Director, Engineering Excellence & AI Strategy

Valmet; Göteborgs kommun; On-site; SEK 1,200,000 - 1,700,000; Full time

Job summary

Valmet's Global Engineering organization seeks a Director, Engineering Excellence to lead development of engineering capabilities, processes, digital solutions, and AI initiatives across the PEC business line. In this role, you will drive engineering excellence by creating common ways of working, improving performance, steering digital development, and leading the AI roadmap in a global context.

You will collaborate across engineering, IT, and business units to enable long-term capability

Qualifications

• University degree in Engineering, Technology, Information Management, or another relevant field.
• Several years of engineering leadership, digital transformation, or global function experience.
• Proven people leadership, including coaching, competence development, prioritization, and resource planning.
• Strong understanding of engineering processes, data, document management, and digital solutions.
• Experience developing strategies, roadmaps, governance models, portfolios, and performance indicators.
• Understanding of AI opportunities within engineering and translating tech into business value.
• Strong stakeholder management across business, engineering, technology, and IT.
• Ability to drive change and deliver measurable results.
• Fluent written and spoken English.

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

Engineering leadership

Digital transformation

AI opportunities

Stakeholder management

Change management

Education

University degree in Engineering or related field

Tools

Data governance tools

Job description

Valmet's Global Engineering organization seeks a Director, Engineering Excellence to lead development of engineering capabilities, processes, digital solutions, and AI initiatives across the PEC business line. In this role, you will drive engineering excellence by creating common ways of working, improving performance, steering digital development, and leading the AI roadmap in a global context.

You will collaborate across engineering, IT, and business units to enable long-term capability