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As the first site for these innovations, LVA represents a significant achievement. Your leadership will ensure the site's readiness for a stable ramp-up, setting benchmarks for future deployments.\nDo You Have What It Takes?\nProven experience leading large-scale industrial or automation start-ups, ideally greenfield or new factory environments.\n\nSignificant expertise in start-up of production lines, technology ramp-up, and operational readiness.\n\nStrong end-to-end operations and value chain understanding across manufacturing, quality, engineering, and supply chain.\n\nExperience embedding readiness frameworks such as CQV, DQP, FMEA, PDCA, and associated risk/quality tools.\n\nDemonstrated ability to lead through complexity, ambiguity, and fast-paced change.\n\nExceptional leadership presence with experience working and influencing global and local partners\n\nStrong capability-building leadership: competency models, training plans, uplifting capability, and readiness validation.\n\nAdvanced education in engineering, manufacturing, operations, or similar, or equivalent experience, is highly desired\n\nNice To Have:\nExperience supporting multi-site or multi-technology ramp-ups.\n\nFamiliarity with Lean, DfM, continuous improvement, or structured problem-solving frameworks.\n\nUnderstanding of digital manufacturing (MES, SCADA, data analytics, traceability, automation platforms).\n\nA global mentality with a passion for building diverse, high-performing teams.\n\nEnergy, resilience, and growth-mindset orientation - adopting challenge as opportunity.\n\nA team-oriented, fun, and humble approach that reflects LEGO values: shared success, curiosity, creativity, and positivity.\n\nAdditional:\nLong-term, the selected candidate must be willing to relocate to other sites, globally, to support future LEGO growth\n\nRelocation will be provided\n\nSome international travel will be required\n\nCompensation\nThe salary for this position has a range of $158,376.00 - $237,564.00 based on anticipated responsibilities, market benchmarks, and organizational constraints. The LEGO Group carefully considers a wide range of compensation factors, including but not limited to prior experience, skills, expertise, location, internal equity, and other considerations permitted by law. The comprehensive remuneration details, inclusive of benefits, will be communicated upon finalisation of the employment offer.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.\nWhat’s in it for you?\nHere are some of what to expect:\nFamily Care Leave - We offer enhanced paid leave options for those important times.\nInsurances - All colleagues are covered by our life and disability insurance which provides protection and peace of mind.\nWellbeing - We want you to be your best self, so you’ll have access to the Headspace App and lots of wellbeing initiatives and programs run by local teams where you are based\nColleague Discount - We know you'll love to build so from day 1 you will qualify for our generous colleague discount.\nBonus - We do our best work to succeed together. When goals are reached and if eligible, you'll be rewarded through our bonus scheme\nYour 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.\nWe strive to create a diverse, dynamic and inclusive culture of play at the LEGO Group, where everyone feels safe, valued and they belong.\nThe 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, religion and Veteran status) to apply for roles in our team.\nWe support our employees in being there for the moments that matter in life and celebrate families of all kinds, the loved ones that make us who we are. Being part of the LEGO Group also means taking part in our annual Play Day, playing a part in building a sustainable future and continuing our mission to “inspire and develop the builders of tomorrow.”\nThe 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.\nThank you for sharing our global commitment to Children’s Rights.\nWe conduct drug screening as a part of our drug free workplace policy and in support of our commitment to the health and safety of our employees.\nOnline Application Accessibility Statement; which is intended for people with disabilities- LEGO systems endeavors to make www.LEGO.com/jobs accessible to any and all users. If you would like to contact us regarding the accessibility of our web site or need assistance completing the application process, please contact the HR Service Desk at 1.860-763-7777, option #3. 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