Steerprop is the leading designer and manufacturer of azimuth propulsion solutions for the most demanding applications and toughest conditions. Our unrivaled experience and fit-for-purpose solutions are a testament to our experts&rsquo; commitment to continuous development, steadfast dedication to meet our customers&rsquo; needs and our unwavering resolve to perform.

Will you be the next to join our committed team of experts? We have hundreds of years of combined expertise in mechanics, automation and electrical engineering, hydrodynamics and ice-class certification in our company, and we are constantly looking for more!

<h3 class="article__heading--h3">At Steerprop you will enjoy the benefits of a co-active, international working community, where you can learn from and share your expertise with leading experts in their fields.</h3>

<h2 class="article__heading--h2">How to apply?</h2>

Come join us in resolving our customers&rsquo; challenges, adding value to their business and contributing to their success!

Send an open application and CV to careers(at)steerprop.com and tell us about your resolve to perform!

<h2 class="article__heading--h2">Are you about to start working on your thesis or looking for an internship?</h2>

Feel free to contact us at careers(at)steerprop.com to discuss possible thesis topics and to apply for a thesis collaboration or internship!

Will you be the next to join our committed team of experts? We have hundreds of years of combined expertise in mechanics, automation and electrical engineering, hydrodynamics and ice-class certification in our company, and we are constantly looking for more!

Career opportunities

Every year we at Steerprop look for summer trainees with a resolve to perform &ndash; students that are curious and solution-focused and who are eager to learn and develop both on a personal and professional level. We have talked to Vilma and Olavi who started working at Steerprop as summer trainees and have now continued to work with us alongside their studies.

Vilma Heinonen from Tampere is in her fourth year of Information and Knowledge Management studies, and Olavi R&auml;is&auml;nen from Oulu is a Mechanical Engineering Master&rsquo;s degree student.

When Olavi started to look for a summer job, he had a couple of criteria: &quot;I wanted to work with mechanical engineering design and I hoped to find a company where I could also work on and complete my Master&rsquo;s thesis,&quot; Olavi says.

At Steerprop he found the summer job that met his criteria. During the summer Olavi worked at the Product Management department with his own design project, and since then he has continued the work he started in the summer as part of his Master&rsquo;s thesis: &quot;At the end of the summer I was offered a thesis topic related to the preloading of propeller shaft bearings. Since my experience from the summer was nothing but positive, I was happy to continue at Steerprop. The topic is really interesting and the work has progressed well so far,&quot; Olavi says.

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<div class="article__figure__placeholder"><img alt="After the summer, Olavi continued working on his Master's thesis at Steerpop." src="https://flockler.com/thumbs/sites/13425/olavi_2-2cd5a82f-9057-4ec0-9a01-613158b554a5_s600x0_q80_noupscale.jpg" /></div>

<figcaption>After the summer, Olavi continued working on his Master&#39;s thesis at Steerpop.</figcaption>
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Vilma, on the other hand, worked in the Project Management department with tasks mostly linked to production planning. She was able to experience how her work had concrete impact on the company as she got to be part of refining the operations of Steerprop&rsquo;s new production and assembly workshop. This work gave her an excellent overview of the entire company&#39;s operations: &quot;If I had to pinpoint one specific thing that I learned over the summer, it would probably be the configuration of the azimuth propellers. I spent so many hours during the summer working on production processes and instructions that I could probably account for the whole production process in my sleep,&quot;&nbsp;she says.

As all summer trainees, Olavi and Vilma have been given many opportunities to learn and develop new skills and to apply their studies in practice. &quot;I have learned a lot of useful things at the university, such as project management, quality management and mechanics,&quot; Vilma says. &quot;However, I consider the ability to apply one&#39;s own knowledge and the courage to try new things to be even more important,&quot; she continues.

&quot;I have earlier worked in maintenance planning, but since then I decided to change the direction of my studies. I want to be able to influence the usability, durability and maintainability of machines already at the design table, and that&rsquo;s why I switched my major to machine design,&quot; Olavi tells us.

