Director of Engineering Excellence

FI115 Valmet Technologies Oy; Tampere; On-site; EUR 180,000 - 280,000; Full time

Job summary

Valmet Technologies Oy is seeking a Director of Engineering Excellence to lead the development of engineering capabilities, processes, digital solutions, and AI initiatives across the PEC business line. You will translate business priorities into actionable programs, coach the Engineering Excellence team, and govern engineering data and tools.

The role requires extensive leadership experience, a strong understanding of engineering processes, and fluency in English.

Qualifications

• Proven people leadership experience, including coaching, competence development, prioritization, and resource planning.

Responsibilities

• Lead the Engineering Excellence function and translate business priorities into development initiatives and measurable outcomes.
• Provide leadership, coaching, and resource planning for the Engineering Excellence team.
• Own and continuously develop engineering processes, performance metrics, and improvement activities.
• Coordinate the development and governance of engineering, data, and document management tools and solutions.
• Lead and steer digital development initiatives supporting engineering and product management.
• Own and maintain the Global Engineering AI roadmap, linking business priorities with practical engineering use cases.
• Coordinate collaboration across engineering, business, technology, data, and IT organizations.
• Drive adoption of new ways of working that improve engineering productivity, quality, and business impact.

Skills

People leadership

Coaching

Stakeholder management

AI in engineering

Digital transformation

Education

University degree in Engineering/Technology/Information Management

Job description

Join Valmet's Global Engineering organization as Director, Engineering Excellence and lead the development of engineering capabilities, processes, digital solutions, and AI-related initiatives across the Pulp, Energy and Circularity (PEC) business line.

Your responsibilities

• Lead the Engineering Excellence function and translate business priorities into development initiatives and measurable outcomes.
• Provide leadership, coaching, and resource planning for the Engineering Excellence team.
• Own and continuously develop engineering processes, performance metrics, and improvement activities.
• Coordinate the development and governance of engineering, data, and document management tools and solutions.
• Lead and steer digital development initiatives supporting engineering and product management.
• Own and maintain the Global Engineering AI roadmap, linking business priorities with practical engineering use cases.
• Coordinate collaboration across engineering, business, technology, data, and IT organizations.
• Drive adoption of new ways of working that improve engineering productivity, quality, and business impact.

Expectations for you

• University degree in Engineering, Technology, Information Management, or another relevant field.
• Several years of experience in engineering leadership, engineering development, digital transformation, or a similar global function.
• Proven people leadership experience, including coaching, competence development, prioritization, and resource planning.
• Strong understanding of engineering processes, engineering data, document management, and digital solutions.
• Experience developing strategies, roadmaps, governance models, portfolios, and performance indicators.
• Understanding of AI opportunities within engineering and experience translating technology possibilities into business value.
• Strong stakeholder management and collaboration skills across business, engineering, technology, and IT organizations.
• Ability to drive change, build alignment, and deliver measurable results.
• Fluent written and spoken English.
• Experience from process industries, project-based engineering organizations, product management, or large-scale transformation programs is considered an advantage.

To succeed in this role

You combine strategic thinking with a practical approach to execution. You are comfortable leading change across organizational boundaries and can balance long-term development with business needs. You bring structure to complex initiatives, build alignment among stakeholders, and focus on outcomes that improve engineering performance. You understand the connections between people, processes, data, and technology, and how they contribute to effective engineering delivery.

What this role offers

This is an opportunity to influence how engineering develops and operates across a global technology company. You will work at the intersection of engineering, digitalisation, data, and AI, helping shape future ways of working while supporting current business performance. You will collaborate with experienced professionals across Valmet and play a key role in developing engineering capabilities that support long-term business success. Valmet is where professionals from a wide variety of backgrounds work together to support customers throughout the lifecycle of their operations. We deliver technologies, services, automation, and flow control solutions to process industries worldwide. At Valmet, diversity of thought drives innovation.

We welcome applicants from all backgrounds and make hiring decisions based on skills, experience, and potential, never on personal characteristics such as gender, gender identity, age, ethnicity, nationality, disability, neurodiversity, religion, sexual orientation, or political views.

Join the team and shape the future with us.

Valmet is a global technology leader in serving process industries. We work with our customers throughout the lifecycle, delivering cutting-edge technologies and services, as well as mission-critical automation and flow control solutions. Backed by more than 225 years of industrial experience and a global team of 18,500 professionals close to customers, we are uniquely positioned to transform industries toward a regenerative tomorrow. In 2025, Valmet's net sales totaled approximately EUR 5.2 billion. Our head office is in Espoo, Finland, and we have experts in approximately 40 countries around the world. Valmet's shares are listed on Nasdaq Helsinki.

To protect our candidates' privacy, Valmet will never ask any personal information such as banking information or social security number during the recruitment process.