

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Then make it real.

Join the LEGO® team today.