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Työnimike: Innovation Specialist

Työnkuvaus:
At Konecranes, we believe that great customer experience is built on the people behind the Konecranes name - people committed to providing our customers with lifting equipment and services that lift their businesses. Everything we do, we do with passion and drive. This is what makes Konecranes a unique place to work.

We are looking for an innovative mechanical designer to join as an Innovation Specialist to be part of the Innovation management team, whose mission is to accelerate Konecranes' growth through new business and product concepts, improvements and efficient ways of working.
 
In this position your main task is facilitate technical (mainly mechanical and electrical) idea development by organizing idea development projects and steering our idea handling process in Konecranes' internal idea management system.

Idea development projects are called as an idea sprints, where the main goal is to find out an answer for the most crucial question related to taking the idea to next level, the question can be for example "can we find a solution for this problem", "would this approach work in practice" or "what are the alternative solutions for this challenge". You will be responsible for identifying potential sprint topics, designing the assignment for sprint team and providing support for the team during the way and eventually communicating the results to business stakeholders.

Konecranes innovation strategy outlines open innovation processes, meaning that anybody everywhere in the organization has doors open to submit ideas and participate for development. Annually we receive over 500 ideas and your responsibility is to pick up the best technical ideas for further development and provide proper feedback for those that are not taken further.

As a part of small team your responsibilities are not limited to above mentioned tasks, based on your interests and capabilities you can also develop for innovation trainings, participate for business case development and decision making. On the other hand, sky is the limit for developing our existing innovation processes and practices further.

The position is located in Hyvinkää, but according to your preference, you have an option to work in our Espoo's office 2-3 days in a week.

Main responsibilities:
- Facilitating technical idea development from need to decision (go or kill or hold)
- Coordinating idea sprint projects with teams in India, China and Finland
- Drive technical idea collection and feedback loop in our idea portal
- Gathering technical challenges from internal stakeholders to our challenge portfolio
- Preparing, executing and documenting ideation and development workshops
- Coordinating university innovation projects
- Participating in other innovation management activities

Skills, Education and Experience:
- An ideal candidate has at least 2 years work experience from for example mechanical design and he/she is willing to learn more about business and front end of product development.
- Passion towards innovation and continuous learning and development
- Good collaboration and communication skills and be fluent in written and spoken English (Finnish is an asset, but not mandatory)
- Logical and analytical thinking
- Team player who has positive mindset and "continuous improvement" attitude.
- Willingness to travel approximately 20 days annually.

Knowledge on TRIZ (Theory of inventive problem solving) or other innovation method is an asset, but no worries if you do not have, we will train you.

We offer you an interesting and challenging working environment in a multinational organization. You will learn new things continuously and have great possibility to develop your professional skills in a young team.

 
Konecranes is a world-leading group of Lifting Businesses™, serving a broad range of customers. We are truly a global company with 16,000 employees at 600 locations in 50 countries. For over 80 years, we have been dedicated to improving the efficiency and performance of businesses in all types of industries. We believe that sustainable growth is a result of a strong responsible performance.

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If you are interested in this position, please submit your application and CV by October 17 2018 via our career site: https://careers.konecranes.com/Konecranes/

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Työnantajan nimi: Konecranes Abp

source: TIVA