Mechanic (engine) at the Defence Maintenance Service Workshop Holstebro

Would you like to work as a mechanic (engine) within a broad range of Army vehicles, including some of the very heavy ones? Would you like a versatile job with both technical and operational elements? Do you seek challenges, personal and professional development, and can you work in a workshop with a dynamic daily life? Then your future may be with us.

About us

The West Maintenance Area is part of the Land Maintenance Department. The area handles maintenance tasks on the Defence’s land-based materiel systems. The Maintenance Area has workshops in Aalborg, Skive, Holstebro, Varde and Oksbøl and comprises a total of 300 employees.

Workshop Holstebro is located at Holstebro Garrison and is organizationally subordinate to the West Maintenance Area, which is based in Aalborg.

We service all materiel from the Jydske Dragon Regiment in Holstebro, which has battle tanks and other armored vehicles, and you should therefore expect to handle a wide range of tasks, including repairs and inspections on trucks and tracked vehicles.

Workshop Holstebro consists of 48 employees, distributed among engine, weapon and electronics mechanics as well as spare parts clerks. Staff at the workshop are mainly permanently employed military personnel, who in addition to carrying out maintenance tasks in the garrison, also undergo military training with a view to joining the national readiness and deployment in international missions.

We strive for a high professional level, both as mechanics and as soldiers.

We place emphasis on maintaining good cooperation with the units we support, as well as ensuring they have their equipment and vehicles available as far as possible.

We carry out assigned tasks with a high level of quality. Professional pride, personal flexibility and the ability to adapt are essential disciplines in everyday life. We place high value on quality, adherence to agreements, the work environment, and personal development.

About the position

You will work together with the assistant workshop manager and the other mechanics in the workshop, where your primary tasks will be fault-finding, inspections and repairs of armored vehicles and trucks of all types.

The tasks will be based on your qualifications, where you will initially start by working on wheeled vehicles, with the possibility to further train in tracked vehicles of various types. If you already have experience with tracked vehicles, there will be an opportunity to start directly in the tracked workshop

About you

You have a vocational education with a “black” journeyman’s certificate as a motor mechanic or similar.

You can work independently and in a structured way, are forward-thinking in problem solving and place emphasis on a high professional level.

The workshop tasks can change at short notice, and reprioritization in accordance with customer needs may occur. You must therefore be flexible and adaptable. You also have the drive to acquire new knowledge and further education, while being cooperative and outgoing.

It is also desirable that you have a driving license for category C-E.

Terms of employment

Note that the position is advertised both civile and military.

The employment is in accordance with the current Joint Agreement between the Ministry of Finance and Public Sector Organizations – The Civil Service Sector (OAO-S Joint Agreement) and the Organization Agreement for craftsmen and technicians.

Depending on your qualifications and competencies, there is a possibility to negotiate allowances. There is an employer-funded pension scheme attached to the position.

The workplace is in Holstebro.

As an employee under the Ministry of Defence, you are subject to certain special terms. You must, among other things, be able to undergo security clearance and maintain the clearance during the entire employment relationship.

As an employee you are obliged to perform service outside the country, including with units in international operations with a view to participation in conflict prevention, peacekeeping, peace-enforcing, humanitarian and other similar operations.

Contact and application

If you would like to know more about the position, you are welcome to contact the workshop manager, Sergeant Major Lars Witt at telephone 2964 0611.

If you have questions about salary and terms of employment, you are welcome to contact the Personnel Command, HR consultant June Bastholm at telephone 3266 5470.

The application deadline is 26 October 2026 and interviews are expected to be held shortly thereafter. The position is available as soon as possible.

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

In the Defence Organization we believe that diversity improves problem solving. Therefore we encourage all interested regardless of background to apply for the position.

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. Part of the organization is today ISO and occupational safety certified, which is expected to be extended to the entire organization. The authority employs about 1,700 people.

The Defence Maintenance Service consists of a Maintenance Division with six maintenance areas geographically distributed across the country, and a Planning and Coordination Division located in Brabrand. The six Maintenance Areas specialize in repairing, maintaining and modifying specific materiel systems within their professional pillar. The Planning and Coordination Division consists of a Business Section and an Operations Section, which handles 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 Defence operations and missions with well-trained military-technical personnel who are loaned to Defence units in accordance with agreed planning or ad hoc in special cases.