Giant Leap Trainee, Industrial Engineering

Are you ready to take a Giant Leap? We’re looking for a Industrial Engineering Trainee for our Giant Leap program – a project-based internship in our HQ in Vantaa. Sensor Factory machine pool renewal project aims to improve product costing accuracy. As a concrete outcome we will have documented and transparent logic for machine pool. As a Giant Leaper, you will get your own project to lead for three months, starting in June.

Vaisala is a global leader in measurement instruments and intelligence helping industries, nations, people, and the planet to thrive. From predicting hurricanes to optimizing renewable energy production, our technology is used where it matters the most – from data centers, windfarms and laboratories to airports, the Arctic and even the surface of Mars. Our team of over 2,300 experts and 59 nationalities around the world is committed to taking every measure for the planet. Driven by our shared purpose, curiosity, and pioneering spirit, we stay ahead and make a difference. At Vaisala, you don't have to fit in to belong.

Giant Leap is a unique opportunity for you to be the project manager of your own project, with the support of your teammates and project supervisor. Every year, these projects are carefully selected by our leadership teams, meaning that you get to work on real-life questions that are important for us as a company.

We invest in your growth with training sessions throughout the summer. Along with lessons from your own field and work life in general, you have a chance to learn, for instance, presentation skills, project management and problem solving. Connections built with fellow Giant Leapers, Vaisala’s brilliant experts and our leadership form an invaluable network for your career. Many of our former Giant Leapers have also gone on to build impressive careers at Vaisala after the program.

What will your summer look like?

• Analyze different ways to absorb machine costs to different products, seek for common understanding about boundaries and limitations for optimized system, define routing time logic and define machine pool costs, present new logic and get approval for its implementation.
• Beef of the project is to explode the old dusty out-dated machine pool logic and present a new model, which is modern, data-based, transparent and easy to maintain.
• Your project is essential to Vaisala as it improves product costing accuracy.
• Expected results of the project are documented logic of new machine pools and matrix how different products use machine pools. Also written guidelines for maintaining machine pools is needed.
• You will work with Sensor factory product development and process development team members and experts from Finance& Control.  Your supervisor Juulia is passionate about project topic and developing/coaching people. We have easy-going, welcoming atmosphere at office and colleagues are eager to help in any kind of issue.
• You will learn about sensors used in Vaisala products, high-tech machinery, equipment and testers used in cleanrooms to produce these sensors and product costing, and how these interact.
• You will work at Vaisala HQ, to be more accurate at sensor factory support area. We do appreciate your presence at office, but remote work to some extent is also feasible.

What kind of skillset are we looking for?

• Industrial engineering is probably most suitable, but various backgrounds are possible. You must be able to learn new things, and build new competence during summer
• Data analysis, visualization of complex system and interest in product cost structure, negotiation skills
• Can do attitude, independent working style, easy to approach other people,

Are you ready to take on a Giant Leap? Apply at the latest on February 2, 2025 and please attach your CV. We’d also appreciate learning about what made you apply for this position and to Vaisala in the form of a motivation letter.

Schedule and steps of the recruitment process:

Application period: January 13 – February 2
Invitations to the interview events: during week 6 (February 3 – February 7)
Interview events at Vaisala, Vantaa (F2F): February 11 and February 13
Selections and signing of the contracts: during week 8 (February 17–21) at the latest

If you want to know more, feel free to reach out to the hiring manager Juulia Loisa via email juulia.loisa@vaisala.com. Please note that applications sent via email cannot be processed due to privacy reasons.

Kindly note that we are not able to provide support in relocation or work permit-related matters.