Production Manager

Keybird Instruments IVS is a start-up developing a lightweight acoustic piano. We are setting up our production and you can play an important role in our production development. Many things are happening, so if you like the process of starting a company and all the little side things that happen in such a process, that will be to your advantage.

We started developing a lightweight acoustic piano, hoping to offer the world a more practical keyboard instrument, without compromising on acoustic sound. Our mission is to bring diversity and accessibility to the world of acoustic pianos, since acoustic pianos as we know them today are very hard to transport and have been streamlined to sound more or less the same. We want to broaden the spectrum of possible sound characters as we develop more models. Having electronic add-on features (like the option to play with headphones) to our piano will help us broaden the possibilities in a useful way for many piano enthusiasts. It will of course be beneficial for you (and us) if you have some sort of a connection with this mission, along with some experience and affinity with piano’s.

The design of our first model is in place, so now we will focus on developing the production and optimising processes. You can play a big role in helping us reach the goal of offering the product for an affordable price while keeping the quality as good as possible.

Our production philosophy is built on a simple principle: using as much sheet material as possible which can be cut by CNC or laser. This means that experience with CAD and CAM will be of great help to you, both when building the product and for designing production aids. A fascination for automation and optimization of production processes should be firmly recognisable within yourself. Doing the actual building of pianos like operating the machines and doing assembly work will be the major part of your work, with the possibility to suggest process and design improvements and to grow towards more responsibility and management areas. 

Our ideal candidate:

• Is open minded, ambitious and effective

• Has a technical background

• Has experience and fascination for CAD/CAM

• Has good skills working with wood

• Has affinity with music

• Takes honour in fast and qualitative work

• Has a high degree of responsibility with whatever he/she does

• likes innovation in general and is good at thinking out of the box

• is fluent in English, preferably also Danish

• Is structured, punctual and organised

• is flexible and eager to learn