Production Testing Lead Engineer

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 Production Testing (Senior) Lead Engineer, Machines & Drives for a fixed-term parental leave replacement until the end of 2027. to be a part of a Production Testing team in KONE. The Production Testing team is improving production quality and manufacturing processes related to elevator and escalator systems globally. The team is responsible of developing and supporting functional testing platforms across global production sites. As part of our hybrid way of working, we are looking for a candidate who is permanently living in Finland and able to work from our Hyvinkää office at least three days per week. Certain responsibilities, such as laboratory work, may require additional onsite presence from time to time. Main responsibilities Application implementation for drives and machines testing Support test engineering in factories Participate to test platforms development Being as a contact point between testing stakeholders We expect you to have B.Sc. or M.Sc. degree in a relevant field Experience in TestStand and LabView Knowledge of electrical design Knowledge of electrical systems and functions About 3-5 years of experience in production testing of electrical modules Ability to work in a team as well as independently Active problem solving, collaboration and fluent communication skills in English Willingness to travel For additional information reach out to Jani Mäkelä, Manager & Chapter Lead, Production Testing Technology Development jani.makela@kone.com or call +358 44 992 4677 on September 10th 9:00 - 10:00 o’clock EET. We offer We can offer strong support in your personal growth and global opportunities for future career development at KONE. We believe in inspiring, engaging and developing our people. If you think this could be your next inspiring challenge, please submit your CV and application letter via our Careers-site latest on September 16th, 2026. #LI-KTI #LI-Hybrid 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.