Factory Services Manager, Production Equipment Lifecycle and Electrical Work Supervision

Join us in influencing the travel of hundreds of thousands of people and the movement of tonnes of freight. At VR FleetCare, we ensure that rolling stock is fit for service. We invest in the future and enable a low-emission way to travel and transport goods. Our operations are guided by continuous development and the latest technology. We are seeking a Factory Services Manager to be responsible for the lifecycle management of production equipment and supervision of electrical work in our Factory Services unit in Helsinki or Oulu. Factory Services is responsible for maintaining production machinery, equipment and tools and ensuring their safe and reliable operation. We ensure that scheduled maintenance, statutory inspections and calibrations are carried out as planned. We also improve equipment reliability, manage technical risks and support production with investments, modernisations and equipment lifecycle management. In this role, you will be responsible for the long-term development of FleetCare's production equipment and act as an S1-class electrical work supervisor under the Electrical Safety Act at our different sites. You will ensure that critical production equipment remains safe, operational and able to meet production needs in the future. You will report to the Factory Services unit manager and work closely with Factory Services maintenance managers, production and suppliers. The primary workplace is Helsinki or Oulu. The area of responsibility covers FleetCare's different sites, so the role requires regular travel in Finland. Your responsibilities include: • Acting as an S1-class electrical work supervisor and ensuring electrical safety and regulatory compliance. • Developing the reliability of critical production equipment. • Managing criticality classifications, failure-impact analyses, and monitoring and analysing failure trends. • Developing spare-parts strategies, spare-parts risk management and spare-parts inventories. • Identifying technical equipment risks and preparing risk-management measures. • Technically preparing replacement investments, modernisations and other development projects. • Developing and analysing equipment data, reliability and maintenance indicators. • Working with production, suppliers and other stakeholders to develop production equipment. We expect you to have a suitable higher-education degree in electrical engineering (UAS, MSc in Engineering or equivalent), a valid S1 electrical qualification, experience with industrial production equipment, electrical systems or maintenance, and experience developing technical entities. You must be able to act as the statutory electrical work supervisor from the start of employment. You can understand broad technical systems and draw analytical conclusions, and you are interested in developing equipment reliability, lifecycle management and technical risk management. You have fluent Finnish and the ability to work in English, an initiative-taking, long-term and solution-oriented approach, and good collaboration and communication skills. Why choose us? Your work will influence the daily lives and travel of hundreds of thousands of people and the movement of thousands of tonnes of freight. You will work alongside 9,500 professionals in Finland and Sweden. We offer diverse training and learning opportunities, various career paths, and comprehensive employee benefits for sports, culture and lunch. We support work and leisure travel and offer diverse travel and recreation opportunities at staff prices in Finland and abroad. You will have occupational health services that support your overall wellbeing, as well as modern tools and workspaces. Our work focuses on customers and growth, as well as employee wellbeing. Our open feedback culture supports development, learning and succeeding together. We are on a fair and meaningful journey together. You are an important part of our journey just as you are: together, we are building a better tomorrow. Interested? Great! Submit your application through the link provided by 26 October 2026. Would you like more information? The Factory Services Unit Manager, Pasi Paakkinen, can provide further information from 12 to 16 October by email at pasi.paakkinen@vr.fi or by phone at 050 5985947. At VR FleetCare, we provide rolling-stock maintenance, modernisation, lifecycle management and expert services, as well as vehicle manufacturing. We serve customers in the Nordic countries and the Baltic region. More than 160 years of experience in northern conditions and over 1,000 industry professionals make us a strong rail-maintenance specialist. Join us in building the future of rail transport!