At Metsä Board's board and pulp mills you can find a summer job where fluent Finnish language skills are not required. Metsä Board's mills are located in Joutseno, Kaskinen, Kemi, Kyröskoski (Hämeenkyrö), Tampere, Simpele and Äänekoski. 

Also, our Metsä Fibre Rauma fibre and saw mills offer white collar summer jobs in which you can work in English.

In addition, we have summer jobs in production in all our mills around Finland but most of them require Finnish language skills. Those jobs are described on our Kesätyöt web page in Finnish.

Summer jobs in production at Metsä Board’s mills include a wide range of tasks primarily in the board and pulp manufacturing process. Mainly, the work is carried out in three shifts.

Work days in production are varied, offering plenty of experience and new things to learn. After a thorough induction, you will be able to work independently as part of a supportive and friendly team.

We have jobs for a wide range of people from both vocational and higher education backgrounds, including early-stage students. Your educational background could be in chemical, energy, mechanical, process, electrical, automation or industrial engineering.

We expect you to be reliable and proactive, and to have initiative and good interpersonal and co-operational skills. We value your ability to work independently, and your willingness to learn and develop on the job. Most summer jobs in production also require a willingness to do shift work and to be 18 years or older.

Metsä Group has a responsible corporate culture that creates a safe working environment for all of us. Promoting safe working methods and practices is an important part of our professionalism, and we expect the same of all new recruits.

You can find the summer job advertisements for:

Metsä Board's production with the title "Summer Job at Metsä Board's production"

Metsä Fibre Rauma mills with the title "Summer Job at Metsä Group - Team Manager and White Collar Tasks, Metsä Fibre Rauma"

This summer job at Production planning is located in one of the Metsä Board mills (Kemi, Kyröskoski, Simpele, Tampere, Äänekoski, Joutseno, Kaskinen or Husum, Sweden) - this position needs either Finnish skills (at mills in Finland OR Swedish skills at Husum mill). 

Production Planning is part of Metsä Board's Sales and Operations Planning team. Production planners are responsible for the scheduling of board mill production lines for all Metsä Board's board mills. The production planners work at different mill sites, forming a team of 13 people. As a summer employee, you will work as part of this team at one of our board mills, each of which will have at least one team member to train you. Your main tasks will include the trimming of confirmed order stock and the preparation of detailed schedule for the board machines and/or sheet cutters, as well as other tasks within the production planning package. 

We expect you to be reliable, flexible, proactive and cooperative. We value your ability to work independently, and your willingness to learn and develop on the job. 

We hope that you have previous experience in production planning. Experience with MES system (e.g. TIPS) and SAP R/3 systems would be an advantage. Fluency in English is required. We also require Finnish language skills at the Finnish mills and Swedish language skills at the Husum mill in Sweden. 

The summer job in production planning is well suited for a student of, for example, supply chain, industrial engineering and management at university or college level. 

Our summer jobs in Metsä Fibre’s Supply Chain are located in Joutseno and in Rauma.

The scope of your work at Metsä Group will be varied. The tasks range from routine and assisting assignments to larger projects with more responsibility and development work carried out independently, depending on your own experience and willingness to develop your competencies.

We expect you to be reliable, flexible, proactive and a good team player. We value your ability to work independently and your willingness to learn and develop on the job.

These jobs require good ICT skills, ability to cope with pressure, and fluency in English. The jobs in Rauma (Supply Planning and Supply Chain Logistics Coordinator) require also Finnish language skill. Other languages are considered as an advantage. We value an upbeat approach to work, customer service orientation and good interpersonal skills. 

The Supply Chain summer jobs are well suited to polytechnic or university students in economics, industrial engineering and management, logistics or a similar field.

Customer Service Coordinator

The Supply Chain Customer Service Coordinator in Joutseno is responsible for processing domestic and export customer orders in the SAP system up to invoicing. In addition, the tasks include export documentation related to orders and daily communication and liaison with internal and external customers.

Supply planning

The Supply Planning summer job in Rauma involves planning and organising production, inventory management and deliveries. The work also includes documentation and reporting and communication with internal and external customers.

Logistics Coordinator

The Supply Chain Logistics Coordinator summer job in Rauma includes planning and coordinating land transportation for designated pulp mills and sawmills. You will handle purchase invoices, transportation orders, and documents. You will closely collaborate with the sawmill and pulp delivery planning teams, as well as other internal and external stakeholders.  

Metsä Board’s summer job in Demand and Supply Planning is located either at one of our board mills (Kemi, Kyröskoski, Simpele, Tampere, Äänekoski or Husum, Sweden, or at our headquarters in Espoo.

Demand and Supply Planning is part of Metsä Board's Sales and Operations Planning team. Demand and Supply Planner is responsible for mills’ short term plan and daily availability management. The Demand and Supply Planners work at different Metsä Board sites, forming a team of 9 people. 

As a summer employee, you will work as part of this team at one of our sites. Your main tasks will include creating and maintaining rough production plan for board machines, identifying and handling exceptions in a short-term horizon, making sure production blocks are sent to production planning according to the schedule, as well as other tasks within the demand and supply planning package.