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&quot;All the work I did at Steerprop during the summer has been strongly related to my current studies. Using what I have learned at university in practice has strengthened and deepened my skills,&quot; he adds.
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Both Vilma and Olavi agree that their expectations for the summer were met at Steerprop.

&quot;I really enjoyed my summer job, it was suitably challenging and it included a fair amount of independent problem solving. The Steerprop work community is really nice and I&rsquo;m happy for the opportunity to stay and continue with my thesis work,&quot; Olavi says.

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<figcaption>The skills learned during the summer at Steerprop have been useful to Vilma in her studies.</figcaption>
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&quot;I think it&rsquo;s the people that make a workplace great. The good feeling I got already when interviewing for the job at Steerprop encouraged me to move to Rauma for the summer. I knew that I would have nice colleagues and an interesting summer,&quot; Vilma says.

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&quot;My expectations&nbsp;were definitively met and I spent a fun and educational summer in Rauma!&quot;
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After the summer, also Vilma continued to work at Steerprop alongside her studies. She has now been working with e.g. production planning and competitor analyses. &quot;Combining studies and work has gone without any major challenges as I can decide on my working hours quite freely,&quot; Vilma says. &quot;I am currently studying product and process information management, i.e. production system planning, production control and production technology, for example. These areas are quite familiar to me from my summer job at Steerprop and it has proven very helpful in my studies,&quot; she continues.

Looking back at her first days at Steerprop in the summer, Vilma remembers one particular moment that made her studies that much more concrete: &quot;I will always remember my first visit to the production hall at Steerprop. For someone who dreamed of becoming a dolphin trainer as a little girl, seeing that first propeller with my own eyes made it real to me; I really am going to be an engineer,&quot; she says with a smile.

<h2>Are you looking for a summerjob or thesis topic?</h2>

Feel free to contact us at careers(at)steerprop.com to discuss possible thesis topics and to apply for a thesis collaboration, summer job or internship. Also check out our <a href="https://steerprop.com/careers/join-us">open positions</a>!

Every year we at Steerprop look for summer trainees with a resolve to perform – students that are curious and solution-focused and who are eager to learn and develop both on a personal and professional level.

Working at Steerprop supports students' development as professionals

Every summer we at Steerprop offer a variety of interesting and versatile trainee positions in several departments at our headquarters in Rauma. In this way we help secure future availability of knowledgeable expertise in our industry. Our summer trainees receive valuable work experience and an opportunity to apply the competences they acquire during their studies in practice, and we get to enjoy these future professionals&rsquo; enthusiasm, energy and fresh, new ideas.

The summer is now over, and we have said goodbye to our summer trainees as they have returned to their studies. But before they left, we asked some of them to tell us a little about their summer with us.

Oskari Ojamaa and Markus Taulu are both Master&rsquo;s degree students of Information and Communication Technology. Oskari is studying at the University of Turku and is starting his third year of studies, while Markus is starting his fourth year at the LUT University in Lappeenranta.

Oskari is already quite familiar with Steerprop, this summer was already his fourth in Steerprop&rsquo;s Product Management department, and he has had the opportunity to work with many different tasks together with highly skilled and experienced colleagues.

&quot;Working at Steerprop during these four summers has felt special to me. I have encountered many different tasks and challenges, from printing and assembling customer manuals during my first summer, to web programming and reviewing integral calculus this past summer,&quot; he says.

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&quot;The tasks have developed nicely along the development of my own skills,&quot; he continues. &quot;This is one of the reasons why I have been happy to return to Steerprop one summer after the other.&quot;
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Oskari tells us further that this year he had the best summer job experience so far, as he was able to make real use of his programming skills, developing calculation tools intended for internal use.

