Emergency Manager for DTU's central working environment and emergency response function

If you dream of a meaningful job in an international environment, then this job might just be for you. 

DTU's central working environment and preparedness function in Kgs. Lyngby is looking for a dedicated person who can take on the role of Emergency Manager for DTU. 

DTU has 13,500 students and 6,000 employees, which unfold in facilities across a large number of locations in Denmark and Greenland. Our building mass covers over 600,000 m², which accommodates very varied uses for everything from offices and auditoriums, to state-of-the-art laboratories, wind tunnels, soundproof rooms, etc.

As an internationally recognized elite university, we must of course ensure that DTU is a safe and secure place to work and study. This is where you come into play in your role as our new Emergency Manager. Together with your closest colleagues and internal network, you will have a key role in helping and supporting the work with the safety culture throughout DTU - a large and dynamic organization where cooperation with many different stakeholders and authorities is the key to success.

We offer

A position in DTU's central working environment and preparedness function, where you will have 12 dedicated and highly engaged colleagues. You can expect a dynamic workplace with many varying tasks and exciting challenges, as well as good opportunities for professional and personal skill development.

We have an informal social tone and prioritize good collegiality. We emphasize cross-functional cooperation and are united in creating good results.

Tasks and area of responsibility

In the position of Emergency Manager, we expect you to bring your preparedness professional background into play and work holistically with strategic and framework-setting tasks, and deliver a high professional level. 

You can access and manage the authority's services and support compliance with applicable legislation. You contribute to creating the best framework for prevention and handling of unwanted incidents, recovery and continued operation.

You have experience in preparing/revising emergency plans, risk-based dimensioning, risk analysis, including emergency and security risk assessments, etc.

You create a structured framework and access to knowledge and learning, including planning and holding internal teaching and exercises, etc.

You coordinate and drive cross-organizational capacity building through, among other things, network.

You can, for example, be trained as a disaster and risk manager or have experience with authority work in the municipal emergency response. 

It is important that you have experience with: 
Contingency planning and methodology (policies, programmes, plans, instructions and exercises).
Preparedness and security advice for DTU's university units.
Risk and vulnerability analyses.
Fire legislation and other personal safety.
Handling of sudden incidents and coordination of efforts internally and with authorities.

You enjoy working independently, can maintain an overview and navigate in a large organization. You strive for a high professional level and are able to translate your professional knowledge into concrete, result-creating actions, which ensures high quality in the task solution.

You show independence and dynamism, and you make effective decisions in tasks and cases, often in consultation with colleagues and stakeholders. You communicate openly, without prejudice and respectfully with colleagues, business partners and management.

We expect you to be able to communicate and convey messages in both Danish and English, both orally and in writing.

Organizational location:

The Section for Working Environment and Preparedness, DTU Campus Service, Kgs. Lyngby. 

Salary and terms of employment

Salary and terms of employment in accordance with the collective agreement for academics in the state or other relevant collective agreement. The position is for 37 hours and is wanted to be filled as soon as possible. 

DTU wants to be an attractive, flexible and sustainable workplace, and has, among other things, adopted a partial policy for flexibility in the working day. As an important part of a sustainable working life, DTU thus offers frameworks and job content that support a private and working life in balance.

Application and contact

We must receive your online application by April 7, 2025
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Open the "Apply Now" link, where you fill in the application form and attach a motivated application, CV and diplomas. 

If you would like more information about the position, please contact Section Leader Lars Villadsen at [email protected]
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Jesper Fløche at [email protected]
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 tel. [phone removed]. 

We look forward to hearing from you.

Applications received after the application deadline will not be considered.

All interested persons, regardless of age, gender, disability, race, religion or ethnic affiliation, are encouraged to apply for the position. As DTU works with research in critical technology, with which special rules apply for, among other things, security and export control, open source background checks can be carried out on qualified candidates for the position.

Technology for people

DTU develops technology for people. With our international top-class research and education, we help create a better world, and we contribute to the solution of the global challenges formulated in the UN's 17 global goals for sustainable development. H.C. Ørsted founded DTU in 1829 with a clear mission to develop and utilize natural science and technical science for the benefit of society. That mission lives on to this day. DTU has 13,500 students and 6,000 employees. We work in an international atmosphere and have an inclusive, developing and informal working environment. DTU has campuses throughout Denmark and in Greenland and collaborates with the best universities worldwide.