Job Description

Looking to develop your career in Maintenance Engineering? Join our leadership team!

Valmet is a global technology leader specializing in process technologies, automation systems, and services for the pulp, paper, energy, and a wide range of process industries. With more than 19000 professionals working across approximately 40 countries, the company combines over 225 years of industrial history with a strong focus on innovation, sustainability, and lifecycle value for customers.

Our Maintenance team is now looking for a Maintenance Supervisor to join our unit in Ovar, Portugal. In this role, you will take a leading position in our maintenance operations—guiding the team, coordinating activities, and ensuring our equipment runs safely, efficiently, and at its best. Your leadership will help us maintain high production standards, drive continuous improvement, and secure reliable performance across the unit.

Your activities

• Lead and coordinate maintenance operations, ensuring smooth execution across the facility.
• Guide and support a team of maintenance technicians, fostering strong performance and collaboration.
• Validate preventive maintenance plans and authorize corrective interventions, including improvement actions required to optimize reliability.
• Ensure all maintenance tasks are executed on time and according to safety and quality standards.
• Collaborate closely with the Production Department to analyze root causes and implement effective, long-lasting solutions.
• Drive Continuous Improvement initiatives across mechanical, pneumatic, hydraulic, and electrical production processes.
• Perform functional analyses of machines and devices during their approval and commissioning phases.
• Work in partnership with cross‑functional technical teams to ensure alignment and efficient problem-solving.

What you need to be successful in this role

• BSc/MSc in Mechanical or Electromechanical Engineering preferred (other Engineering might be considered).
• Solid leadership experience.
• Good knowledge of mechanical and electromechanical industrial maintenance.
• Good command of English and native Portuguese languages.
• Excellent interpersonal skills, such as communication and negotiation, team working and proactivity.
• Strong team and project leadership skills.
• Analytical thinking, methodical ways of working and motivation to join a fast-pace and demanding working environment.

We offer

You will be a part of a highly motivated and skillful team who will onboard and support your journey at Valmet; together you will move our customers’ performance forward and make a difference in our company, contributing to the positive development of our product and business. You can expect to learn new and exciting tasks and to work on an independent role. Your days will vary since your field of responsibilities is both wide and challenging.

In addition, we offer you a competitive compensation package, including bonus plan and meal allowance, health and life insurances. You will find our health experts team at your disposal, including labor and curative medicine, nursing, psychology and physiotherapy services.
We encourage our people’s professional and personal development with training programs, studies financing and other learning opportunities.

Additional information
We will start to process applications as soon as those come in, so apply already today – latest by May 31st.

That feeling when… everything works together is what makes working at Valmet unique!

Valmet is where the best talent from a wide variety of backgrounds comes together. With 19.000 professionals around the world, we are the leading global developer and supplier of technologies, automation and services for the pulp, paper and energy industries. Our commitment to moving our customers’ performance forward requires creativity, technological innovations, service know-how – and above all, teamwork.

Join the team!