Training Center of Excellence Manager

Sandvik; Winnipeg; On-site; CAD 90,000 - 120,000; Full time

Job summary

A global engineering group is seeking a Manager to lead their Training Center of Excellence in Winnipeg, Canada. This role involves developing and executing operational training strategies for underground drilling, collaborating with teams globally, and ensuring technical competence. A university degree in a technical field and excellent English communication skills are required. This position offers strong opportunities for professional development in an international setting.

Benefits

Opportunities for professional development

High impact and visibility role

Inclusive company culture

Qualifications

• Demonstrated good leadership skills and collaboration across cultures.
• Positive and energetic mindset in international business.
• Fluency in spoken and written English is expected.

Responsibilities

• Own underground drilling operational training strategy globally.
• Upskill technical teams for optimized drilling applications.
• Develop operational training programs for global teams.
• Collaborate with different teams and stakeholders.

Skills

Leadership skills

Collaboration skills

Presentation skills

Understanding of mining industry

Fluent English

Education

University degree in technical field

Job description

Do you want to work with innovative and advanced technology and collaborate with some of the largest customers in the mining business?

At our Underground Drilling division, we are now looking for an experienced Manager to lead our Training Center of Excellence. In this role you will conceptualize and establish a world class global training center for underground drilling in close collaboration with all sales areas. This global position offers the unique possibility to build underground drilling operational competence across the technical teams in sales areas. The role is permanent and based in Tampere (Myllypuro), Finland. Position requires extensive international travelling.

Some words about us

The Underground Drilling division within Business area Mining is an industry leading global provider of drilling equipment for underground mining and tunneling industry with focus on technology development and future innovative solutions to enable sustainable operations for our customers. Sandvik Mining and Construction Oy’s Tampere site is a global technology and manufacturing center for Underground Drilling equipment.

Your mission

As a Training Centre of Excellence Manager, your priority will be to understand customer needs and industry trends to plan and execute effective technical training strategies. You oversee the underground drilling technical competence development activities globally and ensure competitiveness, equipment performance and uncompromised safety. Finally, you will lead co-operation between different stakeholders by ensuring great collaboration and communication across teams, functions, borders, and with external partners to shape the future of our industry.

Your main responsibilities

• Ownership of the underground drilling operational training strategy across all underground drilling fleet
• Upskilling technical teams in sales organizations around the world to master optimized drilling, drilling applications and mining processes
• Ensuring right hands-on skillsets in right locations at right times
• Developing underground drilling operational training offering
• Designing and implementing effective operational training programs for technical teams globally
• Proactively collecting and understanding customer needs and industry trends
• Collaborating and leading across different teams, internally and externally

Your background and what we find important

We are looking for a highly motivated, innovative and customer focused leader. You have demonstrated good leadership skills and you have good collaboration and presentation skills. You have a track record of managing stakeholders across cultures. To succeed in this role, you will need to have a university degree in technical field and good understanding of the mining industry and earth moving machinery. You have a positive and energetic mindset, and you enjoy working in an international business environment. Fluent spoken and written English is expected, Finnish language skills are considered an advantage.

Sandvik is dedicated to ensuring the health and work ability of all employees. In line with risk assessments for the underground mining industry, regular health examinations are provided. Employees regularly working underground must successfully complete a specific health examination before an employment contract is offered.

What’s in it for you?

We offer you an interesting role with high impact and high visibility, in a truly international environment as well as opportunities for your professional development. For you this is a great opportunity for you to influence and structure our organization with new and innovative ways of working, in close collaboration with our business and our customers.

We believe that diversity of experience, perspective and background will lead to a better environment for our employees, our business and, thereby, our customers. Sandvik has an inclusive company culture where our values are Winning together, Curiosity, Responsibility, and Customer focus.

Want to join our team?

For further information about this position, please contact the recruiting manager: Päivi Kautiainen, [phone] (weekdays between 16-17 (UTC +2)).

For more information about the recruitment process, please contact: HR Services Finland, tel. [phone] (weekdays between 9-11 and 13-15, EET).

We look forward to hearing from you!

Submit your application and CV including your salary expectation at home.sandvik/careers by Sunday November 30th, 2025.

Click apply and include your resume and cover letter in English. When applying, please make sure to also attach your cover letter when asked to upload your CV. Please note that we don’t accept applications by email.

Job ID: R0085390

About us

Sandvik is a global, high-tech engineering group providing solutions that enhance productivity, profitability and sustainability for the manufacturing, mining and infrastructure industries. Our offerings cover the entire customer value chain and are based on extensive investments in research and development, customer insights and deep knowledge of industrial processes and digital solutions. In 2024, the group had approximately 41.000 employees, sales in more than 150 countries and revenues of about SEK 123 billion.

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