Do you want to facilitate engagement, professional development, and performance for a large team of motivated specialists? Are you a skilled people leader and do you have solid managerial experience and a clear vision for developing the transportation business in [xxxxx] together with colleagues across borders?Create the solutions that will enable a better tomorrowTo develop our transportation business, we are looking for a Vice President, Head of Engineering to join our Transportation division in Lyngby. In this role, you will report to Senior Vice President, Carsten Heine Lund, and lead approximately 100 highly skilled employees across multiple engineering disciplines with 7 direct reports. As Head of Engineering, you will be part of the senior leadership team in Transportation, where we focus on collaborative teamwork and the will to win jointly.
You will play a central role in creating the conditions for people to thrive — encouraging cross‑disciplinary collaboration, promoting shared ownership, and enabling teams to combine their skills to deliver high‑quality solutions for complex infrastructure projects. Our Transportation business spans highways, roads, airports, landscaping, utilities, construction management and supervision, as well as traffic planning and mobility. In this role, you will help shape a cohesive and collaborative environment across all these areas.
Your key responsibilities will be to:
- Act as a visible role model for [xxxxx]’s values and leadership behaviours, setting clear direction and empowering your leadership team to create a collaborative and accountable culture.
- Lead, coach, and develop heads of discipline, enhancing performance, engagement, and an inclusive, motivating environment that supports sustainable growth.
- Ensure efficient project execution by securing optimal staffing together with your Head of Engineering colleague in Transportation West, addressing technical challenges, and engaging in key customer and senior project meetings.
- Support technical excellence by identifying development needs across disciplines and shaping plans for capability building and talent acquisition.
- Translate strategic growth goals into actionable resource planning in close collaboration with the executing unit and Engineering Design Centre leaders.
Your skills. Our team. Together we design the future.
Like us, you believe that leadership success comes from building purpose and inspiring the leaders you lead. Developing your people, encouraging them to apply their strengths in their work, and moving their performance forward through dialogue are at the centre of what you do. So are attracting a diverse group of leaders and promoting an open, caring and trusting culture. And breaking down silos and collaborating across the organisation are inherent to the direction you set for your leadership team.
On top of that, you have:
- A degree in engineering or another relevant field.
- Comprehensive management experience.
- Solid experience in transportation infrastructure.
- Professional proficiency in Danish and English, written and spoken.
A place to work and so much more
At
[xxxxx], we work together with our customers to shape a sustainable and liveable world. We do it by applying our knowledge and curiosity – and sometimes even our courage – to create the solutions the world needs today to enable a better tomorrow. We support our customers’ transition towards increased sustainability. We strive to lead by example by embedding environmental management, social responsibility and good governance into our business practices and the options we provide to our customers.
We value differences and development and cultivate an environment of belonging and having fun. Because that is what brings out the best in you, at work and at home.
With offices primarily located in the Nordic region, the UK, North America and India, we are currently more than 7,500 people who bring their expertise in engineering, architecture, energy and environment into play.
Work location The position is based at our headquarter in Lyngby, Denmark, where you will lead your team while actively collaborating with colleagues and project teams across our other offices.
Want to know more?Get to know us even better at our website, www.
[xxxxx].com, where you can learn more about our projects, our strategy, what we want to achieve and what life is like at
[xxxxx].
Before you applyAll you need to include in your application is your CV – no photo or application letter. At an interview, you can tell us everything we need to know about why you’re interested in joining
[xxxxx]. As for the photo, we prefer to form our first impression in person rather than from a picture.
Diversity is fundamental to [xxxxx], inclusion is key.
We are committed to creating a respectful and fair work environment where all employees have a sense of belonging and equitable opportunities to thrive and grow. We ensure that our leaders are role models for inclusive leadership by cultivating a culture where diverse perspectives and thoughts are seen as strengths. And we take diversity and inclusion into account in all relevant decisions and processes and when setting teams and fora. We do it because it is part of our values and because it is simply the right thing to do.
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