Engineer - Installation

Role

Site supervision

• Accountable for safety, quality, productivity, and corrective actions during installation and handovers.
• Ensure teams use correct installation methods and tools; assess risks where standard methods are not feasible.
• Prepare sites, verify readiness and customer deliverables, conduct visits and audits, and resolve non-conformities.
• Verify execution plans and field costs; manage installation activities, final testing, issue closure, and handover to maintenance.
• Plan installation activities, site storage, logistics, resources, and tools; coordinate materials, goods receipt, and delivery milestones.
• Coordinate work scope, completion dates, customer milestones, and target installation hours with installation teams.
• Hold regular team huddles to prevent interruptions, improve workflow, and reduce waste.
• Achieve variation-sales and change-order targets and recover costs attributable to others.
• Manage quality claims, timesheets, documentation, progress and cost reporting, risks, and schedule changes.
• Manage waste and hazardous materials related to installation.

Customer and people management

• Act as the primary customer contact for site management and support customer satisfaction through timely communication and professional installation.
• Verify site personnel are trained, certified, competent, and capable of assigned tasks.
• Support site operatives’ safety, motivation, wellbeing, training needs, and performance development.
• Maintain proactive working relationships with subcontractor installation teams and ensure commitments are met.

Continuous improvement

• Improve standard ways of working using Lean principles and coach teams to identify waste and implement improvements.
• Share improvement opportunities, root causes, and ideas through activities such as Go & See, retrospectives, and improvement sessions.

What KONE offers

• Career progression opportunities within a global organization.
• Reward elements and learning and development programs.

About KONE

Requirements

• Ensure installers, testers, and other contractors on site are trained, certified, competent, and capable of performing their assigned installation tasks.