Manufacturing Engineer

Are you passionate about optimizing industrial processes and ensuring high-quality production?

At Valmet , we are shaping the future of sustainable packaging and paper solutions through innovation, collaboration, and a seamless lifecycle approach. Join us in advancing the packaging and paper business, as we move forward with our renewed strategy to Lead the Way. This means pioneering smarter technologies, expanding our service capabilities, and delivering customer value across the entire lifecycle—from raw material to finished product. If you're ready to make a real impact in a dynamic, future-focused environment, we invite you to grow with us.

We are looking for a Manufacturing Engineer to join our team in Cernay. This role is crucial for overseeing and optimizing roll reconditioning processes in our workshop, ensuring efficiency, quality, and safety while meeting customer requirements.

Your Responsibilities

• Define and implement efficient roll reconditioning processes.
• Optimize workflows to improve quality and reduce lead times.
• Standardize operating procedures, work instructions, and best practices.
• Analyze production data and KPIs to identify areas for improvement.
• Ensure compliance with safety, quality, and environmental regulations.
• Participate in defining tooling and equipment needs for roll maintenance.
• Develop and maintain production schedules to ensure on-time delivery.
• Coordinate with maintenance and supply chain teams for resource allocation.
• Support quality inspections and resolve non-conformities.
• Provide technical support and troubleshooting to production teams.
• Lead continuous improvement projects using lean manufacturing principles.
• Identify opportunities for automation and digitalization in production.
• Train and mentor workshop teams on new production techniques.

What We’re Looking For

• Engineering degree in Mechanical Engineering, Industrial Production, or Manufacturing Technology.
• 3–5 years in production or manufacturing, ideally in roll maintenance, rotating equipment, or machining operations.
• Knowledge of mechanical processes for roll maintenance (machining, balancing), production planning, and process optimization.
• Strong problem-solving and analytical thinking, excellent teamwork and communication, proactive mindset focused on continuous improvement.
• Fluent in French and English required; German will be considered a plus.
• Familiarity with Microsoft 365 tools (including Power Platform features).

Why Join Us?

We offer a rewarding position within a global industry leader and an opportunity to be part of an exciting and challenging journey. You’ll join a motivated team of professionals and have access to continuous competence development.

Application deadline : January, 30 2026

When everything works together
Valmet is where the best talent from a wide variety of backgrounds comes together. With over 19,000 professionals around the world, we are the leading global developer and supplier of technologies, automation and services for the pulp, paper and energy industries, and serve an even wider base of process industries with our automation systems and flow control solutions. Our commitment to moving our customers’ performance forward requires creativity, technological innovations, service know-how – and above all, teamwork.
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