Project Manager, LAE Workshop Operation

Lead End-to-End Industrial Projects as Project Coordinator

Are you ready for the next step in your career? We are looking for a Project Coordinator who enjoys driving projects from order release through completion while working closely with customers, workshop teams, and cross-functional stakeholders. In this role, you will be the key link between customers and internal teams, ensuring rolls and equipment are delivered according to scope, schedule, quality, and profitability targets. You will coordinate workshop and subcontractor activities, manage project execution, track progress, and solve challenges before they impact delivery. If you thrive in industrial environments and enjoy balancing customer expectations, operational execution, and business results, this is an opportunity to make a real impact.

Your responsibilities

• Lead project execution from order release through completion and project closure.
• Develop, maintain, and optimize project schedules, ensuring delivery dates and milestones remain accurate and up to date.
• Coordinate activities across Customer Service, Workshop Operations, Procurement, Logistics, subcontractors, and other stakeholders.
• Act as the primary customer contact, providing regular project updates, delivery status, and resolution of project-related issues.
• Monitor project progress, identify risks and deviations, and coordinate corrective actions to keep projects on track.
• Manage vendor and subcontractor relationships while ensuring alignment with project requirements and timelines.
• Track project costs, profitability, additional work estimates, and cost deviations throughout project execution.
• Maintain project documentation, inspection reports, service reports, shipping documents, and business system records.
• Prepare project reports, budget updates, invoices, performance summaries, and lessons learned reviews.
• Drive continuous improvements in project execution, lead-time reduction, delivery performance, and profitability.

Expectations from you

• Bachelor's degree or higher in Mechanical Engineering, Industrial Engineering, Manufacturing Engineering, Mechatronics Engineering, or a related engineering discipline.
• Minimum 5 years of experience in project management, workshop operations, engineering, manufacturing, maintenance, or industrial service environments.
• Proven experience managing customer projects in an industrial setting.
• Experience preparing project schedules, execution plans, project documentation, and progress reporting.
• Ability to read and interpret mechanical drawings and technical documentation.
• Strong understanding of workshop repair, machining, manufacturing, and service processes.
• Good knowledge of project planning, scheduling, execution follow-up, and project coordination.
• Strong commercial and financial awareness with experience monitoring project costs and profitability.
• Proficiency with Microsoft Office and ERP/business systems.
• Fluent English communication skills, both written and spoken.

To succeed in this role

Success in this role requires proven experience managing industrial customer projects while balancing delivery performance, profitability, quality, and customer satisfaction. You bring strong project planning and coordination capabilities, are comfortable working across multiple functions and stakeholders, and can effectively manage risks, schedules, documentation, and project finances. A solid understanding of industrial workshop operations, manufacturing or maintenance processes, combined with strong communication and customer relationship skills, will help you excel.

We also expect you to align with Valmet’s Leadership Principles—practical behaviors that guide how we lead, collaborate, and succeed together:

• Take accountability – Act with ownership, set clear expectations, and follow through
• Lead with courage – Champion change, try bold ideas, and learn quickly
• Build on trust – Listen to understand, be open, and create psychological safety
• Collaborate for growth – Work across boundaries, value diverse perspectives, and focus on customer value

We offer

You will join a team responsible for delivering customer projects involving rolls and equipment through Valmet workshops and subcontractor networks. The team manages project planning, scheduling, execution follow-up, customer communication, documentation, financial performance, and continuous improvement initiatives. Working closely with Customer Service, Workshop Operations, Procurement, Logistics, and customers, the team plays a critical role in ensuring projects are delivered on time, within scope, and with strong profitability. The environment is highly collaborative and customer-focused, providing opportunities to influence project outcomes and drive operational excellence. You will contribute to improving delivery performance, reducing lead times, and enhancing the customer experience while working on technically demanding industrial projects.

Valmet offers an inspiring and challenging position with opportunities for professional growth and development. You will work in a collaborative and international environment where innovation, learning, and continuous improvement are encouraged. We value our employees and provide modern tools, learning opportunities, and a workplace where you can make a meaningful impact.

When everything works together

Valmet is where the best talent from a wide variety of backgrounds comes together. We work together with our customers throughout the entire lifecycle, delivering cutting-edge technologies and services as well as mission-critical automation and flow control solutions. Backed by more than 225 years of industrial experience and a global team of over 19,000 professionals close to customers; we are uniquely positioned to transform industries toward a regenerative tomorrow.

At Valmet, diversity of thought drives innovation. We are committed to a respectful and inclusive environment, where people can be themselves and are supported to contribute at their best. We welcome applicants from all backgrounds and make hiring decisions based on skills, experience, and potential, never on personal characteristics such as gender, gender identity, age, ethnicity, nationality, disability, neurodiversity, religion, sexual orientation, or political views.

Join the team – and lead the way with us!

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