Job Description

Our world depends on rocks, minerals, metals and other raw materials – the building blocks of modern society. As an industry leader, Metso helps transform these essential materials to enable sustainable modern life.

Our solutions and services support everything from renewable energy and electrification to the infrastructure and digital economy shaping our future. Together, we help our customers meet growing demand while driving the industry toward a more sustainable use of the earth’s natural resources.

Join nearly 18,000 Metsonites worldwide, each bringing unique expertise and experience to positive change. At Metso, you’re supported by a growth culture built on safety, wellbeing, inclusion and collaboration.

This is your opportunity to make an impact and rise above the possible.

Job posting end date: 10/01/2026

• Purpose of Role
• To ensure that all repair jobs executed at vendor locations comply with approved repair procedures, engineering specifications, quality standards, and customer requirements through continuous inspection, process control, and timely intervention.
• Key Responsibilities
• 1. Vendor Inspection
• 2. Repair Assessment & Scope Validation
• 3. Welding & Rebuild Inspection
• 4. Dimensional & NDT Inspection
• 5. Quality Documentation
• 6. Final Inspection & Dispatch Clearance
• 7. Vendor Quality Management
• 8. Customer Complaint & Root Cause Analysis
• Key Performance Indicators (KPIs)
• Educational Qualification
• Experience
• Technical Skills
• Special Requirement for ARF
• This version is more aligned with ARF's outsourced repair model, where the engineer acts as a vendor quality gatekeeper, ensuring quality, reducing rework, and accelerating repair turnaround time.
• Conduct regular visits to vendor facilities to monitor repair activities.
• Verify adherence to approved repair scope, drawings, specifications, and repair procedures.
• Carry out stage-wise inspections and release critical operations.
• Ensure repair quality is maintained throughout the repair cycle.
• Identify deviations and recommend corrective actions on priority.
• Participate in strip-down and damage assessment activities.
• Verify inspection findings before repair commencement.
• Review vendor repair methodology and technical feasibility.
• Validate repair scope against customer requirements and ARF standards.
• Monitor welding, rebuilding, cladding, metal spray, and fabrication activities.
• Ensure compliance with approved WPS/PQR requirements.
• Verify welder qualifications and process adherence.
• Review preheat, interpass temperature, consumable control, and heat treatment records.
• Conduct dimensional inspections using precision measuring instruments.
• Review critical fits, tolerances, alignments, and assembly dimensions.
• Coordinate and witness NDT activities:
• Prepare and maintain:
• Conduct final quality inspection before dispatch from vendor premises.
• Verify completion of repair scope and closure of all punch points.
• Ensure all inspection documents and test reports are available before dispatch.
• Recommend dispatch clearance only after successful quality verification.
• Evaluate vendor quality performance on:
• Conduct periodic vendor audits and capability assessments.
• Drive vendor development initiatives to improve repair quality and turnaround time.
• Investigate repair failures and warranty claims.
• Conduct Root Cause Analysis (RCA).
• Implement Corrective and Preventive Actions (CAPA).
• Support continuous improvement projects to reduce field failures.
• First Time Right (FTR)
• Vendor rejection rate
• Warranty claim reduction
• Customer complaint reduction
• Inspection closure within target timeline
• Stage inspection compliance
• Documentation compliance
• Rework percentage
• Repair turnaround time support
• Diploma in Mechanical Engineering
• 5-8 years in QA/QC, heavy engineering, mining equipment, crusher components, slurry pumps, gearboxes, hydraulic cylinders, or repair facilities.
• Hands-on experience in vendor development and vendor quality assurance.
• Engineering Drawing Reading
• GD&T
• Welding Inspection
• NDT Techniques
• Dimensional Metrology
• Root Cause Analysis (5 Why, Fishbone, FMEA)
• Repair Methodology Review
• ISO 9001 Quality Systems
• MS Excel, SAP, Power BI
• Willingness to travel extensively to vendor locations.
• Ability to take real-time quality decisions in breakdown repair cases where repair turnaround time is critical.
• Strong coordination skills with vendors, sourcing, engineering, and ARF operations teams to ensure zero quality escape and minimum repair lead time.

Hiring Manager: Pramod Kumar Gola

Metso is committed to pay equity and transparent reward practices globally. Compensation information is shared in line with local legislation and applicable recruitment practices.

How to join - Working at Metso - About Metso - Diversity and Inclusion - Meet our people

Metso is an equal opportunity employer committed to fostering an inclusive and diverse workforce culture. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, religion, color, nationality, gender, gender identity, sexual orientation, age, status as a protected veteran or status as a qualified individual with a disability.

Metso is a frontrunner in sustainable technologies, end-to-end solutions and services for the aggregates, minerals processing and metals refining industries globally. We improve our customers’ energy and water efficiency, increase their productivity, and reduce environmental risks with our product and service expertise. We are the partner for positive change.

Metso is headquartered in Espoo, Finland. At the end of 2025 Metso had close to 18,000 employees in around 50 countries, and sales in 2025 were about EUR 5.3 billion. Metso is listed on the Nasdaq Helsinki.

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