Summer Trainee, Industrial design, Reference Design team

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Founded in 1910, KONE is a global leader that provides elevators, escalators and automatic building doors, as well as solutions for maintenance and modernization that add value to buildings throughout their life cycle. Our mission is to improve the flow of urban life and make our world's cities better places to live by providing innovative solutions that help make people's journeys safe, convenient and reliable. Our operations in over 60 countries around the world has helped us achieve our position as an innovation and sustainability leader with repeated recognitions by Forbes, Corporate Knights for clean capitalism and others. 

KONE's vision is to create the Best People Flow experience by providing ease, effectiveness and experience to our customers and users. In line with our strategy, Sustainable Success with Customers, we will focus on increasing the value we create for customers with new intelligent solutions and embed sustainability even deeper across all of our operations. By closer collaboration with customers and partners, KONE will increase the speed of bringing new services and solutions to the market.

KONE Technology and Innovation (KTI) is where we combine the physical world with smart and connected digital systems. We are changing and improving the way billions of people move within buildings every day. We are on a mission to expand and develop new solutions that are based on emerging technologies.

KONE R&D brings together top talent from different disciplines into an industry-leading product and technology organization. We thrive in solving complex customer challenges, connecting legacy with the latest technologies. Agile ways of working mean that we are better able to meet our customers' rapidly evolving needs for speed and innovation, in a global environment.

KONE Design is a global multi-expertise team designing next generation services, game-changing physical and digital products to inspire our customers and end users with meaningful and engaging experiences. We all share a human oriented and holistic approach to make future living better in an urban environment.

We are now looking for a

Summer Trainee, Industrial design, Reference Design team
to work with designers in Reference design and Industrial design teams. Reference design team is responsible of custom design projects. Industrial design team is responsible for device and equipment design. You would work with all of us in our ongoing projects. You will be part of Reference Design team in Hyvinkää, Finland. We expect you to be at the Hyvinkää office 3 days a week.

We are looking for a design student with ongoing studies (at least 2nd year studies) to work for four months between May and September 2026, based on availability and preference.

Your work would happen in following areas: concept design, 3D-modeling and printing, model and prototype building as well as supporting implementation - both individually and as part of the team.

Please also specify if any of your hobby projects or other areas of interest in life could be considered as a plus.

You would like this job if You
* Love to build and craft with your hands and learn new things by prototyping new concepts and products.
* You're familiar with some of basic cad and visualization tools, for example Rhino, Keyshot, Adobe software.
* It is natural to you to use your imagination, creative mind together with analytical thinking.

We offer
* A dynamic environment in constantly developing global, award winning design team
* Interesting projects and fun, passionate and highly experienced team mates
* Possibility to strengthen your skills and learn new things

We have a relaxed atmosphere where respect of both the individual and planet has high importance. We emphasize working together in the teams and we also understand that proper work-life balance is important to create meaningful results in a long run.

Want to join the #PeopleFlow?
If you think this could be an inspiring challenge for the summer 2026, please tell more about yourself, your availability during the summer and why you are interested in this specific role and submit your CV & Portfolio and application letter via our Careers-site https://careers.kone.com/en/find-jobs/ latest on 14th February 2026.

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At KONE, we are focused on creating an innovative and collaborative working culture where we value the contribution of each individual. Employee engagement is a key focus area for us and we encourage participation and the sharing of information and ideas. Sustainability is an integral part of our culture and the daily practice. We follow ethical business practices and we seek to develop a culture of working together where co-workers trust and respect each other and good performance is recognized. In being a great place to work, we are proud to offer a range of experiences and opportunities that will help you to achieve your career and personal goals and enable you to live a healthy and balanced life.

Read more on www.kone.com/careers