Operations Engineer Trainee

At Konecranes, we believe that great customer experience is built on the people behind the Konecranes name – people committed to providing our customers with lifting equipment and services that lift their businesses. Everything we do, we do with passion and drive.

We believe diversity drives business success and is the foundation for our growth. We welcome different backgrounds and skills that enrich our community, and we promote a place where we can ALL be ourselves. This is what makes Konecranes a unique place to work.
 

Want to kick start your career among the top professionals of lifting businesses and be a part of a winning team who supports and encourages you as you take your first steps in your professional career? Every year Konecranes employs hundreds of students in various fields, varying from technicians to engineers and future business experts.

We strive to be an attractive employer for you at every stage of your career – when you land your first summer job, when you want to grow and have more responsibilities or perhaps when you want to spread your wings internationally – we aim to support you at all stages of your life. Are you ready to start your journey to the top of the crane industry? Keep reading and lift your skills to the next level with Konecranes!

Do you want to apply your problem-solving skills to systems combining networking, software, and hardware on a large fleet of connected machines and the digital services which are enabled by state-of-the-art solutions? Would you like to be part of a modern, multi-disciplinary team and help run our IoT operations smoothly?

We are looking for an Operations Engineer Trainee to join our Machine Data Platform team in Espoo/Hyvinkää. As an Operations Engineer Trainee you will be working together with specialists and software developers to maintain Konecranes digital services, which will enable our end customers to run their operations safely, environmentally friendly and with high productivity. You will also work closely with our systems engineers and Global Technical Support, helping them keep our machines running with high uptime and availability.

We will train you to be able to take responsibility in making sure our services and operations run smoothly. The job is located in Espoo and Hyvinkää with the possibility to work partly remotely.

This role is ideal for a computer science or telecommunications student who is eager to learn more about IoT, Industrial Internet and connected machines. You are welcome to Konecranes as yourself, but we especially value your good teamwork skills, hard-working attitude, and enthusiasm for developing yourself. Our work environment is highly international, so proficiency in English and the courage to work in an international work environment are important.

Requirements:

• Suitable education (a degree, a certification or currently studying for one) in electronics, computer science, telecommunications, automation engineering or a related field
• Expertise with at least one of the technologies mentioned below:
  • Experience (practical or academic) with industrial computer systems, Windows and/or Linux servers and/or embedded systems
  • Computer networking and/or telecommunications skills
  • Knowledge of diagnostics and/or testing systems
  • Electronics expertise
  • Suitable education or degree
  • Problem-solving mindset
  • Willingness to learn
• If you also have some of the following skills or expertise in your pocket and you could bring some extra value to the team with them, please let us know what experience you have with:
  • Automation systems, such as Step7 and TIA Portal
  • An incident management system
  • A monitoring system, such as Zabbix, Nagios or Datadog
  • Bash scripting
  • Cybersecurity and certifications
• Previous experience as an operations engineer, testing engineer or equivalent is also an advantage as well as customer centric mindset. If you any questions related to skills and expertise required in this role, feel free to contact us.

Why join Konecranes?  

At Konecranes, you will get to develop your professional skills and apply your academic knowledge in practise. Being part of our team, you will have a job in a good spirited (our opinion, but true to us), cross organizational agile organization. This role offers multiple opportunities for enriching your professional career and bring your talent to the team that creates new digital services and solutions. With us, you will contribute to the digital transformation program that we hope will change the lifting industry through the power of software!

Our team works closely with Konecranes Industrial Internet that connects, gathers, analyses and presents data from Konecranes built equipment and from the global field service IT system. We implement digitalization initiatives and introduce digital solutions that include a multitude of web and mobile applications, all based on the latest software engineering know-how and designed to address the key needs of our customers and businesses.

Konecranes is a world-leading group of Lifting Businesses™ and this means that the platforms that our team designs and develops, will be serving a broad range of customers, including manufacturing and process industries, shipyards, ports, and terminals, around the globe.

At Konecranes, we want to foster an environment where people enjoy their work, feel respected and trusted, and are provided with challenging and interesting responsibilities together with unlimited career advancement. Does this sound like something you would appreciate? 

Interested?

Please submit your Trainee application via Apply -link below.

For further information about the role, please contact Mihaela Ban,Global Talent Aquisition Specialist  via email (mihaela.ban@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.