Sales Engineer, Waste Disposal Services

We at Fortum have 40+ years’ track record of safe nuclear operations and we are forerunners in nuclear expert services and solutions. We actively manage and develop our co-owned nuclear assets in the Nordics and through our co-owned fleet, we are the third biggest nuclear operator in Europe. Our Nuclear Services offers services to the nuclear industry globally from new builds to decommissioning and final disposal of nuclear waste.

About the role

We are looking for sales engineer to our nuclear decommissioning and radioactive waste business line team.

As a Sales engineer for waste disposal services you will have responsibility on marketing and sales of our radioactive and nuclear waste disposal service offering. The sales engineer’s work duties will include waste disposal service portfolio management from marketing and sales to coordination and steering of projects performance in our waste disposal service portfolio.

As an important part of the role, you will also have a responsibility on key customer management towards our main waste disposal clients, Fortum’s co-owned Nordic nuclear waste management organizations. Key customer management duties will include customer relationship management, sales lead and opportunity development (e.g. customer contacting), tender preparations e.g. in a role of bid manager, contract negotiation activities and customer portfolio management (ensuring up-to-date project reporting, invoicing and forecasting).

Additionally, being a member of our nuclear Decommissioning & Waste service team, you will support other team members in B2B sales and marketing activities in nuclear decommissioning and waste management sector, by e.g. contributing to bid preparation and contract negotiation activities.

Why Fortum?

This is the start of your meaningful career journey at Fortum. We actively encourage job rotation and development activities across the company with open leadership as our guiding principle.

We offer you a position with a clear purpose to solve our customers problems and needs by providing safe, environmental friendly, sustainable and high quality services for radioactive waste disposal. The customer field is consisted of our radioactive waste disposal clients, Nordic nuclear waste management organizations and international nuclear operators and nuclear waste management organizations.

You will join to our great highly motivated and skillful team, full of good collaboration spirit and eager to seek growth in Fortum’s nuclear decommissioning and radioactive waste management service business by responding to the challenges and expectations of the global market.

For you, working at Fortum means exciting opportunities to develop your expertise and create a unique career path. We will support you on this journey. We believe diversity and inclusion inspire all of us to innovate and grow together. Therefore, we are committed to building teams where everyone feels included and is treated equally.

What we are looking for

• We expect you to be motivated, cooperative and sales-minded person with good understanding on nuclear industry, B2B service business and sales and project implementation. You are capable of strategic thinking and are able to develop our business holistically in long-term perspective taking into account demands of internal and external stakeholders.
• Understanding of Nordic nuclear radioactive waste management sector and final disposal of radioactive wastes is a counted as clear advantage. Since your role includes sales and customer relationship activities in nuclear waste management and decommissioning field, experience or training in that sector is also appreciated.
• The successful management of the role will also demand excellent communication and networking skills in international business environment. The customer centric view and willingness to travel and work in international community are essential characteristics to success in this role.
• You should have working experience at least 3-5 years on energy industry and/or B2B sales. Experience and knowhow on nuclear industry is counted as a clear advantage.
• You have suitable bachelor or university level degree on technology or economics and are fluent in English. Additionally, as our key customers in nuclear waste disposal services are Fortum’s co-owned nuclear waste management organizations in Nordics role necessitates a good command of Finnish language, and Swedish language skills are highly preferred.

Interested? 

Please send your application and CV via our online recruitment system by Wednesday 22nd of February, 2023 at the latest.

Please apply as soon as possible, as we start contacting suitable candidates right away and the position will be filled as soon as the right candidate is found.

For further information of the position please contact Antti Ketolainen, Senior Manager, Decommissioning and Waste, Nuclear Services via email: [email protected] or mobile phone: +358 40 7518956 (time slots for possible phone contacts: 3.2.2023 13:00-16:00 (EET) and 6.2.2023 13:00-14:00 (EET))

To be selected for the position, the applicant must go through background clearance and a health examination including drug testing.

Fortum is an energy company driving the change for a cleaner world. Our role is to ensure the security of supply and a fast and reliable transition to a carbon-neutral economy by providing customers and societies with clean energy and sustainable solutions. Fortum’s core operations are located in the Nordics and consist of CO2-free power generation, electricity sales, district heating as well as recycling and waste solutions. Fortum's share is listed on Nasdaq Helsinki. www.fortum.com