We are looking for an Engineering Director for our airport business to take full ownership of our global Engineering function across Product and Project Engineering. You will operate at the intersection of product scalability and flawless project delivery—ensuring we don’t just engineer solutions but industrialise them and execute them repeatedly at high quality.
Engineering is at the core of our competitiveness. This role is crucial in defining how we scale through better products, stronger project execution in a globally aligned setup.
Based out of our Aarhus office in the heart of our Airport Centre of Competence (CoC), you will lead through leaders, align global teams, and build a globally aligned engineering setup that can scale with the business. The Airport Engineering function consists of approximately 80 employees based in Denmark. The focus will be on increasing engineering efficiency, strengthen delivery reliability, and ensure that engineering stays a competitive advantage.
Building scalable standardized products is the essence of an efficient delivery and this will be a significant part of your organisation including mechanical, electrical, automatisation and high level control competences.
Your role
You will take on the global responsibility for our airport engineering, leading and developing a multi-disciplinary engineering organisation through strong leadership teams. It is essential that you are able to create a culture of accountability, collaboration and continuous improvement, while strengthening leadership capability, ongoing development and organisational resilience. Moreover, you will:
This is a key role with a strong focus on ensuring full visibility of our global engineering capacity and competencies. You will be working closely with global stakeholders across the organisation to enable efficient cross-border resource allocation and utilisation and drive long-term workforce planning and capability development. To succeed, you will be establishing aligned processes, governance and engineering standards globally to enable the rest of the project organisation to successfully deliver high-complexity projects to airport customers worldwide.
What you bring
We are looking for an experienced engineering leader, who will be able to navigate in a large, global and complex matrix organisation with a wide range of stakeholders. You bring significant leadership experience from the engineering industry and have a proven track record in both product engineering and complex project delivery. Moreover, we imagine that you:
This role is for you if you thrive in simplifying complexity and creating structure, while balancing long-term product strategy with short-term delivery pressure. You build trust quickly and lead with clarity and direction across cultures, functions and seniority and are comfortable in operating in a global matrix.
Interested?
If you have any questions, you are welcome to reach out to Global Talent Acquisition Manager, Asger Hess-Olesen, on +45 27 61 58 79 or P&C Manager, Sarah Olsen, on +45 31 24 49 91.
We are looking forward to hearing from you!
BEUMER Group
Conveying, loading, palletising, packing, sortation and distribution – BEUMER Group is a leader within the development and manufacture of high-technological intralogistics systems for global markets. Our employees stand out from others thanks to their ability to supply innovative solutions to our customers. They can do this because they know the industry and are passionate about continuously developing and expanding their knowledge. We support these high standards through teamwork, mutual respect and a working culture based on trust that fosters stability and security for all of our employees. Our common goal is to implement outstanding and innovative projects worldwide.