Summer jobs at Valmet

More information about the summer 2025 application period coming soon!

Spend your summer working at Valmet

We offer approximately 500 summer trainee positions for students in Finland. Most of the summer trainee positions are available in our production sites or office sites related to different engineering, project management and R&D fields. We offer summer trainee positions also in our procurement, sales and logistics field as well as in our finance, marketing IT and HR fields.

More information about the summer 2025 application periods coming soon!

Summer job locations:


  • Espoo
  • Imatra
  • Inkeroinen
  • Juankoski
  • Jyväskylä (introduction video)
  • Jämsänkoski
  • Järvenpää (introduction video)
  • Kajaani
  • Kauttua
  • Kemi
  • Kempele
  • Kotka
  • Kouvola
  • Kuopio
  • Lappeenranta
  • Lapua
  • Oulu
  • Pietarsaari
  • Pori
  • Raisio
  • Rauma
  • Tampere
  • Ulvila
  • Valkeakoski
  • Vantaa

Why should you spend your summer with us?

You will have a chance to work for a sustainable future because we believe that our technology plays a crucial role to mitigate climate change and global warming. A summer trainee position with us will give you an outstanding opportunity to get familiar with an international technology industry and support your studies. You will gain important information for example our production or our business processess and you are able to affect to our customer's success. 

We welcome you to be part of our team substituting and helping our experts in their daily work so your job is highly appreciated. We will provide excellent onboarding path to support your learning. Our summer jobs are available for a period of 1 to 4 months. 

1. Great learning opportunity

2. You get to utilize your skills

3. You get to work on real customer projects

Summer jobs in our production and production white collars

As a summer trainee in our production, you will work for example in the manufacture of textiles and spare parts used in machining, assembly, installation or welding tasks, foundry work or paper machines. In your role, you are responsible for meeting the production quality requirements and performing your work safely.

In our production maintenance  summer jobs, you work in different kind of maintenance related tasks. 

In logistics, you send products to external warehouses, collect spare parts or receive goods. As a reception inspector, you work independently on different pieces. The task is to check valve parts coming from suppliers.

The work tasks of the paint shop include sandblasting the factory-made valves in a sandblasting machine and protecting them for the painting phase. The work includes lifting actuators and other components to be painted onto the track of the paint shop and off it after painting.

As a summer trainee of production supervisor, you are responsible for work management and production planning. We are also looking for summer employees for various production development and design tasks.

We also offer a few summer jobs where you get to work at our customer sites in Finland with our professionals.

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Summer jobs in our offices

Office positions are available, for example, in automation, mechanical and process as well as energy and environmental engineering, project management and research and product development.

In addition, summer jobs are available in our logistics, procurement, quality and HSE throughout Finland. Summer jobs are also available in technical and commercial sales support and order processing.

We also offer a variety of summer jobs in our Corporate functions. Whether you have a background in accounting or IT or are studying marketing or HR, apply for an interesting summer job with us! In addition, summer jobs are available in our strategy and business development teams and in our legal teams.

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How to apply

  1. Check out the summer jobs available. 

  2. Apply for a summer trainee position that best suits your study background by filling in the application form. We have summer trainee positions available both in out production sites as well as our offices. Please remember to attach CV to your application.

  3. After submitting the application, you will receive message from the system that your application has been received. After the applications period, we will inform about the status of your application. 

  4. We review the applications and the most suitable applicants will be invited to a video interview or a face-to-face interview. We will do interviews during March. After the interviews, the most suitable candidates will be chosen to the summer trainee positions.

  5. We will select our summer trainees by April 15th, 2024. We will notify each applicant of the outcome of the application process.

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Come to meet us in the recruitment fairs!

We are attending several recruitment fairs in Finland - come to meet us virtually or in person! 

Check out the recruitment fair calendar