HR Generalist ISE Norway and Denmark

One of Konecranes’ core competitive advantages is its highly skilled, motivated, and engaged employees. Konecranes HR supports business leaders, line management, and employees in all people and organizational matters to ensure business success and job satisfaction.

Now we are looking for an HR Generalist to join our Scandinavian HR Team, responsible for providing HR and TA support for over 100 employees based in Norway and Denmark. The HR team consists of HR Manager, HR Generalist for ISE Sweden, HR Generalist for Lift Trucks Sweden, Payroll Sweden, Payroll & Admin for Norway and Payroll & Admin for Denmark.

Are you our new HR Generalist for Norway and Denmark?

We see that you live in either Norway or Denmark to be able to provide local support in those countries.

As an HR Generalist at Konecranes, you will play a key role in partnering with business leaders to drive both operational and strategic HR priorities. In this fast-paced environment, your ability to work flexibly, solve problems, and balance short- and long-term objectives will be essential. A key mission is to deliver an exceptional employee experience, ensuring Konecranes is an engaging workplace where employees can learn, grow, and thrive. Your contributions to people excellence will directly enable business success.

In this role, you will take ownership of HR key projects and activities aligned with the company’s annual Human Resources planning cycles. These include processes such as Performance Management, Salary Review, Engagement Surveys, Learning & Development, and Diversity & Inclusion initiatives aimed at driving cultural change. Additionally, you will manage the entire recruitment cycle – from sourcing and interviewing to assessing candidates and closing processes. Developing and enhancing recruitment and talent acquisition practices, while promoting Konecranes as an attractive employer, will be a core focus.

Diversity and Inclusion will be a priority, and you will work to actively engage managers in fostering a more inclusive culture. This position requires close collaboration with business leaders, your HR team colleagues, and the HR Shared Service team in Tallinn. By combining a strategic perspective with hands-on execution, you will help meet the long-term business needs of Konecranes while ensuring candidates and employees are respected, heard, and supported.

To succeed in this role, you need strong communication and relationship-building skills, as well as the ability to navigate a role with multiple stakeholders such as managers, union representatives, and HR colleagues. You should enjoy driving development for organizations, teams, and yourself. You have a proactive mindset, a can-do attitude, and the ability to work independently while balancing operational and strategic tasks effectively.

We are looking for someone with at least five years of HR Generalist experience in a large organization, including full-life cycle recruiting. Knowledge of Norwegian and/or Danish labor law is required.

Fluency in and English is essential, Norwegian and/or Danish is a plus.

Why join us?

You will be part of a great, supportive team where you will be allowed to develop yourself and grow within your profession. If you thrive on working in an international environment with colleagues in various locations, this is the job for you. We offer a hybrid work model with a significant portion of autonomy in your daily work. As a world-leading brand, Konecranes offers a variety of opportunities for personal development for all employees. We put trust in our people and believe that each and every one of us makes a difference.

Learn more about Konecranes as an employer and what your future colleagues have to say by checking career stories on YouTube https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AklPBQd_p0I&t=1s or our site www.konecranes.com under Careers: Meet our people.

Interested?

We welcome you to apply via our career site. We appreciate early applications and reserve the right to finalise the recruitment process once the suitable candidate for the role has been identified.

Please submit your application in English.

This is a full-time position, located in Norway or Denmark.

The job includes occasional travel within Scandinavia, both day trips and overnight stays.

In this role, you will report to the HR Manager Scandinavia.

For further information about the role, please feel free to contact the hiring manager Charlotte Blohm Johansson, charlotte.blohmjohansson@konecranes.com.  

Konecranes moves what matters. We are a global leader in material handling solutions, serving a broad range of customers across multiple industries. We consistently set the industry benchmark, from everyday improvements to the breakthroughs at moments that matter most, because we know we can always find a safer, more productive and sustainable way. That's why, with 16 000+ professionals in over 50 countries, we are trusted every day to lift, handle and move what the world needs.

Konecranes is committed to ensuring that all employees and job applicants are treated fairly in an environment which is free from any form of discrimination.