Product Specialist, Automation

We are now looking for a Product Specialist, Automation to a permanent position in Tampere.

Automation has a key role in future crushing and screening operations targeting to safe, efficient and environmentally friendly production. Automation, remote monitoring and related digital services will enable new ways to serve our customers better in the long term.

Your responsibility as a Product Specialist, Automation is to support implementation of the strategic plan to ensure competitiveness of automation and control systems on Metso Business Line products. You will report to Director, Automation. As a Product Specialist you will work together with the product management team to implement the automation and digital roadmap and help with automation related activities to support their business goals. You will prepare sales, marketing and training related documents to promote automation both internally and externally. Your target is to ensure that the automation offering is well-known by direct and distribution channels to increase customer satisfaction and build reputation of the Metso brand.

As a Product Specialist, your main tasks and responsibilities are:

• Understand the market and customer needs; and consolidate them into action items on automation offering roadmap together with product management and technology teams

• Provide high-level product support, technical expertise, and technical training for automation offering

• Maintain automation development backlog with engineering to ensure development tasks have right prioritization and timing

• Follow and analyze product performance indicators such as sales and quality data

• Develop and keep sales and technical training materials as well as marketing materials up to date together with related teams

• Drive new product releases and follow up products updates, and create related product bulletins to inform sales and services about upcoming changes

• Host customer visits and give product presentations to customers, distributors and internal stakeholders

To Succeed

You have the following knowledge, skills, and abilities:

• Bachelor or Master degree in IT, Automation, Industrial Engineering or other relevant educational background

• Experience in industrial automation or mobile machinery controls systems

• Eagerness to learn new technologies, processes and tools

• Good presentation skills, experience in training is an advantage

• Proactive and systematic way of working and excellent skills in problem solving

• Ability to evaluate technical solutions and build conclusions on facts and real findings in the area of control systems and digitalization

• Knowledge of crushing and screening business and aggregates applications is an advantage

• Fluent written and spoken English skills

We offer

We offer you an independent and versatile role in a global organization. We have friendly and respectful working culture where you get to work with multiple external and internal stakeholders. This is an interesting and challenging position with possibility to grow and an excellent opportunity to work in a global community.

As a newly combined company Metso Outotec creates a unique workplace. Combining the strengths of two companies, we offer a stronger platform for growth and innovation. We have an environment that combines result-driven and respectful culture in an exceptional way. Of course, we offer you all the benefits and opportunities of a big, global company.

Additional information

For further information about this role, please contact Toni Peltomäki, Director, Automation by email: toni.peltomaki@mogroup.com or by phone: +358 44 5051460.

Please send your CV and application with your salary expectation via Metso Outotec Careers page latest by 19 February 2023.