Laboratory Engineer to Stora Enso Innovation Centre for biomaterials

We are looking for a summer worker, a Laboratory engineer for the Emerging business bio-based fibres and films team. The film developing team is working very closely with a strong focus on new technologies and customer’s needs. Your location will be Stora Enso Innovation Centre for biomaterials in Sickla, Stockholm.
Stora Enso is a leading global provider of renewable solutions in packaging, biomaterials, wooden constructions and paper. Come grow a renewable world. And you will grow too.
As a laboratory engineer, you will develop methods for processing of materials and their related  composition that yield film materials of targeted specifications. Together with the other team members, your challenge is to develop films with the targeted technical properties and cost structure that can be sold as packaging material.
By working in the Innovation Centre you will be part of a dynamic international and interdisciplinary environment. We have high focus on health and safety and you will together with your colleagues consider safety throughout all aspects of work, and ensure that safety standards in the laboratory are in line with safety procedures and routines.
What we offer
With our values, “Lead and Do what’s right”, we endeavor to set an example in all aspects of our business as well as sustainability. We dare to take the initiative and constantly ask ourselves what more we can do and what can we do better. This is an excellent opportunity for you to be a part of the journey Stora Enso is on – transforming from a traditional forest industry company, into a renewable materials growth company – an industry with great potential driven by global megatrends. As a summer laboratory engineer you have the opportunity to develop in an international environment and to gain valuable work and laboratory experience, with a business in focus.
Greeting from your future manager
 “The motivation should be a wish to see your own creations as sustainable products in the society, as new packages on the shelf in any retailer store. The fun is the challenge of overcoming technical difficulties. A successful outcome is a powerful reference for future positions within the packaging and material industries, as well as within academia”.
Qualifications
Are you the one? In order to succeed in this role, you have good experience in laboratory work. Your proficiency is based on ongoing studies or a completed degree within organic chemistry or material science. Experience from industrial R&D on films and/or coatings are advantageous.
You are a great communicator and communicate fluently in English, and have good knowledge in Microsoft office tools. If you speak Swedish, Finnish or German those are all advantageous. You are technically interested with a strong focus on taking on assignments that could result in useful products within short time. You are also accurate when it comes to reporting and able to communicate technical results in a good way, both oral and in writing. You have a dynamic work attitude with an analytical and systematic approach as well as excellent team working skills.  
We are flexible when it comes to working period, but we believe beginning of June until the end of August to e a great period for this job.
Additional Information
Do you want to make a world a better place? Join the renewable materials company. Please submit your application via our recruitment system latest by April 3rd, 2020. Hiring manager Mikael Gällstedt, mikael.gallstedt@storaenso.com is happy to answer your questions about the position. Other questions can be directed to Recruitment Specialist Sarah Söder, sarah.soder.ext@storaenso.com. We accept applications submitted only through our recruitment system.
Union representatives are Jesper Ekström, jesper.ekstrom@storaenso.com and Heikki Lotti, heikki.lotti@storaenso.com.
Prospective employees are screened for drug use in the pre-employment examination.
We believe diversity strengthens our competitiveness and diverse working teams enable us to explore different perspectives and challenge our way of thinking, contributing to better decision-making. We work actively to increase equality and diversity in the workplace and are therefore happy to see applicants contributing to this.
The Biomaterials division offers a wide variety of pulp grades to meet the demands of paper, board, tissue, textile and hygiene product producers. We maximise the business potential of the side streams of our processes, such as tall oil and turpentine from biomass. Based on our strong innovation approach, all fractions of biomass, like lignin and sugars, hold potential for use in various applications.
Part of the bioeconomy, Stora Enso is a leading global provider of renewable solutions in packaging, biomaterials, wooden construction and paper. We employ some 26 000 people in more than 30 countries and our shares are listed on the Helsinki (STEAV, STERV) and Stockholm (STE A, STE R) stock exchanges.
Our fiber-based materials are renewable, recyclable and fossil free. Our solutions offer low-carbon alternatives to products based on finite resources. We believe that everything that is made from fossil-based materials today can be made from a tree tomorrow.
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