Assistant Workshop Manager for Høvelte Workshop at the Defence Maintenance Service

Workshop Høvelte under the Defence Maintenance Service seeks a quality-conscious and skilled leader - If you would like to become part of our professional and engaged team?

About us

Workshop Høvelte belongs to Maintenance Area East of the Defence Maintenance Service.

Area East handles maintenance tasks on the Defence's land-based materiel systems and has workshops on Bornholm, Zealand and in Southern Jutland. In total we consist of 300 employees who perform inspections, maintenance, repair, assembly tasks and upgrades of Army materiel. The materiel ranges from passenger cars to trucks/trailers up to armored vehicles as well as containers, electronics and weapons materiel.

With us we value high professional standards, efficient workflows and a good working environment where wellbeing and collaboration are in focus. We prioritise competence development and work purposefully to develop our employees, so that together we stand strong for future tasks.

The workshop is certified in Quality Management (ISO-9001) and Occupational Health and Safety Management (ISO-45001) and has a LEAN-oriented approach to its own processes.

About the position

As Assistant Workshop Manager your primary tasks will be

• Assist the workshop manager in general daily management/HR and manage assigned ad hoc tasks
• Leadership and sparring with the workshop foremen
• Ensure that breakdowns at the workshops are reported and remedied
• Maintain ongoing contact with FES/ETAB
• Contribute to maintaining certification in quality management and occupational safety in accordance with ISO 9001 and 45001
• Act as Occupational Safety as the management representative
• Oversee/coordinate Basic Military Training (GMU) in collaboration with the workshop’s other officers
• Maintain good contact with customers
• You will continuously be part of the professional readiness and you must be ready that foreign service may occur (INTOPS).

You will, as a line manager, for a large portion of the workshop's staff, also need to be able to handle a number of tasks related to staff development.

About you

You must have a relevant professional education with a journeyman certificate either as a truck mechanic, auto mechanic, precision mechanic, electronics technician or similar. In addition, it would be advantageous if you have experience from a similar job with workshop planning and coordination, for example as a workshop supervisor or production planner.

As a person it is important that you are good at motivating others and creating acceptance and understanding of the tasks, so that there is willingness to make an effort. In addition you must be good at allocating time and resources in connection with your planning, while being a proactive and personal authority who can make effective and sometimes necessary decisions.

Terms of employment

The employment is in accordance with the applicable Collective Agreement between the Ministry of Finance and the Danish Teachers’ Central Organization and CO10 – Central Organization of 2010 and the Organizational Agreement between the Ministry of Defence’s Personnel Agency and CO10 and the Central Association for Stamp Personnel for civilian employees under the Ministry of Defence’s authority area within the Central Association for Stamp Personnel’s negotiating area (formerly the Defence Civil Service).

Depending on your qualifications and competencies, there is a possibility for negotiation of a supplement. There is an employer-funded pension scheme attached to the position.

The workplace is in Høvelte

As an employee under the Defence Ministry’s area you are subject to some special conditions. You must, among other things, be security-clearable and maintain the security clearance throughout the entire employment.

You, as an employee, have an obligation to perform service outside the country, including at units in international operations with a view to participating in conflict prevention, peacekeeping, peacebuilding, humanitarian and other similar operations.

Contact and application

If you want to know more about the position, you are welcome to contact Senior Sergeant Morten Hansson at tel. 4043 8889

If you have questions about salary and employment terms, you can contact HR Consultant Pia Knudsen at tel. 2266 5783.

The application deadline is 18 November 2026 and interviews are expected to be held shortly after, the position being filled as soon as possible.

You apply for the position via the link and please attach your application, CV and a copy of your education certificate. Please note that attachments must be in PDF format.

In the Defence Ministry's organization we believe that diversity optimizes task solving. Therefore we encourage all interested regardless of background to apply for the position.

ABOUT THE DEFENCE MAINTENANCE SERVICE

The Defence Maintenance Service is a quality-management and occupational safety-conscious service organization that maintains, repairs and modifies the Defence’s materiel. A part of the organization is ISO and occupational safety certified, which is expected to be rolled out to the entire organization. The authority employs about 1700 employees.

The Defence Maintenance Service consists of a Maintenance Division with six maintenance areas distributed geographically across the country, and a Planning and Coordination Division located in Brabrand. The six Maintenance Areas are specialized in repairing, maintaining and modifying specific materiel systems within their professional pillar. The Planning and Coordination Division consists of a Business Department and an Operations Department, which handle coordinating planning, training, management, controlling and development of the Defence Maintenance Service.

In addition to repairing and maintaining the Defence’s materiel, the Defence Maintenance Service supports the Defence’s operations and missions with well-trained military technical personnel who are lent to Defence units according to agreed planning or ad hoc in special cases.