Provide day-to-day leadership for a cross-functional development team, fostering ownership, accountability, and effective collaboration.
Work closely with NPD Engineering to ensure the team has the right allocation and competencies required to achieve business and development objectives.
Contribute to the performance and professional development of team members in cooperation with NPD Engineering.
Drive execution in alignment with the defined system architecture and technical direction, while proactively identifying and escalating architectural impacts, risks and trade-offs.
Lead integration, validation and testing activities, including simulation, SIL/HIL and prototype testing, ensuring readiness for verification and release.
Identify, manage, and mitigate technical, resource and delivery risks, providing transparent status updates and escalation when needed.
Ensure the team follows agreed engineering practices and quality standards, including code reviews, testing, documentation and CI/CD processes.
To shine in this position, we hope you to have
B.Sc. or M.Sc. in Engineering or equivalent technical education.
At least 8 years of experience in product development or engineering, ideally within mobile machinery, robotics, automotive or related industries.
Demonstrated ability to lead and coordinate cross-functional teams in a matrix organization.
Solid understanding of multidisciplinary system development and integration, including software, electrical, hydraulic and/or mechanical systems.
Experience driving development activities, managing dependencies, and delivering results according to agreed schedules and objectives.
Strong interpersonal and influencing skills, enabling effective collaboration without formal people management responsibility.
Clear communication skills, with the ability to work effectively with technical experts and business stakeholders alike.
A structured, pragmatic and hands-on approach to problem solving.
Familiarity with safety-critical product development is an advantage.
Fluent written and spoken English.
As an employer, we support your well-being with benefits such as: ePassi for lunch and Flex benefits (sports, wellness, and culture), occupational health care and specialist-level treatment through our work ability insurance, access to Auntie’s mental well-being services and more. We also support degree-oriented studies that benefit Normet with 10 paid working days per year. In addition, we have an active HYVÄ Normet leisure committee, which organizes various leisure and sports-related events throughout the year.
Read more about working at Normet: https://www.normet.com/en/discover-normet/careers
Come and share your courage to shine with us: in a courageous, committed and caring company. Together with our customers, we have courage to lead the way in sustainable underground mining and tunnelling by building the safest places underground. We shape the future of underground work through the integration of advanced automation and intelligent systems into our mobile work machines. By embracing higher levels of autonomy, we are enhancing both safety and operational efficiency in even the most demanding environments. Your expertise will contribute to the development of next-generation smart technologies—such as real-time data analytics, remote operation, and machine learning—that empower safer, more sustainable operations. You’ll collaborate with a forward-thinking team dedicated to pioneering digital solutions that transform the landscape of underground mining.
We are looking forward to hearing more about you. We welcome your application and CV by Sunday the 6 Dec 2026 through our career website, please click on the apply-button. We will go through the applications and continue with potential candidates already during the application period, so do not hesitate to send an application if this position interests you!
For further information, please contact Olli Mylläri, VP, Technology, nr +358 40 7330 744 on 20 Nov between 13 – 14 or 26 Nov between 12 – 13.
Come and share your courage to shine with us!
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