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Maintenance Engineer at Metsä Tissue in Mariestad

Metsä Group is a successful corporation in the forestry industry with roots in the Finnish forests – our parent company is a cooperative of over 90,000 forest owners. Metsä Group's business area for tissue and food and baking paper, Metsä Tissue, manufactures hygiene products for household and professional use, as well as food and baking paper. Our high-quality locally produced brands – Lambi, Serla, Mola, Tento, Katrin, and SAGA – create a cleaner everyday life.

We welcome people from diverse backgrounds and at different life stages. Metsä has space and opportunities for many different talents regardless of age, gender, ethnic background, sexual orientation, disabilities, or other characteristics – Metsä is for everyone. Read more: metsagroup.com/metsaforall.

Maintenance Engineer at Metsä Tissue in Mariestad

Do you want to work in a high-tech and dynamic industrial environment where operational reliability, sustainability, and technical development are at the center? We are now looking for a Maintenance Engineer who wants to help develop our maintenance work and contribute to stable and efficient production.

As a Maintenance Engineer, you will be responsible for developing, optimizing, and quality assuring the mechanical maintenance in the facility. You will work closely with production, maintenance personnel, and planners to ensure high availability and long-term operational reliability. The role combines technical analysis, improvement work, and operational support in an environment where no day is the same.

The position is a permanent employment and you will report to the Maintenance Manager, Mariestad.

Your main responsibilities

• Drive and develop preventive and condition-based maintenance
• Follow up and quality assure maintenance plans and secure spare parts holding
• Perform root cause analyses (RCA) and initiate improvement actions
• Support operations in complex mechanical issues
• Participate in planning and execution of major maintenance stops
• Responsible for technical documentation and updating of maintenance systems
• Participate in projects and technical investigations
• Ensure that working methods and equipment comply with current safety requirements
• You will communicate internally and externally in an international environment, which requires that you have good knowledge of Swedish and English, both spoken and written.

Who are you?

You are a technically curious and analytical person who thrives in an environment where problem-solving, collaboration, and structure are central. You have an easy time communicating with different professional groups and are driven by improving processes and creating long-term solutions.

We believe that you have:

• Engineering education in mechanics or equivalent experience or other relevant education
• Experience in maintenance work, preferably within the process or paper industry
• Good understanding of mechanical systems and industrial processes
• Experience with maintenance systems (e.g., SAP PM, Maximo, or similar)
• Ability to work structured, independently, and in teams

We offer

The role offers a key position in a stable and future-oriented industry, where you will have great opportunities to influence and develop maintenance work in the long term. You will become part of a workplace with a strong safety focus and engaged colleagues, while also having good development opportunities within technology, improvement work, and competence development.

Want to know more? Contact us!

For more information about the position, contact Maintenance Manager, Jonas Mörnsjö at [email protected] or +46 761288496

How to apply for the position

We apply anonymous recruitment. Read more about how it works and why we use it: www.metsagroup.com/anonymousrecruitment

Click the link below to apply. Fill in your work history and educational information if you have not yet filled in your details in the career section of your Workday profile. Add job descriptions for the positions you have held, and ensure that your current position and responsibilities are included. Then return to the application page.

Please note that with anonymous recruitment, attachments will not be visible until the interview phase. Therefore, it is important to fill in your career profile in Workday.

The application is open until 2026.01.31. Submit your application as soon as possible, as we will start processing applications during the application period.

We look forward to hearing from you – warmly welcome with your application!