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HR Manager

We at Sandvik Rock Processing are the leading supplier of equipment and services for the mining and construction industry. At our Lahti site we engineer and manufacture industry leading hydraulic hammers and other hydraulic attachments for maximum productivity.

We are now looking for an experienced HR Manager for Sandvik Lahti site. In this role, you will be a strategic and operational partner to our managers, and you will work closely with the organization and play a key role in driving change and improvement initiatives. You support managers in both daily and long-term HR matters, with a focus on executing our strategy from a people perspective. Your curiosity and HR expertise help create an attractive workplace with engaged leaders and employees.

Your role

As HR Manager, you are in a key influential and leadership role at the site. You are an active member at the Site Management Team and other key decision-making forums. You will lead and facilitate several key personnel topics and initiatives at the site. Your role is diverse with coordination needs towards site, country and international networks, covering e.g. the following areas:

Coordinate Compliance: Ensure HR activities at the site comply with legislation and collective bargaining agreements.
Union Liaison: Act as the main HR contact for local unions, facilitating and negotiating cooperative and development matters in line with business requests, local laws, and collective bargaining agreements.
Manager Support: Train, coach and develop people managers with employee-related topics, including e.g. annual HR processes, employment life-cycle matters, learning and development, and employee engagement in collaboration with the HR Finland Services team.
Occupational Health: Act as the main employer contact for occupational health care at the site. Drive health and wellbeing development activities with the external service provider.
HR Representation: Participate in and represent HR in local site management, union cooperative meetings and other relevant forums at the site.
Country HR alignment: Represent the site in country HR collaboration forums. Drive collaboration and alignment, and strive for consistency and compliance from country and legal entity perspective.

Your profile

We are looking for someone with several years of experience as an HR Generalist or HR Manager, where you’ve worked close to the business and supported both managers and operations in a broad HR role, preferably within a industrial environment. You have solid knowledge of the Finnish labor legislation and collective agreements. You have excellent influencing, negotiation and collaboration skills and you communicate comfortably in Finnish and English. We hope you enjoy leading and driving change with a positive mindset. Delivering business relevant HR is important to you, and you want to challenge yourself as well as others to build a continuously improving workplace for all.

What is in it for you?

We offer you an interesting role in an international business environment, extraordinary products, great colleagues, and opportunities for your professional development. At Sandvik, we believe that diversity of experience, perspective and background will lead to a better environment for our employees, our business and, thereby, our customers. We have an inclusive company culture where our values are Curiosity, Winning Together, Responsibility and Customer Focus. Visit our stories hub, LinkedIn or Facebook to get to know us better.

Contact information

For further information about this position please contact recruiting manager: Laura Karhela, HR Director Attachment Tools Division, tel. +358 40 729 5552. You can reach Laura on 2nd Sep 9.00 – 11.00 or 11th Sep 11.00 – 14.00.

For further information about the recruitment process, please contact: HR Services Finland, tel. +358 800 1 44444 (weekdays at 9-11 and 13-15 EET).

Want to be part of our team?

Send your application and CV no later than Sunday 14th September 2025.
When applying in our system, please make sure to also attach your cover letter when asked to upload your resume. Read about Sandvik and apply at home.sandvik/careers.

Job ID: R0082591

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