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<div class="article__figure__placeholder"><img alt="The tasks have developed along with Oskari's skills during the four summers he has worked at Steerprop." src="https://flockler.com/thumbs/sites/13425/oskari_1_small2-33d9b0de-3ddd-4a3e-a088-378846efe171_s600x0_q80_noupscale.jpg" /></div>

<figcaption>The tasks have developed along with Oskari&#39;s skills during the four summers he has worked at Steerprop.</figcaption>
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For Markus this summer was his first at Steerprop. He worked in the Project Management team making instructions and collecting data and deviations in the document management system, among many other tasks.

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&quot;This summer I have learned how challenging it can be to manage all the different parts of a project and, related to my IT studies, I have come to realise why software need to be properly planned before implementation,&quot; he explains.
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&quot;I especially liked working with an IT systems review. I interviewed a lot of different people in various departments, getting to know my colleagues much better than I would normally have done,&quot; he continues.

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<div class="article__figure__placeholder"><img alt="Markus Taulu gained valuable experience in Steerprop's Project Management team." src="https://flockler.com/thumbs/sites/13425/markus_2_small-2c0d96a0-e430-4833-a68c-e34ee2149456_s600x0_q80_noupscale.jpg" /></div>

<figcaption>Markus Taulu gained valuable experience in Steerprop&#39;s Project Management team.</figcaption>
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Both Oskari and Markus have enjoyed their summer at Steerprop. They have felt very welcome into Steerprop&rsquo;s inspiring and supportive work atmosphere:

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&quot;It was great to have such a helpful and nice colleague, always ready to support me and give advice. Brainstorming together and solving mathematical problems related to programming tasks was definitely one of the highlights of the summer,&quot; Oskari says.
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&quot;I will especially remember the good atmosphere in the workplace. I never felt embarrassed or afraid to ask questions or express my opinions,&quot; Markus adds.

<h2 class="article__heading--h2">Are you looking for a summerjob&nbsp;or thesis topic?</h2>

Feel free to contact us at careers(at)steerprop.com&nbsp;to discuss possible thesis topics and to apply for a thesis collaboration, summer job or internship.&nbsp;Also check out our <a href="/careers/join-us" rel="">open positions</a>!

Every summer we at Steerprop offer a variety of interesting and versatile trainee positions in several departments. Our summer trainees receive valuable work experience and an opportunity to apply the competences they acquire during their studies in practice.

IT students gain broad experience at Steerprop

Every summer we at Steerprop offer a variety of interesting and versatile trainee positions in several departments at our headquarters in Rauma. Our summer trainees receive valuable work experience and an opportunity to apply the competences they acquire during their studies in practice, and we get to enjoy these future professionals’ enthusiasm, energy and fresh, new ideas.

At Steerprop we want to support future mechanical and electrical engineering professionals by offering opportunities to gain practical experience in their field of study. Each year we therefore&nbsp;welcome students as summer trainees at various departments in Steerprop.

We talked to Meeri Simberg and Jukka-Pekka Aromaa before they ended their summer trainee period and went back to their studies of electrical and automation technology at Satakunta University of Applied Sciences in Pori.

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<figcaption>Jukka-Pekka Aromaa and Meeri Simberg worked both in the Electrical &amp; Automation department and in Steerprop&rsquo;s Assembly Shop during last summer. They enjoyed the variety of tasks they were doing and they say they learned a lot from their trainee period at Steerprop.</figcaption>
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Both Meeri and Jukka-Pekka had the possibility to get experience from the Electrical and Automation (E&amp;A) department, working with eg. the&nbsp;ERP system and the electrical drawing program, and in Steerprop&rsquo;s Assembly Shop assembling&nbsp;Steerprop control systems.

Meeri was very happy for the broad work experience she gained during the summer.

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&quot;Landing this summer job was like winning the lottery! I have had the opportunity to learn so much from all the different tasks I have done&quot;, Meeri says. &quot;I have particularly enjoyed doing electrical installations&quot;, she continues.
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While working with us, summer trainees typically start to realise which areas of operations interest them most. For example at the E&amp;A department where we design the electric hardware and software for Steerprop azimuth propulsor systems, the process consists of several areas; the integration to other vessels&rsquo; systems, internal safety and reliability functions as well as designing human-machine interfaces. Experiencing these different areas in practice may prove quite helpful when planning future studies, in fact, many of our trainees decide to dig more into their favourite topics by writing their thesis for us.

