BEUMER Group A/S is looking for an Engineering Director for their airport business to take full ownership of their global Engineering function across Product and Project Engineering. You will operate at the intersection of product scalability and flawless project delivery—ensuring BEUMER Group A/S does not just engineer solutions but industrialises them and executes them repeatedly at high quality.
Engineering is at the core of their competitiveness. This role is crucial in defining how BEUMER Group A/S scales through better products and stronger project execution in a globally aligned setup.
Based out of their Aarhus office in the heart of their 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, strengthening delivery reliability, and ensuring that engineering remains a competitive advantage.
Building scalable, standardised products is the essence of an efficient delivery. This will be a significant part of your organisation, including mechanical, electrical, automatisation, and high-level control competencies.
Your roleYou will take on the global responsibility for their 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:
- Ensure seamless transition from product development to project execution.
- Drive standardisation, modularisation, and configuration strategies.
- Lead industrialisation efforts to improve scalability, cost efficiency, and quality.
- Establish strong product lifecycle management and continuous improvement loops.
This is a key role with a strong focus on ensuring full visibility of their 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 to 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 bringBEUMER Group A/S is 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. Furthermore, BEUMER Group A/S expects that you:
- Bring strong experience with standardisation, industrialisation, and scalable product strategies across all disciplines.
- Hold strong experience in leading across geographies and functions.
- Have significant experience in driving transformation, performance improvement, and organisational change.
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 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.
BEUMER Group A/S is looking forward to hearing from you!
What Benefits does BEUMER Group A/S offer?With their skills, ideas, and curiosity, BEUMER Group A/S's employees shape the success of their company. That is why BEUMER Group A/S is committed to ensuring the best possible work environment, providing meaningful employee benefits, and nurturing their unique company culture.
Global workingWork on exciting projects in a dynamic, innovative global family business across 70 countries.
Extensive onboardingGet an overview of BEUMER Group A/S's history, vision, and meet your new colleagues.
Team-oriented work cultureBEUMER Group A/S fosters a collaborative, open, and friendly culture through feedback and regular events.
Career and developmentBEUMER Group A/S supports your personal and professional growth with training, external courses, and grants.
Flexible and remote workingEnjoy flexible hours, remote work options, and modern, ergonomic office spaces.
Health, fitness and wellbeingAccess fitness centers, sports clubs, healthy lunch options, and well-being benefits.
Working at BEUMER Group A/SIt takes a bunch of diverse and special people to move the world's biggest businesses. That is why BEUMER Group A/S says that, within BEUMER Group A/S, they are “made different”.
With their skills, ideas, and curiosity, BEUMER Group A/S's employees shape the success of their company. That is why BEUMER Group A/S is committed to ensuring the best possible work environment, providing meaningful employee benefits, and nurturing their unique company culture.
“At BEUMER Group A/S, it is not only managers talking to managers. It is people reaching out to their colleagues all over the world.”
- Louise Christensen, Engineering, Denmark
Teamwork Made differentBEUMER Group A/S's employees distinguish themselves through their aptitude for delivering innovative solutions to their clients, all the while continually enhancing their skills and knowledge. BEUMER Group A/S makes this possible by providing a structure based on supportive teamwork, which is founded on mutual respect for each other and a working culture rooted in trust.
As BEUMER Group A/S pursues their shared objective of executing innovative and exceptional global projects, BEUMER Group A/S is committed to providing stability and security for each team member.
