Apprentice Trainee – Engineering (Mechanical)
Valmet — Chennai, Tamil Nadu
₹4–9 LPA (HireSetu estimate) · Entry level · Freshers eligible · Contract · Apply by 5 Nov 2026
HireSetu listing reference 948424 · employer requisition R61317 — confirm requirements below, then apply on the employer site.
Quick answer: A contract apprenticeship for fresh mechanical engineering graduates on Valmet's service mechanical engineering team. The work is 2D and 3D drawings, BOMs and spare parts support for boiler retrofit and upgrade cases that come in from Finland and Sweden.
From Valmet's job posting
Apprentice Trainee for Pulp, Energy circularity in Services engineering (based in Chennai, India)
Are you an enthusiastic, self-driven and result-oriented professional who wants to improve our customer’s performance forward?
We are looking for “Apprentice Trainee - ME” to be based in Chennai, India. You have an opportunity to be part of the team that delivers projects & services globally to pulp and energy industry.
You will be handling Global services cases of Boiler Retrofit/ Upgrade projects and time to time provide support to global projects coming from HQ based in Finland / Sweden.
The successful candidate is expected to perform the following tasks;
- Learn the basic activities and processes of the Service Mechanical Engineering (SER ME) team.
- Assist experienced engineers in preparing and modifying 2D/3D drawings and models.
- Learn CAD tools such as SolidWorks and AutoCAD through training and practical assignments.
- Support preparation of drawings, BOMs, and basic technical documentation.
- Gain basic knowledge of different service products and their mechanical engineering applications.
- Support engineers with simple project, spare parts, and engineering tasks under guidance.
- Participate in product training, technical workshops, and knowledge-sharing sessions.
- Work with senior and global engineers to understand engineering standards, quality, and safety requirements.
- Learn from ongoing projects and gradually take responsibility for basic engineering tasks.
- Continuously develop technical, communication, and teamwork skills.
The ideal candidate is expected to hold the following.
- Bachelor’s degree in Mechanical Engineering, preferably a fresh graduate.
- Basic understanding of mechanical engineering and engineering drawings.
- Basic knowledge of SolidWorks, AutoCAD, Soild Works, or similar CAD tools is an advantage.
- Good interest in design, modelling, and mechanical engineering.
- Good communication and teamwork skills.
- Strong willingness to learn and develop technical competence.
- Open to learning different products, engineering tools, and working methods.
We offer
We offer you a rewarding position in a global industry leader in pulp and energy industries with the possibilities to grow professionally.
If this sounds like something you are looking for and you are ready to go forward in your career, send your application with your CV via the link provided latest by 05th November 2026
When everything works together
Valmet is where the best talent from a wide variety of backgrounds comes together. With 17,000 professionals around the world, we are the leading global developer and supplier of technologies, automation and services for the pulp, paper and energy industries, and serve an even wider base of process industries with our automation systems and flow control solutions. Our commitment to moving our customers’ performance forward requires creativity, technological innovations, service know-how – and above all, teamwork.
Join the team! www.valmet.com/careers
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A week at the drawing desk
SolidWorks or AutoCAD will be open most of the day, and the drawings you touch belong to retrofit and upgrade cases an experienced engineer owns. Expect a mix of modifying models, tidying drawings, pulling together BOMs and chasing spare part details. Retrofit work means drawing around a boiler that already sits on a customer site, and the reference material is old site drawings. Some of your questions go to engineers in Finland or Sweden, so a couple of hours of overlap land at one end of your day.
Brush up on drawing conventions
Get comfortable with orthographic and section views, tolerances, surface finish marks and weld symbols before you start. BOM structure matters too: what a line item carries, how part numbers and quantities are ordered, and why one missing item stalls a purchase. On the mechanical side, read up on pressure parts, heat exchangers and the flue gas path through a boiler, since that is the equipment these retrofit cases revolve around. Taking a faded legacy drawing and working out what actually changed is the everyday skill here.
After the apprenticeship
The listing describes a path from assisting on tasks to holding basic engineering tasks yourself, which is the normal shape of a service engineering apprenticeship. Mechanical design, project engineering and service roles in pulp, paper and energy sit directly ahead of it. This is a contract position, so the length of the apprenticeship and what happens when it ends are worth clarifying before you plan around it. Ask which retrofit cases you would start on and who you would report to.
Prepared from Valmet's job posting and checked against it before publishing. See our Editorial Policy.
How to apply
- The Apply button opens this job on Valmet's careers site (valmet.wd103.myworkdayjobs.com).
- Its requisition number is R61317-1; search for it on the careers site if the link ever stops working.
- Applications close on 5 Nov 2026.
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