Founded in 1910, KONE is a global leader that provides elevators, escalators and automatic building doors, as well as solutions for maintenance and modernization that add value to buildings throughout their life cycle. Our mission is to improve the flow of urban life and make our world’s cities better places to live by providing innovative solutions that help make people’s journeys safe, convenient and reliable. Our operations in over 60 countries around the world has helped us achieve our position as an innovation and sustainability leader with repeated recognitions by Forbes, Corporate Knights for clean capitalism and others.
KONE’s vision is to create the Best People Flow experience by providing ease, effectiveness and experience to our customers and users. In line with our strategy, Sustainable Success with Customers, we will focus on increasing the value we create for customers with new intelligent solutions and embed sustainability even deeper across all of our operations. By closer collaboration with customers and partners, KONE will increase the speed of bringing new services and solutions to the market.
At KONE Technology and Innovation (KTI), we are imagining and creating the future of People Flow, combining the physical and digital worlds to make cities smarter and everyday journeys better.
We are now looking for a
Lead Engineer, Control System (Electrification)
You will be part of Control System KCE Tribe of KONE Technology & Innovation in Hyvinkää, Finland or in Cadrezzate, Italy and work in close co-operation with other KTI units, sourcing, manufacturing, quality and KONE subcontractors. Main focus on the work is development and product management of Global KONE Control System. You will report to Product Owner and get support from Chapter Lead.
Main responsibilities
-Able to develop electrical system design solutions, take ownership of the design, and guide design activities
-Develop and maintain a global configurable product structure in PDM VariClient Tool
-Maintain and develop interfaces between a Configurable Model and Digital factories, Global testers, Circuit diagrams, Ordering Tool
-Adopting AI solutions into existing design practices and processes and further developing them into standard practices across the team
-Plan & coordinate the tasks to meet the objective within the given time-frames
-Validate configurable models with a systematic logic approach
In order to be successful in this role
-MSc or BSc degree in relevant technical field, preferably electrical engineering
-At least 3-5 years of electrical engineering experience in creating and maintaining configurable circuit diagrams using ECAD tools
-Disciplined working methods with willingness and ability to work as a member of international design team
-Experience in developing and maintaining global configurable product structure(s) in PDM with VariClient tool
-Experience in maintaining and developing interfaces between a Configurable Model and Digital factories, Global testers, ECAD, Ordering tool
-Experience in Lean & Agile working methods is an asset
-Willingness to travel is an asset
We offer
KONE is building up a unique community, aiming to provide the most advanced People Flow™ solutions for its customers and lifting the customer experience to the top. At KONE, we are focused on creating an innovative and collaborative working culture where we value the contribution of each individual and where we share actively ideas. Sustainability is an integral part of our culture and a daily practice. We are proud to offer a range of opportunities that will support you in achieving your career and personal goals and enable you to live a healthy and balanced life. We believe in improving performance through inspiring, engaging, and developing our people.
For additional information please contact Jukka Korpela Program Manager / Chapter Lead [email protected]
Want to join the #PeopleFlow?
If you think this could be your next inspiring challenge, please submit your application as soon as possible via our Careers-site, latest by October 31st, 2026.
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At KONE, we are focused on creating an innovative and collaborative working culture where we value the contribution of each individual. Employee engagement is a key focus area for us and we encourage participation and the sharing of information and ideas. Sustainability is an integral part of our culture and the daily practice. We follow ethical business practices and we seek to develop a culture of working together where co-workers trust and respect each other and good performance is recognized. In being a great place to work, we are proud to offer a range of experiences and opportunities that will help you to achieve your career and personal goals and enable you to live a healthy and balanced life.
Read more on https://kone.com/global/en/careers.html
Skills Required
- Bachelor’s or master’s degree in a relevant technical field, preferably electrical engineering
- At least 3–5 years of electrical engineering experience
- Experience creating and maintaining configurable circuit diagrams using ECAD tools
- Disciplined working methods and ability to work as part of an international design team
- Experience developing and maintaining global configurable product structures in PDM VariClient
- Experience maintaining and developing interfaces between configurable models, digital factories, global testers, ECAD, and ordering tools
- Experience with Lean and Agile working methods
- Willingness to travel
Kone Compensation & Benefits Highlights
The following summarizes recurring compensation and benefits themes identified from responses generated by popular LLMs to common candidate questions about Kone and has not been reviewed or approved by Kone.
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Fair & Transparent Compensation — Pay is considered competitive across many roles and markets, with field positions sometimes benefiting from overtime and strong union scales. Feedback suggests base compensation is often a relative positive even when other factors vary.
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Retirement Support — Retirement programs, including 401(k) and in some regions pension or annuity structures, are consistently highlighted as strong. Feedback suggests these elements meaningfully enhance the overall package.
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Healthcare Strength — Core health coverage is viewed as comprehensive, commonly including medical, dental, and vision options. Feedback suggests a global well‑being framework and EAP resources further reinforce health-related support.
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What We Do
At KONE, our mission is to improve the flow of urban life. This means understanding urbanization and, together with our partners and customers, helping cities to become better and more sustainable places to live. As a global leader in the elevator and escalator industry, KONE provides elevators, escalators and automatic building doors, as well as solutions for maintenance and modernization to add value to buildings throughout their life cycle. Through more effective People Flow®, we make people's journeys safe, convenient and reliable, in taller, smarter buildings. Headquartered in Helsinki, Finland, we operate in more than 60 countries around the world, employ over 60,000 people and serve 550,000 customers. In 2022, KONE had annual sales of EUR 10.9 billion. KONE class B shares are listed on the Nasdaq Helsinki Ltd. in Finland.
