Senior Powertrain Engineer

Do you want to work with innovative and advanced technology and collaborate with some of the largest customers in the mining business?

Our Underground Drilling Division Power Systems & BEV team is currently looking for a proactive Senior Powertrain Engineer. The role is full-time, permanent and located in Tampere (Myllypuro), Finland.

Some words about us

The Underground Drilling division within Business area Mining is an industry leading global provider of drilling equipment for underground mining and tunneling industry with focus on technology development and future innovative solutions to enable sustainable operations for our customers. Sandvik Mining and Construction Oy’s Tampere site is a global technology and manufacturing center for Underground Drilling equipment.

Your mission

As a Senior Powertrain Engineer, you are part of the engineering team, developing a variety of powertrain components, modules and subsystems for the underground drills’ product family. You act as an expert in powertrain systems, supporting technology selection, system architecture decisions and long-term platform development. You are responsible for implementing and participating in validation of new components and functionalities while applying modularity, commonality and value engineering principles throughout the product development lifecycle.

Your main areas of responsibility include vehicle powertrain systems and related thermal management solutions. The powertrain can be conventional diesel-powered, diesel-electric or fully electric. While your role is primarily focused on mechanical engineering topics within powertrain systems, it also offers opportunities to work with battery-electric vehicle (BEV) technologies and components. Depending on your experience and interests, the role can be shaped to leverage your specific expertise and strengths.

You collaborate closely with driveline component suppliers and cross-functional teams across engineering, testing, manufacturing, product support and spare parts to ensure robust and cost-effective solutions throughout the product lifecycle. You can plan and lead commissioning and validation activities in collaboration with our component suppliers.

You are willing to travel occasionally and ready to work in an underground mining environment when required.

Your background and what we find important

We are looking for a person who has a suitable technical education (M.Sc. or B.Sc. in Engineering) and several years of experience in the design and development of powertrain and cooling systems, driveline components and related subsystems. You are a team player who commits to Sandvik core values and can also work independently, proactively and with a long-term mindset. As an advantage we consider your previous experience in mobile machinery design, powertrain systems and commissioning. Experience with Siemens NX and Teamcenter Active Workspace is considered an advantage. Fluent spoken and written English is expected, and Finnish language skill is considered as an advantage.

What’s in it for you?

We offer you an interesting role with high impact and high visibility, in a truly international environment as well as opportunities for your professional development. For you this is a great opportunity for you to influence and structure our organization with new and innovative ways of working, in close collaboration with our business and our customers. In addition, we offer good employee benefits, hybrid work and inclusive corporate culture focused on sustainable development.

We believe that diversity of experience, perspective and background will lead to a better environment for our employees, our business and, thereby, our customers. Sandvik has an inclusive company culture where our values are Winning together, Curiosity, Responsibility, and Customer focus.

Want to join our team?

For further information about this position, please contact the recruiting manager:

Juha-Matti Hänninen, Engineering Manager Power Systems & BEV, tel. +358 40 746 6245.

For more information about the recruitment process, please contact:

HR Services Finland, tel. +358 800 1 44444 (weekdays between 9-11 and 12-15, EET).

We look forward to hearing from you!

Submit your application and CV including your salary expectation at home.sandvik/careers by Sunday September 27th, 2026.

Click apply and include your resume and cover letter in English. When applying, please make sure to also attach your cover letter when asked to upload your CV. Please note that we don’t accept applications by email.

Job ID: R0091616

About us

Sandvik is a global, industrial technology 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 and revenues of about SEK 121 billion in more than 150 countries.

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