Electronics Designer Vacancy at Planmeca, Helsinki

Planmeca is seeking an Electronics Designer for its dental-unit product development work in Herttoniemi, Helsinki, Uusimaa. The position is suited to an electronics professional who brings substantial experience in schematic and layout design, understands testing and technical assessment, and can approach product development in a strongly regulated industry with an independent, solution-focused mindset. Fluent Finnish and English are required for the role. The work covers electronics design, implementation and testing within the stated product-development setting.

Based within Electronics Design, the Electronics Designer will contribute to product electronics alongside an experienced specialist team. The work combines design, implementation and testing with a system-level view of equipment that integrates electronics, mechanics and software. This vacancy is relevant to applicants with an appropriate engineering education, at least five years of electronics-design experience, and the ability to collaborate across technical and operational functions. It therefore suits candidates able to connect detailed circuit work to the wider development task and to work across these identified functions.

Opportunity Details

Overview of the Vacancy

Location, Sector, and Role Context

The Electronics Designer position supports dental-unit product development at Planmeca in Helsinki. Its purpose is to help create the electronics used in Planmeca products, from design activity through implementation and testing. The product environment includes a company-designed embedded control system that brings together electronics, mechanics and software. Within this setting, the post contributes to the technical realisation of dental devices while keeping attention on dependable electronics, effective performance and premium-level cost efficiency. An experienced expert team provides the immediate product-development context for the work. The listed responsibilities give the post a practical place in this shared product-development process, with electronic solutions handled from design through testing.

Day-to-day activity in this role spans technical design tasks and project-based cooperation. The Electronics Designer works closely with mechanical and software design colleagues, while also engaging with production, purchasing and other stakeholders. A background in electronics design that includes both schematics and layout is therefore central, as is an understanding of how a complete system fits together. The vacancy also calls for product-development experience in a strongly regulated industry, sound testing and technical-assessment knowledge, and an independent way of working that focuses on resolving technical matters constructively. Project-working capability is specifically expected when these connections need to be managed.

About the Employer: Planmeca (Planmeca Oy, Planmeca Group)

Organization and Relevant Services

Verified Employer Overview

Planmeca Oy is the parent company of Planmeca Group, which operates in healthcare technology. Established in 1971, Planmeca specialises in the design and manufacture of high-technology dental equipment. The company’s headquarters are in Helsinki, Finland, providing the wider Helsinki setting for this Electronics Designer vacancy. The employer’s stated activity places the role in an organisation concerned with dental equipment and related healthcare-technology products, while the advertised position itself is assigned to dental-unit product development and Electronics Design. The company headquarters establish Helsinki as the recorded company base, while this vacancy gives Herttoniemi as the role location.

Planmeca’s product range includes digital dental units, CAD/CAM solutions, 2D and 3D imaging devices, and comprehensive software solutions. Its dental portfolio is also described as including high-quality imaging equipment, dental units, CAD/CAM solutions and software. For an Electronics Designer, this product context relates directly to the technical implementation of dental devices and to the requirement to understand system-level entities. The vacancy identifies electronics, mechanics and software as integrated elements of the company-designed embedded control system used by the product-development environment. The advertised role contributes at the development stage, where the electronic element is considered alongside the other two disciplines.

Professional Setting and Role Context

Work Environment, Operations, and Facilities

Across Planmeca Group, companies manufacture and supply dental-care equipment and instruments, dental and medical imaging devices, software, and mammography systems. The group also includes companies that provide dental supplies, services and education. This broader set of activities is part of the healthcare-technology context named for the employer. Within the advertised role, cooperation with production, purchasing and other stakeholders connects the electronics-design work to functions that are specifically identified in the vacancy, alongside close work with mechanical and software design colleagues. That group context is distinct from the vacancy’s immediate dental-unit development scope, while explaining the wider product and service activities recorded for Planmeca Group.

Planmeca states that its products are exported to more than 120 countries. At the Helsinki headquarters, Planmeca Onyx intraoral scanners are manufactured. The Electronics Designer role is listed for Herttoniemi in Helsinki and is assigned to dental-unit product development. Its team setting is an experienced specialist group, and its technical setting requires collaboration across electronics, mechanics and software. Production and purchasing are also named as stakeholder functions for the role’s project work. The stated duties make that collaboration a practical part of the electronics-design assignment within the product-development setting.

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Open Positions

1. Electronics Designer

Official title: Elektroniikkasuunnittelija — Electronics Designer

Location: Herttoniemi, Helsinki, Uusimaa, Finland | Employment information: On-site at Herttoniemi with flexible working hours; contract type not disclosed

In this position, electronics design is connected directly to the development of Planmeca dental products. The Electronics Designer is expected to take part in the work of an experienced team and to move electronic solutions through design, implementation and testing. The role calls for careful consideration of reliability, performance and premium-level cost efficiency, while technical decisions are made in a system that combines electronics with mechanical and software elements. Collaboration is integral because the vacancy names design colleagues, production, purchasing and other stakeholders as part of the working context. Project-working skills are important when the role brings these contributing functions together around the product electronics.