We expect you to be reliable, flexible, proactive and cooperative. We value your ability to work independently, and your willingness to learn and develop on the job. To succeed some understanding of Sales & Operations Planning, Supply Chain Management and/or Sales processes is needed. 

We hope you have previous experience in demand and supply planning or closely related tasks. You need competence in using MS Office tools and experience with SAP APO would be an advantage. Good verbal and written communication skills in English is required. Finnish and Swedish skills are seen as a benefit. 

The summer job in Demand and Supply Planning is suited for a student of logistics, supply chain or business at university or college level.   

There are summer jobs for Sourcing and Logistics trainees in two teams in Espoo: in logistics development team and maritime logistics service center (no need to be a Finnish speaker for these roles).  

The scope of your work at Metsä Group will be varied and offer a wide range of learning opportunities. The tasks range from routine and assisting assignments to larger projects with more responsibility and development work carried out independently, depending on your own experience and willingness to develop your competencies. 

Logistics development team 

As a summer trainee in the Sourcing and Logistics Development team, you will be involved in different activities supporting procurement professionals and process owners. This includes end-user support in contract management and supplier base management, for example. You will also analyse procurement master data and contribute to its quality assurance and improvement. In addition, you have a possibility to contribute to the ongoing ERP project regarding the purchasing process and related support, instructions and trainings for end-users. 

We hope that you already have a basic understanding of procurement processes and tools. A suitable educational background for the position is a few years of university education in a commercial or technical field, for example. Fluency in English is required and knowledge of SAP, CRM and PowerBI are considered an advantage. 

Maritime logistics service center 

As s summer trainee in Metsä Group’s maritime logistics service center, you will perform short-term logistics planning (sales order and capacity balancing). The service center provides maritime logistics and ports coordination related services to our business areas and cooperates with stakeholders. Daily operations like processing maritime transport requests, making bookings and delivery follow-ups are part of your tasks. In addition, you perform logistics invoice checks, manage logistics supplier quality deviations and maintain logistics master data in various systems. You are in the key role to solve daily issues and to ensure a high service level and quality of our deliveries.

You participate actively in the cooperation with port operators and shipping lines and contribute also to continuous improvement of the maritime logistics processes, tools and ways of working. 

We expect you to have relevant education in logistics, supply chain, business or technology. Previous experience in logistics or supply chain in manufacturing or shipping environment is an advantage. We value your customer service and teamwork attitude as well as process orientation. You can work under pressure and balance between multiple priorities. You have good written and spoken English and Finnish skills. Knowledge of any other Metsä Group local languages (e.g., Swedish, German) is an asset. Your experience in ERP and transportation management systems is regarded as an advantage. 

Our summer job in Technical Customer service is located Metsä Board's Customer Feedback Centre in Äänekoski.   

Our operations consist of product quality related feedback handling from EMEA market area, 1^st leg transport damage handling and Sample Service. In feedback handling your main stakeholders are customers, technical service at board mills in Finland and Sweden, Technical Service at EMEA market area, Metsä Board Customer Service and your own team. 

In 1^st leg transport damage handling you will work in close co-operation with external transportation companies and Supply Chain. In Sample Service, you will manage our A4 unprinted sample storage and provide sample deliveries by request mostly to customers globally.   

Your main task this summer will be product feedback handling, but it is possible for your to expand your competence in the other tasks within our team as well.  

We expect you to be reliable, flexible, proactive and cooperative. We value your ability to work independently, and your willingness to learn and develop on the job. Knowledge of MS Office programs is essential. SAP knowledge is an advantage. The position requires good English skills. Other language skills are considered as an asset.  

The role suits best to a student with paperboard production or logistics related studies at a university or applied sciences level, but all applications will be considered. 

In R&D Metsä Group offers summer jobs in 3D demo plant in Äänekoski and in Metsä Fibre’s Business Development located in Rauma.

3D demo plant trainees & assistant process specialist

We are looking for summer trainees with laboratory and analytical skills to join our research and development summer trainee program ‘Discover Metsä with R&D’. Within the program, you will get to work in close co-operation with our R&D personnel and you will be supported by our process specialists – and of course, you will get to network with the other summer trainees in the program.   

This summer you will work hands-on with our innovative technology. Your focus will be on the development of the product properties to maximize the end-use possibilities of 3D fibre product Muoto, but there might be some additional assignments as well.  

The work of assistant process specialist consists of pulp preparations for pilot machine trials, quality analyses of the pulps and 3D-products, assistance work on pilot machine trials, support research work with laboratory size 3D machine and laboratory coating device.

We expect you to be reliable, flexible, proactive, and a good team player. We value your ability to work independently and your willingness to learn and develop on the job. 

To succeed in the work, we expect from you, studies in some of the following areas: Chemical or Process Engineering, Materials Engineering, Fibre/Paper Technology, or similar. You need competence in using MS Office tools and we appreciate experience in process industry in production area, in laboratory work and development projects in your studies or previous work assignments. 

Metsä Fibre’s business development

This summer job is related to development of new sustainable process concepts. The work includes e.g. sampling from pulp mill processes, carrying out experimental work in laboratory, and reporting. The work involves close collaboration with mill organisation.   

