Responsibilities and key activities
Performs basic core engineering work by transforming ideas, specifications, by executing tasks within related solution creation process. Engineer develops and maintains products and services, including Digital services, technical design in line with KONE Solution Creation Process, KONE standards and guidelines and applicable engineering tools.
Responsibilities:
General
- Accountable for ensuring overall elevator system level technical consistency.
- Responsible for advising and guiding the teams on technical risk assessments, Corrective Actions (CAs), simulations, root cause analysis and incident investigation.
Interface management
- Accountable for governing the interfaces within a system which are not critical from integration and business point of view.
- Responsible to refer Interfaces which affect system architecture (system level, cross-category, and category level) to Systems Architecture Management (SAM) governance, who has decision making authority on such critical interfaces.
- Accountable to ensure that Interfaces within responsibility are defined as per the system level requirements, and the corresponding Interface requirements are properly documented and maintained in relevant KONE tools.
New product development initiatives
- Accountable for technical system requirements creation and their change management. SEs play the process roles, as a technical expert from system point of view.
- Accountable and responsible for requirement decomposition and allocation to component and subsystem level, based on the requirements and specifications defined by product manager, architect and other stakeholders.
- Accountable for creation and execution of system integration plan and system Verification & Validation plan. Contributes to review component and subsystem level Verification & Validation plans.
Lifecycle management of products
- Accountable and responsible for Interfaces checks during product change management e.g., Change Requests (CRs).
- Accountable for creation and execution of system integration plan and system Verification & Validation plan.
Skills and Qualifications
Bachelor's degree and above knowledge in mechanical engineering. At least 5 years of elevator experience, good understanding of whole elevator. Strong sense of ownership and self-motivated & passion to win. Results-oriented approach with a “can-do” attitude. Excellent collaboration skills across R&D teams and other cross functional organization. Fluent communication and present skills in English. Rich experience on leading successful projects in elevator. Enjoying working with the dynamic & fast paced work environment, comfortable with uncertainties. Research / testing / development methodologies
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Skills Required
- Bachelor's degree or higher in Mechanical Engineering
- At least 5 years of elevator industry experience
- Strong understanding of complete elevator systems
- Experience creating system requirements, requirement decomposition, and change management
- Experience creating and executing system integration and Verification & Validation plans
- Experience with technical risk assessments, corrective actions, simulations, root cause analysis and incident investigation
- Proven experience leading successful elevator projects
- Excellent collaboration and cross-functional communication and presentation skills in English
- Self-motivated, strong ownership, results-oriented mindset; comfortable with dynamic and uncertain environments
- Familiarity with research, testing, and development methodologies
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.
Kone Insights
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.
