HVAC Designer Job in Helsinki | Granlund

Granlund is recruiting an HVAC Designer, Energy-Efficiency Projects for its Sustainability energy experts team in Malmi, Helsinki, Uusimaa, Finland. The position centres on implementation design for energy-efficiency work in commercial and industrial properties. It is suited to a designer with relevant engineering education, prior design experience and the confidence to take responsibility for assigned design work while engaging with building-services technology, energy efficiency and practical energy solutions across different property types.

The role offers involvement across energy projects, from their early stages to commissioning, while combining HVAC design tasks with site visits. Granlund is seeking a professional who can translate customer objectives into workable technical approaches, use AutoCAD at a fundamental level and communicate clearly in Finnish. Curiosity about energy efficiency across different property types, readiness to adopt new software and a willingness to develop professional expertise are central to the stated background.

Opportunity Details

Overview of the Vacancy

Location, Sector, and Role Context

Within Granlund’s Sustainability energy experts team, the HVAC Designer supports the delivery of energy-efficiency projects through implementation design. Daily work brings together design assignments, customer-focused technical problem solving and visits to project sites. The scope follows energy projects from their initial stages through commissioning, giving the designer visibility of how objectives are converted into workable solutions. The vacancy is based in Malmi, Helsinki, within Uusimaa, and focuses on commercial and industrial property construction. Sustainable and energy-efficient solutions provide the stated context for the work, alongside practical attention to HVAC design requirements, customer objectives and the implementation methods used to address them.

A suitable background combines an applicable HVAC engineering degree or a Master of Science in engineering with earlier design work. The post calls for independent ownership of design assignments, interest in building-services technology and energy efficiency, and the capacity to communicate with both customers and colleagues. Fluent Finnish, including concise professional expert writing, is required. The stated profile also includes willingness and ability to learn new software, alongside AutoCAD fundamentals. As knowledge develops, the position can include project planning and preliminary studies. The team develops its services, responds to customer energy challenges and advances renewable-energy and carbon-neutral solutions.

About the Employer: Granlund (Granlund Oy)

Organization and Relevant Services

Verified Employer Overview

Granlund is a construction and real-estate sector expert group established in 1960. Its stated focus includes productivity, digitalisation, new energy solutions, sustainability and well-being in the built environment. The group operates across MEP design, architectural design, structural design, construction management and supervision, consulting, and software. This combination provides the business context for an HVAC Designer whose work sits within the Sustainability energy experts team and addresses energy-efficiency projects for property construction. Granlund’s activities therefore include both consulting and design disciplines, while the advertised role remains specifically concerned with energy-efficiency project implementation.

The group’s MEP design activity covers heating, water and drainage, ventilation, cooling, automation and sprinkler design. Granlund states that HVAC design has been central to its operations for more than 65 years. Alongside HVAC design, its stated energy-related services include energy-efficiency development, energy-recycling-system design, technical studies and condition investigations. For the advertised position, these service areas form a relevant professional setting for implementation design, practical energy solutions and interaction with customer objectives during project delivery. In this vacancy, the stated role links HVAC design with customer objectives, site visits and commissioning.

Professional Setting and Role Context

Work Environment, Operations, and Facilities

Granlund’s head office is in Helsinki, Finland, and its Finnish head-office address is in the Malmi area. The advertised role is located in Malmi, Helsinki, Uusimaa, making it the stated office location under the flexible work arrangement. Granlund also has offices in Finland, Sweden, the United Kingdom and the Netherlands. The vacancy identifies a flexible arrangement between remote work and the Helsinki head office, while project work itself includes site visits and follows energy projects through commissioning. Site visits form part of the day-to-day responsibilities stated for this project-focused design role.

Granlund reports more than 1,800 experts and EUR 180.7 million in net sales. It allocates approximately 6% of consolidated net sales to innovation activity. The group says it achieved carbon neutrality and aims to maximise its carbon handprint. Those stated priorities align with the advertised team’s work on renewable-energy and carbon-neutral solutions, as well as the role’s focus on energy efficiency in commercial and industrial properties. The vacancy describes Granlund as a multidisciplinary construction and real-estate design and consulting company. Its employer facts associate innovation activity and a stated sustainability focus with work in the built environment.

