Team Lead Operational Excellence (Manufacturing)

Location: Aalborg, Nordjylland, Denmark

Company

Siemens Gamesa, part of hirify.global, manufactures wind turbines and develops energy technology supporting the global energy transition.

What you will do

• Lead, coach, and develop a 13-person team of OE Business Partners, OE Specialists, and OE Program Managers.
• Own the deployment, governance, standardization, and sustainment of WPMS across the Aalborg manufacturing area.
• Establish performance management standards, KPI routines, tier meetings, visual management, and escalation practices.
• Allocate team capacity across daily performance support, industrial engineering, capacity modelling, takt and manning proposals, and long-term Operational Excellence development.
• Drive flow improvement, bottleneck analysis, Value Stream Mapping, and Value Stream Design with production leadership.
• Ensure analyses and improvement plans have clear ownership, measurable benefits, and sustained results.

Requirements

• Background in engineering, manufacturing, or industrial engineering with solid Operational Excellence and Lean experience in production.
• Demonstrated people leadership experience developing specialists and leading cross-functional improvement teams.
• Strong understanding of manufacturing processes, performance management, flow, and shopfloor execution.
• Structured problem-solving, facilitation, change management, communication, and stakeholder management skills.
• Professional English is required; Danish is an advantage.

Nice to have

• Experience with WPMS deployment, capacity modelling, takt and manning calculations, or factory performance management.
• Danish language skills.

Culture & Benefits

• Work with a global, diverse, and inclusive team in the wind energy industry.
• Remote and flexible work options.
• Medical benefits, paid holidays, and parental leave.
• Employer-funded pension and subsidized lunch.

Hiring process

• Ongoing selection applies, and the role may be filled before the application deadline.
• Applications should be submitted by 25 September 2026.