Application Engineering Manager, Underground Drilling

Some words about the Division

The Underground Drilling Division within Sandvik Mining is a market leader in providing industry-leading drilling solutions for our customers in the underground mining and tunneling industries. We work in close co-operation with the sales areas within the Sandvik Mining Business Area, to become customer’s first choice for underground drilling solutions. We have strong customer focus and safety as core values. Our operations are located in Tampere (Finland), Lyon (France), Winnipeg (Canada), Jiading (China), and Pune (India).

We are now looking for an Application Engineering Manager to lead our product development to meet the future requirements of our customers. This position is full-time, permanent, and located in Tampere. Your mission is to lead the application engineering execution for Underground Drilling large mining and construction product range, ensuring efficient, high-quality delivery that meets customer requirements and timelines. You will drive high-quality and customer focused culture to translate business requirements set by Product line into engineering actions and ensure seamless collaboration between engineering and other functions. You will be member of R&D and Product Line management team.

Your key responsibilities

• Lead the application engineering organization, including resourcing, talent development, and competence building aligned with business and customer needs

• Act as an inspirational and supportive team leader for a group of Engineering Managers and demonstrate excellent leadership behaviors through Sandvik core values

• Manage engineering capacity planning to deliver high-quality engineering outputs efficiently

• Lead setting priorities and strategic direction for engineering function based on division strategy and requirements set by Product Line

• Contribute development of new ways to become more agile and customer centric

• Foster culture of innovation, high-quality and customer focus in application engineering

• Ensure timely and high-quality execution of new and current product engineering according to agreed processes and governance.

• Strengthen customer responsiveness by aligning engineering activities with business requirements, field feedback, and offering plans set by Product Line

Your background and what we value

• Bachelor’s or Master’s degree in Engineering in a relevant discipline

• Several years of experience leading engineering teams and preferably in product engineering

• Proven track record in delivering engineering solutions in a customer-driven, high-technology environment with the ability to manage execution, priorities, and cross-functional collaboration

• Experience from leading implementation of various development projects and leading of changes

• Excellent leadership, communication and stakeholder management skills, with the ability to work effectively across functions and engineering departments in other Underground Drilling units

• Proficiency in both English and Finnish is essential for success in this role

Sandvik is dedicated to ensuring the health and work ability of all employees. In line with risk assessments for the underground mining industry, regular health examinations are provided. Employees regularly working underground must successfully complete a specific health examination before an employment contract is offered.

What’s in it for you?

We offer you versatile and interesting tasks in an international business environment, as well as the opportunity to develop your own professional skills and career. In addition, we offer good employee benefits and inclusive corporate culture focused on sustainable development, with values such as Winning together, Curiosity, Responsibility, and Customer focus. We have a hybrid office/home working environment. At Sandvik we believe that the diversity of experiences, perspectives and backgrounds will contribute to successes for our employees, our company and therefore also our customers.

Contact information   

For further information about this position, please contact the hiring manager: Marko Roivas, Vice President R&D and Product Management, Underground Drilling, tel. +358 40 509 5225, on Friday 12th June at 9-10 or Thursday 18th June at 13-14 (EEST).

To learn more about our recruitment process, please visit our career site or contact HR Services Finland, tel. +358 800 1 44444 (weekdays at 9-11 and 12-15 EEST).

Want to join our journey in setting new industry standards?

Submit your application at the latest on Tuesday 23rd June 2026.

We will start interviews already during application time with potential candidates.

Click apply and include your cover letter with your salary request and CV in English. Please note that we don’t accept applications by email.

Job ID: R0093199

About our company

Sandvik is a global, high-tech engineering group providing solutions that enhance productivity, profitability, and sustainability for the manufacturing, mining and infrastructure industries. We are at the forefront of digitalization and focus on optimizing our customers’ processes. Our world-leading offering includes equipment, tools, services and digital solutions for machining, mining, rock excavation, and rock processing. In 2025, the group had approximately 42.000 employees, sales in more than 150 countries and revenues of about SEK 121 billion.

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