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Open Positions

1. HVAC Designer, Energy-Efficiency Projects

Official title: LVI-suunnittelija, energiatehokkuushankkeet, Helsinki — HVAC Designer, Energy-Efficiency Projects

Location: Malmi, Helsinki, Uusimaa, Finland | Employment information: Full-time; flexible between remote work and the Helsinki head office

The HVAC Designer, Energy-Efficiency Projects position is concerned with turning project and customer aims into design work that can be implemented. Granlund places the post in its Sustainability energy experts team in Helsinki, where energy-efficiency projects progress from early stages to commissioning. The assignment combines HVAC design with site visits and work on commercial and industrial property construction. It also creates scope, as expertise develops, to contribute to planning and preliminary studies while supporting service development and solutions for customer energy challenges. Renewable-energy and carbon-neutral solutions are also part of the team’s stated area of work.

Responsibilities

• Produce implementation-level design for energy-efficiency projects.
• Follow energy projects from their early stages through commissioning.
• Convert customer objectives into practical approaches for implementation.
• Complete HVAC design assignments within the project work.
• Undertake site visits as part of the day-to-day role.
• Support commercial and industrial property construction projects with sustainable, energy-efficient solutions.
• Contribute to project planning and preliminary studies as professional expertise develops.
• Help develop team services, address customer energy challenges and advance renewable-energy and carbon-neutral solutions.

Qualifications

• Hold an applicable HVAC engineering degree or a Master of Science in engineering degree.
• Bring previous design experience and the ability to take independent responsibility for design work.
• Demonstrate interest in building-services technology and energy efficiency across different property types.
• Be ready to learn and adopt new software and have a working foundation in AutoCAD.
• Use fluent Finnish and produce concise, professional expert text in Finnish.
• Communicate fluently with customers and colleagues, accept responsibility and continue developing professional expertise.
• Preferred: Bring experience of conventional building-services solutions and the ability to suggest ways of integrating site-specific solutions into an energy system.
• Preferred: Have experience using Revit.
• Preferred: Offer other language skills.

Skills and Competencies

• Apply HVAC and building-services design capability to assignments within energy-efficiency projects.
• Develop implementation design that turns energy-efficiency objectives into practical project work.
• Use understanding of energy systems and renewable-energy solutions when addressing customer energy challenges.
• Work from AutoCAD fundamentals in the preparation of design material.
• Use Revit experience as an advantage where it is relevant to the design assignment.
• Adopt new software and digital tools as the work and professional knowledge develop.
• Communicate fluently with customers and colleagues during technical design work.
• Prepare concise, professional Finnish expert text for the role’s technical context.
• Connect site-visit and commissioning awareness with project planning and preliminary-study work as expertise develops.

Benefits and Employment Information

• The employer lists a performance bonus available to all personnel.
• A personnel fund is included in the published benefits information.
• Spot bonuses of EUR 500-1500 are listed for excellent performance.
• The published package includes a commuter benefit of EUR 400 per year and a phone benefit.
• Granlund lists a lunch benefit and a sports, massage and culture benefit of EUR 200 per year.
• The benefits information includes recreation trips valued at EUR 400 per person per year and comprehensive occupational health care.
• Flexible return to work after family leave and a paid moving day are listed.
• An employer bicycle and insurance according to role are included in the stated benefits.
• This HVAC Designer role is full-time, with work flexible between remote work and the Helsinki head office, and the employer publishes a monthly salary range of EUR 3,000-4,500.

Application Guidance

Prepare a Focused Application

CV, Evidence, Documents, and Interview Preparation

General preparation guidance only: candidates for an HVAC and energy-efficiency design post can organise a concise portfolio or work summary around design assignments they have completed, their contribution to implementation work and examples of technical choices. It can be useful to prepare a clear account of experience with AutoCAD and any familiarity with Revit, separating established skills from areas still being learned. Applicants may also practise explaining how customer objectives were turned into practical design approaches, particularly where site visits or commissioning formed part of the work. Examples can be organised around actual commercial or industrial property assignments where relevant.

For an interview or written application, it may help to prepare accurate examples of independent design responsibility, communication with customers and collaboration with colleagues. A candidate can also consider how to describe interest in building-services technology, energy efficiency and different property types without overstating experience. Since fluent Finnish and concise professional expert writing are listed for this vacancy, general preparation may include reviewing technical writing samples for clarity. It may also be useful to distinguish practical implementation experience from preliminary-study or planning experience. This is general application guidance rather than an additional employer requirement or a statement of selection criteria.

• Prepare a concise CV that identifies relevant HVAC design experience and independent design responsibility.
• Select work examples that show how energy-efficiency objectives were developed into implementation-ready design approaches.
• Be ready to describe use of AutoCAD fundamentals and any experience with Revit accurately.
• Review examples of communication with customers and colleagues during design assignments.
• Prepare a concise Finnish technical writing sample only if an application process asks for supporting material.
• Consider examples involving site visits, commissioning, commercial properties or industrial properties where they reflect actual experience.

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