Engineer / Senior Engineer - Installation

KONE; Coimbatore District; On-site; INR 900,000 - 1,300,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Career progression

Learning and development programs

Global exposure

Job summary

KONE is seeking an Engineer / Senior Engineer - Installation for its Trichy team. You will manage project scope, cost, and schedule, while ensuring customer satisfaction and cross-functional collaboration across KONE teams.

This role emphasizes governance, risk management, and safe, efficient installation practices within a global leader in elevators and escalators. Join a company focused on improving urban life and delivering comprehensive learning and development programs with a clear path for

Responsibilities

• Accountable for project scope, cost, and schedule management.
• Promote proactive customer communication and understand customer needs.
• Lead the full project team to meet customer expectations.
• Set targets and plan resources and competences.
• Manage risks and upsides; promote value through variations during the project lifecycle.
• Coordinate integrated project planning with customers and KONE teams.
• Ensure project governance with gates and reviews as per complexity.
• Oversee financial planning, cash flow, and revenue management.
• Drive Sales-to-Operations handover quality and project close activities.
• Maintain safety awareness and promote lean practices.

Job description

Did you know KONE moves over one billion people every day? In 2025, we had annual net sales of EUR 11.2 billion. We employ over 60,000 driven professionals in close to 70 countries worldwide joined together by a shared vision. As a global leader in the elevator and escalator industry, it is our mission to improve the flow of urban life.

Why this role?

KONE is embarking upon an exciting growth phase and this represents an opportunity for you to join our Trichy team, as a Engineer / Senior Engineer - Installation.

What will you be doing?

• Accountable for project scope, cost, and schedule management, and delivering the project within the defined contractual requirements and KONE objectives
• Proactive management of customer communication throughout the project, understanding of customer needs, objectives and promoting a trustful environment.
• Manages, leads and encourages the full chain project team to meet customer's expectations. Communicates clearly, transparently and promotes active collaboration and caring of each other to reach mutual success for KONE and the customer.
• Sets clear targets for the project and plans accordingly. Plans and ensures sufficient project resourcing and competences.
• Ensure continuous risk and upsides management of the project, with specific focus on risk identification, mitigation, planning, escalation if needed and recovery actions, and on the other hand adding value by promotion of variations selling during the whole life-cycle of the project
• Ensure integrated project planning and management with customers and KONE full chain teams.
• Responsible for successful project framework implementation meaning project gates and project reviews according to project complexity with special focus on project governance (i.e. steerings)
• Ensures correct project's financial planning and forecasting, cash flow management and revenue management.
• Responsible for actively driving Sales-to-Operations handover quality, responsible for handover to Customer as well as project closing activities.
• Maintains safety awareness amongst employees and subcontractors leading by own example. Is aware of safety customer requirements and KONE Safety workplace requirements
• Planning of the Installation and tester resources together with relevant resource manager. Promoting the usage of lean practices at work.

What do we offer?

• Career progression opportunities within a global organization.
• Total reward elements that engage and motivate our employees and help us make KONE a great place to work.
• Comprehensive learning and development programs covering a wide range of professional skills.

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.

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