Start-up Engineer

Do you want to be a front-line expert in delivering the world's leading papermaking technology to our customers?

Paper business line supplies board, tissue and paper machinery as well as equipment and machine rebuilds for the board, tissue and paper industries. In Paper business line we achieved the all-time high financial result in year 2020 as well as best first quarter in 2021.

We are looking for assertive and independent Start-up Engineer who has good social skills and ability and willingness to learn and share expertise with others.

Paper Business line's Project Operations is responsible for the commissioning of paper and board machines around the world, therefore start-up engineers work a great deal of their working time at our customers' paper mills around the world.

Your main responsibilities will be:

• elaborate testing and commissioning plan together with Automation supervisor and Paper technology manager
• provide both hands-on and classroom training to customer's personnel
• be an expert of paper making and related processes
• providing technical support to customer's personnel during machine tuning phase
• prepare training materials in cooperation with training coordinators
• support in factory acceptance tests when needed
• separate trouble shooting tasks
• reporting

Due the nature of the work, your office location can be any Valmet location in Finland.

Expectations for you

You have a relevant technical education such as Bachelor or Master of Science at paper technology or process technology. We appreciate previous experience of paper and board making industry.

Good knowledge of spoken and written English is essential and other languages (especially Finnish) are an asset. This job requires the ability to travel more than 150 days a year.

Excellent negotiation skills and capability to work under varying pressure and in different situations helps you in this position. However, the most important skill is willingness and enthusiasm to learn new things and persistence to get the job done no matter of the challenges together with site crew!

We offer

We offer you an interesting and varied work in the global Project Operations and the opportunity to develop your own professional skills. You get involved with your client's success and get full support from your professional and committed team in vibrant global environment.

Additional information

Did we catch your interest? Join our team and send your application with your CV and salary request via the link provided as soon as possible but no later than 24th of October 2021. We are reviewing applications already during the application period.

For further information, please contact Heikki Mäenpää, +358 40 511 7714, [email protected] or Jussi Marttinen, +358 50 317 0457, [email protected] or Marko Riepponen, +358 40 522 9208, [email protected]. During week 42 calls to Jussi and Marko.

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