Lead Architect (R&D Department)

Do you enjoy creating the fundament for the optimal automation solutions in a production environment? And would you like to leave your mark on production technologies that could potentially revolutionise the way we produce stone wool products? We are looking for a Lead Architect within OT&IT. As we are developing many automation solutions and will be combining them on one factory - the data need to flow efficiently and we need to build the OT&IT architecture behind. As Lead Architect you will be driving this construction in close coordination with Group Digital plus Group Technology and you will act as coordinator to all the projects in the Factory of the Future portfolio; team.

Your technical background and experience will be relevant in driving the activities and in finding possible solutions. We work with proof of concepts, development of pilots, implementation strategies, roll-outs, test and operation of OT&IT Solutions. In this role there will be focus on the classical Lead Architect content and also on newer topics such as: Low code, IoT, Unified Namespace and Microservices in Manufacturing. The Factory of the Future team will form the basis of OT&T Strategies and Architectures to benefit. We work in projects and base our solutions on a deep understanding of our production processes – and if standard components are not available, we develop our own.

Doing so, you will collaborate closely with a broad range of colleagues – from our lab to production sites across the Globe. Therefore, you can expect to travel approx. 60 days a year, mostly being on- site on the factory for meetings and testing.

You will join our “Factory of the Future” team of specialists within Group R&D. We are a team of passionate, skilled and knowledgeable colleagues who develop; implement the newest technologies for stone wool production. The “Factory of the Future” team is recently established with the aim of upgrading our production facilities with best in class OT & IT Solutions. We are proud to be word leaders in our industry, and we work hard to stay in this position.