Painter for the surface treatment workshop in Aalborg at the Defence Maintenance Service

We need a new colleague for our Surface Treatment Workshop.

At the Defence in Aalborg we are seeking a painter to paint our equipment, especially aircraft and aircraft components. If you want to become part of a meaningful everyday life with a sense of belonging and high professional standards, we would be pleased to hear from you.

About us

Maintenance of helicopters and combat aircraft as well as component maintenance is a central part of our task. You will become part of an organization with around 360 dedicated colleagues spread across seven special workshops, a logistics element and a planning section. Together we develop specialized solutions that support and strengthen the Defence’s capabilities across services and emergency preparedness.

We consist mainly of civilian employees. The Surface Treatment Workshop has a workshop manager, two assistant workshop managers and 28 colleagues with varied backgrounds, as well as a surface treatment apprentice.

We are a unique workplace where high quality in work on aircraft maintenance and documentation must be delivered.

We place a high professional standard, and we value the social environment at the workplace, which is based on security, trust and mutual respect. Safety is a natural part of everyday life.

About the position

You will have close collaboration with experienced colleagues, among other things through knowledge sharing across the workshops. We handle a wide range of tasks within surface treatment, inspection and assessment of the condition of aircraft and components without damaging them.

Your primary duties include the following areas

• Painting of the Defence’s materiel, primarily aircraft and aircraft components
• Assistance to colleagues in connection with various workshop tasks at the Surface Treatment Workshop
• Contribute to tidying up and daily cleaning of your own work area
• Support the entire surface treatment workshop in their tasks
• Participate in a painter on-call arrangement, approx. every 5 weeks

We offer

• A meaningful everyday life, where you help to ensure, among other things, the Defence’s flying materiel.
• Flexible working hours and your lunch break is part of the working day.
• Employer-funded pension and secure employment conditions.
• Opportunity for professional and personal development, including through travel activities and skills development.

About you

You have a journeyman certificate as a painter with training as a body shop painter, industrial painter, auto painter. It would be advantageous if you have an epoxy certificate.

You have good IT skills; experience with SAP is an advantage but not required, as they will be part of your competence development, among other things through training. The most important is that you are eager to learn new things and keen to develop in a role with high professionalism.

We are looking for a colleague who

• Is curious, eager to learn and takes responsibility for their own learning
• Is structured and quality-conscious, with an eye for detail and documentation
• Is a team player, contributing to good collaboration and a positive work environment
• Can read, understand and write technical English, as all reporting is in English

You are a team-player and contribute to a good and fruitful community and help create positive conditions for collaboration between internal and external stakeholders.

Travel activity may occur for courses and when working at Defence locations.

Terms of employment

Employment is in accordance with the then-current Collective Agreement between the Ministry of Finance and Public Employees Organization – The Public Sector (OAO-S Collective Agreement) and the Organizational Agreement for craftsmen and technicians.

Depending on your qualifications and competences, there is a possibility of negotiating allowances. The position is linked to an employer-funded pension scheme.

The workplace is in Aalborg.

As an employee within the Defence Ministry’s area you are subject to certain special terms. You must, among other things, be able to obtain security clearance and maintain the clearance throughout the employment.

You as an employee are obliged to perform service outside the country, including at units in international operations for participation in conflict prevention, peacekeeping, peace enforcement, humanitarian and other similar operations.

Contact and application

If you want to know more about the position, you are welcome to contact Assistant Workshop Manager Simon Brokop Jakobsen at tel. 2559 1769 or via email [email protected].

If you have questions about salary and employment terms, please contact the Personnel Command, HR Consultant June Bastholm at telephone 3266 5470.

The application deadline is 10 December 2026 and interviews are expected to be held shortly thereafter. The position is to be filled as soon as possible.

You apply for the position via the link, and we ask you to attach your application, CV and a copy of your journeyman certificate. Please note that attachments must be added in PDF format.

In the Defence 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 safety-conscious service organization that maintains, repairs and modifies the Defence’s materiel. Part of the organization is ISO and occupational health and safety certified today, which is expected to be expanded to the entire organization. The agency employs about 1,700 staff.

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, governance, controlling and development of the Defence Maintenance Service.