Responsibilities

• Participate in electronics-design work as a member of an experienced specialist team, contributing to shared product-development tasks.
• Create the electronics design for Planmeca products within the stated dental-unit product-development work.
• Translate electronics designs into implemented product solutions for the relevant Planmeca equipment.
• Test the electronics developed for the relevant products as part of the role’s design and implementation activity.
• Help maintain the reliability of product electronics through the assigned design work.
• Support the intended performance and premium-level cost efficiency of product electronics during design decisions.
• Contribute to the technical implementation of Planmeca dental devices in the product-development setting.
• Work closely with colleagues responsible for mechanical and software design on integrated product solutions.
• Cooperate with production and purchasing as part of project work involving product electronics.
• Use strong project-working capability when coordinating with the other stakeholders identified for the role.

Qualifications

• Hold relevant electronics education, such as a Master of Science in electrical or electronics engineering or an engineering degree.
• Bring at least five years of solid electronics-design experience covering schematic and layout design.
• Have product-development experience gained in a strongly regulated industry.
• Understand testing and technical assessment in an electronics product-development setting.
• Work independently and approach technical work in a solution-oriented way.
• Be able to understand the overall picture and system-level entities across the product environment.
• Use Finnish and English fluently in the role’s working context.
• Preferred: Bring experience with embedded systems relevant to integrated product electronics.
• Preferred: Know production transfer, including design for manufacturing, design for test and testing.

Skills and Competencies

• Use electronics schematic-design expertise when developing Planmeca product electronics for dental-unit development.
• Apply PCB layout-design experience within the electronics-design work for the stated products.
• Relate embedded-systems experience to the product environment’s integrated control system.
• Apply testing and technical-assessment knowledge when assessing implemented electronics for product use.
• Use regulated-industry product-development experience in the stated dental-device development context.
• Draw on DFM, DFT and production-transfer knowledge where relevant to product-electronics work.
• Collaborate across mechanical design, software design, production and purchasing in project work.
• Maintain a system-level perspective across electronics, mechanics and software when developing product solutions.

Benefits and Employment Information

• The vacancy lists an Epassi benefit for the advertised position.
• A company bicycle benefit is advertised for this Electronics Designer role.
• The employer lists comprehensive occupational healthcare among the official benefits.
• Extensive medical-expense insurance is included among the benefits advertised for the position.
• This Electronics Designer role is on-site at Herttoniemi, Helsinki, Uusimaa with flexible working hours; contract type is not disclosed, and the vacancy does not publish a salary.

Application Guidance

Prepare a Focused Application

CV, Evidence, Documents, and Interview Preparation

As general preparation guidance, an applicant for this type of electronics-design role can prepare concise examples that show involvement in schematic design, PCB layout and testing activity. Examples can explain the technical issue, the individual contribution and how reliability, performance or cost efficiency was considered. It can also be useful to organise evidence of relevant engineering education and to be ready to discuss experience of product development in a strongly regulated industry. A concise example can distinguish the design decision from the testing undertaken afterwards. This is general preparation advice, not an additional employer requirement.

For an interview, candidates can prepare to describe how they have worked independently while retaining a view of the complete system. Discussion examples may cover cooperation with mechanical and software designers, or interaction with production and purchasing during project work. Those with embedded-systems exposure or knowledge of production transfer can explain that experience, including design for manufacturing, design for test and testing where applicable. Applicants can also consider how to communicate their Finnish and English capability clearly. Preparing examples in a structured sequence can make the relationship between electronics, mechanics and software easier to explain. These suggestions are general professional preparation guidance rather than conditions set beyond the vacancy.

• Prepare a CV that makes electronics schematic and PCB layout work on relevant products easy to identify.
• Select examples that show design, implementation and testing of product electronics from a defined technical task.
• Describe regulated-industry product-development work without presenting general preparation material as an employer requirement.
• Prepare a clear account of collaboration with mechanical, software, production or purchasing colleagues during project work.
• Be ready to explain a system-level technical decision involving reliability, performance or cost efficiency in electronics.
• State any embedded-systems or production-transfer experience accurately as relevant additional background for this role.

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How to Apply

Submit Your Application Through the Verified Route

Apply Through the Official Employer Portal

For this Electronics Designer vacancy, prepare an English-language CV and a stated salary expectation for the employer’s official application portal. Select the application button below these instructions, then use the short 10-second countdown before the final link becomes available. The route is supplied by Planmeca and relates to the role in Herttoniemi, Helsinki. Submit the materials through that portal for this specific electronics-design position.