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VELUX is the market leader in the manufacturing of skylights for residential and commercial buildings. We create fully customizable daylighting systems for happier, healthier living and working environments. For nearly eight decades, generations of homeowners, architects and builders have trusted our innovative designs and time-tested quality to naturally brighten homes, hospitals, schools, offices, hotels and manufacturing facilities.
Products: VELUX engineers and manufactures a full line of quality structural and unit skylights, continuous vault, and translucent wall systems. Systems are available with a wide range of finish colors, custom sizes, and glazing options including energy efficient, hurricane, photovoltaic and electrochromic.
Markets/Customers: Customers include architects, roofers and builders in commercial and residential construction. The VELUX facility in Wells produces new and replacement skylights that are installed throughout North America.
Career/job opportunities: VELUX is seeking dedicated and career-minded individuals to join our organization. As a company, we believe people should constantly develop. That’s why we offer many different career possibilities to match your skills and ambitions in various fields of interest including mechanical engineering, CNC operation, machining and general labor. To view positions and apply, visit veluxusa.com/careers.
Company benefits: We offer competitive pay and comprehensive benefits that include: Health, dental and vision insurance, short-term and long-term disability, accidental death and dismemberment, life insurance, cancer protection insurance, flexible spending accounts, matched 401(k) retirement plan, education assistance, maternity and parental leave, vacation and sick day programs, 11 paid holidays, service recognition program and much more!
Community engagement: VELUX has a strong commitment to the communities where our employees and their families live. Local organizations that we have sponsored and supported include the Wells Harbor Shellfish Lab, United Way, and York County Community College, to name a few.
Sustainability: Sustainability has always been the way we do business. We work continually to integrate sustainability into decision making and how we run our business — from the suppliers we choose, to our production methods right until the end-of-life handling of our products. By 2030, we want to reduce emissions from our own operations by 100% and cut our value chain emissions in half. In addition, by 2041, we plan to have reduced and removed the equivalent of our entire historical emissions from our operations.
85 Spencer Drive, Unit A. Wells, ME 04090
Phone: 800.888.3589
Founded: 1979
Value Stream Manager: AJ Tate
Full-time/ FTE employees: 100
Headquarters: Greenwood, S.C.
Additional Company Locations: Greenwood, SC and Sparks, NV
School: University of Maine
Years at company: 5
Position: Senior Manufacturing Engineer
“With the custom nature of Skylights produced here in Wells, every day offers new and exciting challenges. I have grown personally and professionally which has led to several opportunities for me to move into different positions. VELUX truly cares about its employees and wants to see them succeed. Velux is a great company to work for!”
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