Senior Manager Specialist

Job Description

Just imagine solving the most complex quality challenges across mould design and turning them into robust solutions that create lasting value across the business. Then make it real.

About the role

As our End2End Specialist within Mould Design, you will drive quality improvements across the first LEGO® Mould Design organization. You'll identify where the greatest opportunities exist, set priorities for end-to-end projects, and work closely with specialists and leaders across multiple departments to define and implement the right technical solutions. You'll play a key role in shaping quality, capability development, and engineering excellence while leading complex initiatives from investigation through implementation.

Required Qualifications

• Delivered quality improvement initiatives across complex engineering or manufacturing environments.
• Led large cross-functional projects involving multiple stakeholder groups.
• Applied root cause analysis and data-driven problem solving using a Six Sigma approach.
• Managed development, enhancement, or deployment of manufacturing or process solutions.
• Built experience across injection moulding, mould processes, and related production environments.
• Completed a master's degree in engineering or a related discipline including production, industrial, mechanical, or chemical engineering.

Preferred Qualifications

• Developed new equipment for internal production environments.
• Evaluated supplier and vendor deliverables against technical and quality requirements.
• Defined capability roadmaps based on future manufacturing and business needs.
• Implemented large-scale operational improvements across multiple functions.

What you'll build

• Drive quality-focused end-to-end projects across the Mould Design organization.
• Identify opportunities for improvement and recommend technical solutions to leadership teams.
• Coordinate specialists and topic drivers on high-priority engineering challenges.
• Lead and support development of new equipment and future processing capabilities.
• Mitigate risks relating to timelines, budgets, and change requests.
• Drive implementation of agreed technical solutions across the business.
• Lead complex continuous improvement initiatives within and beyond your own area.
• Support future production setups and global manufacturing flows through technical leadership.

If you've worked in a role where you've improved an entire value chain, delivered complex engineering improvements, and helped resolve business-critical technical challenges, you'll feel at home here. What matters most is your ability to connect technical insight with practical implementation and measurable business impact.

Life on the team

You'll work closely with specialists, leaders, and quality stakeholders across the Mould Design community and related engineering functions. Success comes from curiosity, collaboration, and a genuine interest in understanding how different parts of the value chain connect. You'll be someone who can listen to diverse perspectives, bring people together around shared goals, and maintain a broad view while solving complex technical challenges.

What success looks like

You'll be the person teams turn to when complexity creates uncertainty. Success means helping the organization make informed technical decisions, driving critical cross-functional improvements, and ensuring knowledge is shared across the business. You'll work closely with engineering specialists, business stakeholders, and quality leaders to build stronger processes, improve product quality, and shape future manufacturing capabilities.

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• Requires functional expertise equivalent to a relevant Engineering Degree at master-level (typically Mechanical Engineering)

• Advanced proficiency in mechanical design, manufacturing processes, and materials

• Technical Leadership: Serve as the project technical lead, providing expert guidance for the development, design, and construction of equipment, and managing relationships with suppliers to ensure project success

• Project Management Excellence: Oversee project management processes, ensuring adherence to all relevant norms, directives, and EHS requirements while mentoring junior engineers in these practices

• Mentor and guide junior engineers, fostering their professional development and encouraging a culture of continuous learning

• High level of initiative and accountability, with a proactive, cross-functional problem-solving mindset

• Identify and Overcome Barriers: Proactively identify improvement areas and barriers to change, collaborating with cross-functional teams to develop and implement effective solutions

• Drive established meetings with fixed agendas, fostering an environment of knowledge sharing and collaboration among team members

• Skilled in stakeholder management, including suppliers, customers, and internal functions

• Good adaptability and robustness in dealing with changing environments

• Strong understanding of product development lifecycle, including prototyping, testing, and industrialization

• Familiarity with relevant standards, regulatory requirements, and design for manufacturing

• Competence in interpreting technical drawings, tolerancing and quality control methodologies

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.

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.

Just imagine building your dream career.

Then make it real.

Join the LEGO® team today.

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About Us

Children are our role models. Their curiosity, creativity and imagination inspire everything we do. Our founder Ole Kirk Kristiansen made his first wooden toy in 1932. He persevered against the odds until his business was a success. Constantly innovating, never compromising. Building, rebuilding, and striving for the best. It is this resilience and permanent sense of renewal that drives us forward. We are never still. We will always be creating, inventing, and having fun. Build your career brick by brick and play your part in continuing our mission to “inspire and develop the builders of tomorrow”.