We expect you to be reliable, flexible, proactive and a good team player. We value your meticulous working practices, ability to work independently and your willingness to learn and develop on the job.  

The job requires experience of chemical analytical methods and laboratory work, knowledge and ability to use office software, and good reporting and communication skills. Experience on industrial working environment is an advantage.  

The summer job is well suited to master level university students in chemical engineering, analytical chemistry, process technology, material technology and environmental technology. The position also suits to students finalizing or who have recently finalized their master thesis.  

Our summer job in Product Management and Technical Marketing at Metsä Board in located either in Espoo or Tampere or in other mill location.  

The summer job is related to product portfolio management. In the job, you get to participate in technical projects and make studies on, for example, the usability and processability of products for different packaging solutions. You will be able to carry out independent research and draw conclusions using data sources. In the technical marketing team, we also carry out competitor monitoring and projects on carton usability, for example in digital printing. As a summer intern, you will have the opportunity to participate in these projects as well. 

We expect you to be reliable, flexible, self-motivated and enthusiastic, with good interpersonal skills, good communication skills and a good attitude to work. We value your ability to work independently and your willingness to learn and develop on the job. Good IT skills and English language are essential. Finnish language skills are an asset (but not a must), other language skills would be an advantage. The role will possibly require travelling in Finland.  

This summer job is best suited for an advanced level university student (more than 3 years of studies) – or a student in the thesis phase. We value technical knowledge and hope that you already have some knowledge or experience of paper or board making or converting. 

The summer job in the Energy team is related to the energy production planning and reporting systems. The work explores the possibilities for energy production planning and reporting including the practical procedures and activities required for harmonization. The work is part of on-going development project. 

We are looking for a second or third-year engineering student with knowledge of the energy production, cloud computing and datalakes. Successful performance of tasks requires self-initiative, good co-operation skills and knowledge of energy technology. Experience in the use of cloud systems and excellent Excel skills will be an advantage in the selection process. Good command of English is essential. The task requires traveling to our factories in Finland. 

The summer job in marketing communications is available in Espoo, at Metsä Wood. 

Metsä Wood's marketing communications intern works in Espoo, Finland, within international marketing, internal and external communications. Main responsibilities include multi-channel marketing content creation and publishing: social media and web pages, newsletter, customer communication and internal communication. Other tasks include updating presentation materials, managing translations and image bank.

You can apply to work as an intern with a flexible starting date (the start date can be already in February).

We expect you to be fluent in English. Other languages are considered as an asset. You are an active and cooperative team player who has attention to detail and the ability to follow deadlines. We value your ability to work independently and your willingness to learn and develop on the job.

Previous experience in updating websites, image editing, marketing and content producing for digital channels is preferred, but not essential.

The preferred candidate is a business or marketing student in UNI or UAS.

You can find the summer job advertisement for Marketing Communications with the title "Summer job at Metsä Group – Marketing Communications".

We are looking for summer trainee with interest to learn and develop Metsä’s internal users’ user experience with different IT systems and services. For us at Metsä, User Experience is a way to support reaching our strategic goals in a human centric way. By applying user-centric thinking Metsä is adding new perspective on its operations. 

You will get to work in close co-operation with our IT and business personnel and you will be supported by our User Experience professionals – and of course you have a chance to network with the other summer trainees at Metsä.   

Your duties involve measuring, reporting and analysing user experience levels of several ICT provided services and participating in UX projects (service design, usability testing etc.) as a member of Metsä’s UX team. 

To succeed in the work, we expect studies in some of the following areas: Business Administration, User experience, Customer experience, Service design or similar. You will need competence in using MS Office tools and we appreciate involvement in user experience in your studies or previous work assignments. 

We are looking for summer trainees with data and analytics skills to join our data and analytics summer trainee program ‘Discover Metsä with data’. Within the program, you will get to work in close co-operation with our business personnel and you will be supported by our data and analytics professionals in IT – and of course you will get to network with the other summer trainees in the program.   

Data is the key driver in many of our business development initiatives and there are various opportunities to discover and explore the data and find new ways of creating value out of it. We have gathered some actual and topical cases around data and analytics from our five business areas and we will select the right one for you based on your background and interests. Your focus for the summer will be around the selected data management or business use case, but there might be some additional assignments as well.  

For summer 2024, we are looking for trainees to join multiple different teams as follows. 

• Three trainees to join Master Data Management team
• Three trainees to join Analytics and Reporting team
  • Two to work with Business Intelligence and Analytics development
  • One to work with Artificial Intelligence development
• Two trainees to join Robotic Process Automation team
  • One to work as Robotic Process Automation Business Analyst and/or robot development
  • One to work with Artificial Intelligence development

State clearly at the beginning of your application which is your area of interest to ensure that your application will be seen by the correct team leaders here at Metsä. In addition, please describe your possible prior expertise or future ambitions in the field you are applying for. 

To succeed in the work, we expect from you, studies in some of the following areas: Information Technology, Data Science, Industrial Engineering and Management, Business Administration, or similar. You need competence in using MS Office tools and we appreciate experience in data and analytics in your studies or previous work assignments.