Senior Manager, Electrical

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This is for you who wants to have a real impact on creating a healthier planet for our children every day. At Neste, you will be working for the world’s leading producer of sustainable aviation fuel and renewable diesel and a forerunner in developing renewable and circular feedstock solutions for polymers and chemicals. Let’s create transformation for a sustainable future together.

We are looking for you,

Senior Manager, Electrical

to our Technology and Process Development team in Porvoo, Finland.

Technology and Process development team is part of Neste’s Oil products platform, which focuses on supporting Neste’s target to transform our Porvoo refinery into Europe’s most sustainable refinery. The tasks in the team include seeking of new technologies, developing best practices and optimization tools as well as securing the correct technical solutions and uniformity in the transformation projects. 

Besides working closely within the team, in your role you will collaborate with maintenance, operations and design engineers. Being in the Senior Manager role, you will be in the leading position when making the crucial decisions in your field of expertise to secure a safe, reliable and effective refinery. Together with you and your expertise, we can make an impact today and keep our promises for tomorrow.

Reasons to join
Real impact right now. We work in an inspiring and evolving business environment, where everything we do serves one purpose: to create a healthier planet for our children. To drive a growing impact as a global leader in renewable and circular solutions we live by our values every day; we care, we have courage, we cooperate.

Safety and caring. We value safety always and everywhere. We want our work to feel good and do good. At Neste, we nurture a culture where everyone is welcome and feels safe, respected and encouraged to be their unique true selves. 

Exciting growth. Transformation brings new possibilities and fosters our courage and curiosity. As a global growing company we support personal development with versatile learning and career opportunities. Collaboration is the key, and we believe in flexible, smart ways of working.

In addition, our benefits for employees in Finland include, for example, a personnel fund as part of the overall remuneration, good occupational health care, and an extensive membership in a sickness or health insurance fund. We also support leisure time activities, e.g. by offering benefits for sports and culture.

The job is located in Kilpilahti, Porvoo, which is about 30 minutes by car from the center of Helsinki. We organize free bus transportation to Kilpilahti for our employees from the capital region, Porvoo and the nearby areas.

More about the job

Your role in our team

• Supporting refinery transformation projects as the leading specialist of electrical solutions in cooperation with the integrated project teams

• Making decisions in projects on behalf of Oil Products platform regarding choices within the discipline during the project’s early phases, securing the functionality of the solution throughout the whole lifetime

• Setting the requirements for the projects regarding safety, availability, maintainability and operations in collaboration with asset management and operation teams

• Development of the Neste specifications for electrical solutions

• Participating to project works, e.g. engineering reviews, vendor negotiations and vendor selection

• Development and ownership of discipline technology best practices

The best combination to succeed in this role

• Relevant technical degree, e.g. electrical engineer or similar. Preferably B.Sc or higher.

• As a senior manager role the successful candidate should bring relevant 15+ years of industrial experience in electrical engineering or management

• Solid knowhow on electrical solutions and requirements in a refinery environment

• Relevant project experience and knowhow of the requirements in different project phases in an investment project

• Fluent spoken and written English, knowledge of Finnish is considered as a benefit.

• Good collaboration, communication and leadership skills

• Ability to obtain techno-economical elements from created solutions and specifications.

• Safety mindset and create long lasting safe solutions

Other strengths we value 

As the refinery world is going towards carbon neutrality one key replacement will be electrical solutions. Hence knowledge of novel electricity based solutions to reduce carbon footprint is considered as a notable benefit.

Let’s get you started
Wondering whether we are a match or not? Take a short test at neste.com/game.

We look forward to receiving your CV and application (with a salary request) by 5th of May, 2024.

If you have any questions regarding the process or the position, please get in touch with Olli Visuri, Head of Technology and Process Development (Phone: +358 50 458 9685) on 22 of April between 9-11 am or 29th of April between 12-1 pm.

We will do our best to contact you within 2 weeks after the application time has ended. The recruitment process will include interviews and a possible aptitude assessment. The first interviews are preliminarily scheduled to take place on weeks 19-20. The person selected for the position must pass a health examination including a drug test. A security clearance is obtained with their consent.