Jobs at Valmet

Manage regional sales of energy management, advanced process control, optimization, and digital automation solutions. Own the full sales cycle, develop go-to-market strategies, define pricing, negotiate complex B2B deals, build customer relationships, and deliver revenue, pipeline, and market expansion targets across Europe and globally.

Leads Valmet’s North American Automation PPS Regional Services organization, overseeing service managers, field teams, and project managers. Drives profitable growth, customer satisfaction, employee engagement, service delivery quality, revenue, margins, and financial performance. Establishes service standards, manages budgets and forecasts, pursues new service opportunities, monitors project performance, implements global processes, and ensures compliance with health, safety, and environmental policies. Requires progressive leadership experience in industrial automation or service operations and travel throughout North America.

Lead plant engineering discipline for global pulp, paper, bioenergy, and circularity projects. Coordinate plant layout and piping design, guide technical design and installation, review documentation, and manage schedules, budgets, resources, procurement quantities, and multidisciplinary reviews. Support customer-site installation remotely and on location, while contributing to process improvements. Requires extensive process-industry piping design experience, engineering education, knowledge of design standards, E3D/PDMS, AutoCAD, Microsoft Office, and fluent Swedish and English.

Develop and improve reference management concepts, processes, governance, tools, and data foundations supporting lifecycle business and customer experience. Collaborate across business, sales, services, delivery, IT, and digital teams to optimize asset and installed-base data, improve operational efficiency, align business needs with digital solutions, promote best practices, and drive organizational change.

Lead plant engineering activities for pulp, energy, and circularity projects, including layouts, equipment, piping, ducting, supports, detailed design, calculations, and Boiler and evaporator area modeling. Coordinate engineering inputs, schedules, quality deliverables, and customer, site, shop, and engineering-unit interfaces. Lead and develop engineers and designers while applying ASME and EN codes, strength calculations, and flexibility analysis.

Lead engineering projects for equipment design in the Pulp & Power sector, ensuring HSE and regulatory compliance. Develop and review AutoCAD and SolidWorks drawings, coordinate global engineering resources, support field measurements, troubleshoot at customer sites, and drive continuous improvement of engineering tools and processes. Travel to customer sites ~20-30%.

Develop mill electrification solutions for complete tissue mill deliveries during the sales phase. Define delivery scope, compile technical specifications and cost estimates, select and combine solutions, and collaborate with internal teams and external partners to deliver proposals on time. Support sales with technical expertise and participate in customer meetings; some travel required.

Support, maintain, and enhance legacy DCS software for mission-critical industrial automation. Troubleshoot customer issues, develop fixes and support tools, perform testing and release activities, analyze logs/specs, coordinate field service, document solutions, and drive continuous improvement to improve reliability and performance.

Lead architecture and development of embedded Linux platforms: Yocto builds, kernel configuration, drivers, real-time C/C++ applications, BSP integration, debugging/profiling, cross-team collaboration, mentorship, and long-term platform maintainability and security.

Develop process-based customer solutions for complete tissue mill deliveries, define delivery scope, compile technical specifications and cost estimates for sales proposals, select and combine products, and collaborate with internal teams and external partners to deliver projects on time.

Leads mechanical engineering projects for energy and recovery equipment, ensuring designs meet customer, safety, and organizational standards. Develops and reviews AutoCAD and SolidWorks drawings, coordinates global engineering resources, supports presentations, troubleshooting, field measurements, installation modifications, and site service activities. Collaborates with product, sales, field service, and project management teams while driving engineering process improvements. Requires 20–30% travel to customer sites.

Responsible for driving Automation Systems sales within the Pulp and Paper industry across the USA Northeast. Build and manage customer relationships, identify market opportunities, execute strategic sales initiatives, collaborate with cross-functional teams for technical support and customized solutions, and report market insights to product and R&D teams. Will travel within the territory and must hold a valid driver’s license.

Provides technical and commercial support for PEC sales across the CEN region. Develops service solutions, prepares proposals, manages costing and margins, coordinates proposal teams, and oversees field service projects. Leads negotiations, builds customer relationships, identifies new business opportunities, and supports marketing activities. The role requires engineering or business education, technical sales or project experience, fluent German and strong English, proficiency with MS Office, and willingness to travel 20–40%.

Process and register customer inquiries in ERP, prepare techno-commercial quotations, size and select valves/actuators, ensure compliance with technical and legal requirements, coordinate with customers and internal teams, track quote progress, and hand over orders for contract processing.

Manage industrial tissue-converting projects end-to-end, from order intake through customer-site commissioning. Coordinate engineering, production, technicians, customers, and international stakeholders; track scope, quality, safety, schedule, profitability, milestones, risks, issues, and changes. Lead design reviews and factory acceptance tests, manage customer punch lists, support site activities, maintain project documentation, and improve coordination processes. The role requires industrial project management experience, fluent English, stakeholder leadership, and frequent international travel.

Lead global procurement for hydraulics, pneumatics, and electrical components. Responsibilities include supplier management, purchase order monitoring, price negotiations, spend analysis, sourcing strategy, cost-saving initiatives, supplier qualification, contract compliance, inventory management, and cross-functional support for sales and project bidding.

Lead execution and delivery of pulp, energy and circularity projects across North America. Act as primary customer contact, define project organization, manage schedule, budget, risk, HSEQ and warranty issues, coordinate multi-discipline teams, report to stakeholders, and support technical proposals to ensure project deliverability.

Leads automation project delivery for Valmet DNA DCS systems, including project planning, technical definition, application engineering, system integration, testing, FAT/SAT, installation, commissioning, documentation, change management, reporting, safety, customer handover, and service transfer. Collaborates with customers, project managers, and engineering teams while supporting domestic and overseas site activities.

Manage press felt and belt product offerings across Asia Pacific, driving growth, profitability, market share, product competitiveness, pricing, launches, sales support, product development, technical training, and customer solutions. Collaborate with global technology, sales, marketing, and product teams to set targets, support deliveries, transfer technologies, monitor competition, and develop commercial materials. Requires engineering knowledge, pulp and paper sales experience, strong communication skills, English proficiency, and willingness to travel.

Lead supplier quality assurance by defining product quality requirements, communicating and approving supplier documentation, driving supplier development and corrective actions, performing audits and inspections, and collaborating cross-functionally to ensure compliance and continuous improvement.