Founded in 1910, KONE is a global leader that provides elevators, escalators and automatic building doors, as well as solutions for maintenance and modernization that add value to buildings throughout their life cycle. Our mission is to improve the flow of urban life and make our world’s cities better places to live by providing innovative solutions that help make people’s journeys safe, convenient and reliable. Our operations in over 60 countries around the world has helped us achieve our position as an innovation and sustainability leader with repeated recognitions by Forbes , Corporate Knights for clean capitalism and others.
KONE’s vision is to create the Best People Flow experience by providing ease, effectiveness and experience to our customers and users. In line with our strategy, Sustainable Success with Customers, we will focus on increasing the value we create for customers with new intelligent solutions and embed sustainability even deeper across all of our operations. By closer collaboration with customers and partners, KONE will increase the speed of bringing new services and solutions to the market.
KONE Technology and Innovation Unit (KTI) is where we combine the physical world – escalators and elevators – with smart and connected digital systems. We are changing and improving the way billions of people move within buildings every day. We are on a mission to expand and develop new digital solutions that are based on emerging technologies.
KONE R&D brings together top talent from different disciplines into an industry-leading product and technology organization. We thrive in solving complex customer challenges, connecting legacy with the latest technologies, across hardware and software engineering. In fact, roughly half of our R&D roles are in software. Agile ways of working mean that we are better able to meet our customers’ rapidly evolving needs for speed and innovation, in a global environment.
Technology and innovation careers - KONE Corporation
We are now looking for a Senior Engineer, Mechanics, R&D Value Engineering to join one of the Elevator mechanics and Mechanics & Materials Tribe agile teams for designing mechanical load bearing components and mechanical sub-systems at KONE Technology and Innovation / R&D in Hyvinkää, Finland.
Our tribe works in a hybrid model, 3-4 days/week in the office in Hyvinkää and couple of days a week remotely. Please notice that this role requires the selected candidate to live permanently in Finland.
Elevator Mechanics & Materials tribe is responsible for developing all mechanical elevator components in KONE portfolio globally and ensuring the safety, quality and performance of those components throughout their entire lifecycle. We are actively scouting for opportunities to create new value for our customers by implementing new innovative and more sustainable elevator designs throughout Value Engineering. Senior Engineer, Mechanics has a crucial role in executing the added customer value.
As a Senior Engineer, Mechanics, you will
-Be passionate for design activities within the component portfolio of your agile team
-Be R&D value engineering process and engineering aspects setter for the mechanical engineers in your agile team
-Contribute and drive new design and change initiatives and designs forward within the global organization with Value Engineering mindset
-Collaborate closely with the other Elevator Mechanics tribe agile teams and members in R&D component creation projects for new elevator products in Hyvinkää, Finland
-Collaborate closely with other R&D tribes and parallel functions globally.
-Cooperate with KONE factory, suppliers and supply chain to ensure smooth engineering and delivery structures for sub-systems
-Be part of KTI project development activities to ensure quality, safety, and cost competitiveness of elevator products throughout Value Engineering and cost awareness
To be successful in this position, you will
-strong machine design, 3D modelling and manufacturing drawings creation skills
-be able to independently work with new mechanical designs and change request initiatives in the organization
-possess a curious mindset and a strong desire to bring customer benefit with cost-optimized solutions
-have capability to plan and drive things forward and do own design solutions in parallel with several simultaneous projects.
-be capable of reviewing designs, programming scripts, improving manufacturing drawings, collaborate and think innovative ways when guiding other mechanical engineers during their work
Requirements for the role
- Degree in Mechanical Engineering or similar and having 5+ years work experience
- Understanding mechanical drawings, design criteria for load bearing structures and cost- friendly manufacturing methods and product structures
- Experienced user of 3D modelling software, such as, Creo
- Experienced user of Windchill, VariPDM and PDMVC tools
- Experienced user of MS Office tools, such as, Excel and Word
- Proven skills in delivering good results on time even in complex cases within tight schedules
- Capability to lead in a fast-paced environment
- Disciplined working methods with willingness and ability to contribute, lead and work as a member of an international design team
- Passion for great service / customer experience / cost-friendly solutions
- Fluent in written and spoken English
For additional information, please contact Petteri Valjus Chief of Engineering tel. +358 40 8440194 from Mon to Fri between 9 – 15 o’clock EET.
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You will be working with highly dynamic teams significantly investing time and effort on how we develop our products, services, and solutions. You get a chance to work with and participate in further developing products that are used by billions of users daily. Products that are widely recognized by their quality and innovation.
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If you think this could be your next inspiring challenge, please submit your application as soon as possible via our Careers site https://careers.kone.com/en/find-jobs latest by June10th, 2026.
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At KONE, we are focused on creating an innovative and collaborative working culture where we value the contribution of each individual. Employee engagement is a key focus area for us and we encourage participation and the sharing of information and ideas. Sustainability is an integral part of our culture and the daily practice. We follow ethical business practices and we seek to develop a culture of working together where co-workers trust and respect each other and good performance is recognized. In being a great place to work, we are proud to offer a range of experiences and opportunities that will help you to achieve your career and personal goals and enable you to live a healthy and balanced life.
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