Quality Manager

Do you want to be part of our dynamic quality team in the European market area?
EMEA is Valmet's biggest market area when measured by our business volume. Today we operate close to our customers in 59 locations and in 18 countries in order to ensure that it is always easy for our customers to work with us in their local language and according to local policies. Our vision is to become a global champion in serving our customers and we are committed to helping our customers to have safe and more reliable operations. Quality has a significant role in reaching that target. Would you like to join the journey?

We are looking for an experienced and innovative quality professional to join EMEA quality team as Quality Manager. The Person we are looking for enjoys working with people, providing trainings, and developing quality skills in our organization. We expect you to have broad experience from quality management and ability to coach our teams towards a higher quality maturity. The work will be to support our production workshops and our sales and project teams in quality related matters.
Another part of the work is to develop processes and lead different initiatives and improvement projects as needed. You will be an advocate for continuous improvement and for that great communication and networking skills are necessary.
Valmet EMEA business includes wide range of technologies covering the whole Valmet service offering. As part of EMEA quality team, the scope of your responsibilities is EMEA wide, and you have good possibility to positively impact Valmet quality performance towards our customers. You will be working closely with business supporting them in quality management and process development with your operational excellence, lean or six sigma experience.

Main responsibilities:
• Provide quality support, coaching and trainings to our EMEA organization
• Lead process improvement and implementation
• Participate or lead assigned quality development projects and development activities
• Facilitate root cause analysis and continuous improvement
• Contribute to quality communication
• Participate in EMEA quality reporting

Expectations:
To be successful in this position we expect you to have:
· At least 5 years of experience of quality management, business or operations development roles
· Excellent written and verbal communication skills in English
· Experience from process development and preferably also IT solution development
· Practical experience from problems solving and use of quality tools (VSM, Lean, six sigma, SPC, RCA)
· Good understanding of quality management and ISO standards and experience from auditing
· Degree (BSc or MSc) on engineering or manufacturing
· Excellent project management and co-operation skills
· Availability and willingness to travel occasionally

We offer:
We offer you an interesting and independent position in a global business environment with many opportunities for personal growth and development. Together with Valmet professionals, you will have an important role in bringing Valmet’ and our customers’ business forward. The position can be based in Karlstad or Tampere, Jyväskylä. Other Valmet main location in EMEA can also be considered. Valmet is a smoke free workplace.

Additional information
If you are interested in becoming part of EMEA quality team, send your application by January 22th, 2023. We are already eagerly waiting for your application.
If you want to know more, please contact Aino-Ilona Uusinoka, Director, EMEA quality +358504876704 on 9.1. 14-16:00 or 16.1. 12-14:00

When everything works together
Valmet is where the best talent from a wide variety of backgrounds comes together. With 17,500 professionals around the world, we are the leading global developer and supplier of technologies, automation and services for the pulp, paper and energy industries, and serve an even wider base of process industries with our automation systems and flow control solutions. Our commitment to moving our customers’ performance forward requires creativity, technological innovations, service know-how – and above all, teamwork.