Service Engineer, Automation Systems

Are you the new service-minded team player we are looking for?

At Valmet, we serve our customers keeping in mind our core commitments: safety comes first, close to customers, solutions to your needs and people you can trust. Our solutions improve our customers’ business profitability, having established our role as a trusted partner in pulp and paper and energy industries and are very proud of what we do.

Your main activities will be

Customer and Service Support:

As a service engineer, you’ll serve our customers by providing planned maintenance, troubleshooting and service, focusing on our own portfolio products. You’ll work independently to deliver service activities and participate in project implementation and start-up together with our project resources. You’ll work mainly in Portugal but are available also for regional assignments in South Europe when needed. Your contribution to actively support our service sales is expected. You’ll promote service solutions that bring added value to our customers, and you’ll train our customers to use Valmet solutions in the most efficient way.

What you’ll need to be successful in the role

You can be either experienced professional or newly graduated – main thing is your attitude and willingness to learn! You like instrumentation, electronics, programming and have technical skills. To be successful in this role, you’ll need in addition:

• Relevant educational background such as bachelor’s degree in engineering or recognized technical school with experience.

• Experience in the field of instrumentation is a plus.

• Experience with electronics, electrical cabinets and programming is a plus.

• Ability to work under pressure in different customer situations and in different cultural environments.

• Self-managed and ability to set your own daily and weekly priorities with the customer.

• Passion for serving customers and for collaborating with your colleagues.

• Passion for applying world-class technology to our customers benefit.

• Knowledge of our customers’ processes, mainly Pulp and Paper are considered as an advantage.

• Fluent in English. Other languages are plus.

• A valid driving license and willingness to travel.

We offer

We offer you a rewarding position within a global industry leader and an opportunity to help our customers succeed. You will be part of a skilled and international team of 11 people based in Portugal that values your contribution and is willing to support your desire for learning. Our office is located Ovar, but you can also work remotely from home on the days you are not in the customer site. We will train and onboard you well to have all the tools you need to perform excellently in your daily challenges. At Valmet, you’ll be working in a leading global company of 19000 professionals with good opportunities for professional development.

Additional information
Does this sound like your next challenge? We look forward to hearing from you, apply latest by June 19.

That feeling when… everything works together is what makes working at Valmet unique!
Valmet is where the best talent from a wide variety of backgrounds comes together. With 19.000 professionals around the world, we are the leading global developer and supplier of technologies, automation and services for the pulp, paper and energy industries. Our commitment to moving our customers’ performance forward requires creativity, technological innovations, service know-how – and above all, teamwork.

Join the team!