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<figcaption>&ldquo;Getting the summerjob at Steerprop was like winning the lottery! I have learned a lot, but I also know there is so much more to learn. It feels like we just got started,&rdquo; says Meeri Simberg who has worked in the electrical and automation design department.</figcaption>
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&quot;I enjoyed all the different tasks I had, but my favorite job was the standardization of screen design, as I&rsquo;m especially interested in the human-machine interface&quot;, Jukka-Pekka says. &quot;I&rsquo;m excited to get to write my Bachelor&rsquo;s thesis on this work&quot;, he continues.

Jukka-Pekka has, as part of his Bachelor&acute;s thesis, worked on standardization guidelines for display design systems and has written a brief guide on what displays should look like in the future.

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&quot;I have really enjoyed my time at Steerprop, the work atmosphere here is super and everyone here is very nice and helpful&quot;, Jukka-Pekka says.
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Meeri chimes in and concludes: &quot;I want to thank all my co-workers for the positive work atmosphere, the lessons learned and all the advice I have received! The colleagues have been so nice and I have felt very welcome at Steerprop&quot;, she says with a smile.

At Steerprop we want to support future mechanical and electrical engineering professionals by offering opportunities to gain practical experience as summer trainees.

Future professionals enjoyed their summer at Steerprop

At Steerprop we want to support future mechanical and electrical engineering professionals by offering opportunities to gain practical experience in their field of study. Each year we therefore welcome students as summer trainees at various departments in Steerprop.

At Steerprop we have the privilege each summer to welcome a number of summer trainees to our company. These young, future professionals get an opportunity to use and develop the competences they have acquired during their studies through interesting and meaningful work that have a real impact on our customer projects. In return we gain valuable input and plenty of fresh ideas. It&rsquo;s a real win-win situation for us, for our trainees and for our customers!

Before our summer trainees returned to their studies in the fall, we met up to exchange a few words.

Tapio Tiihonen and Juho Salminen worked throughout the summer in the Product Management department. In this department, we manage product development and design, the mechanical design of delivery projects, R&amp;D projects and the sales support function.

Juho and Tapio both had their own mechanical design and development tasks that they worked independently on.

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&quot;I have learned a lot about mechanical design and 3D modeling, as well as about teamwork and communication in the workplace&quot;, Tapio says.
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Both Tapio and Juho study mechanical engineering at Aalto University in Espoo, and they were happy for the opportunity to gain practical experience in their field of study.

&quot;I have especially enjoyed the tasks involving hydraulic calculations and concept design, as I have great interest in fluid dynamics&quot;, Juho says. &quot;Doing flow calculations is both interesting and challenging and seeing how my calculations had actual impact on real-life product design was so cool&quot;, he explains.

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<figcaption>Juho Salminen was happy to receive tasks that corresponded to his studies at our Product Management department. He was particularly excited to see how his calculations had an actual impact on real-life product design.</figcaption>
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Many of Steerprop&rsquo;s summer trainees return to work for us the following year, and some may even stay on permanently after they have graduated. &quot;My co-workers have been superb and I have truly liked the work atmosphere at Steerprop. Who knows, I might return here someday&quot;, Juho says with a smile.

Tapio agrees, he felt very welcome in the Steerprop working community and found it easy to get to know the colleagues and to ask for advice whenever needed. &quot;I had a lot of questions, but the colleagues at Steerprop always supported me, providing help and advice&quot;, he says.

They both agree they had a memorable summer with us.

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&quot;I liked my job a lot; the versatility of the work and being able to make a difference with my design was very satisfying&quot;, Tapio tells us.
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Each summer Steerprop welcomes a number of summer trainees and offers them an opportunity to develop their competences through interesting and meaningful tasks.

Steerprop offers valuable learning opportunities

At Steerprop we each summer welcome a number of summer trainees to our company and offer them an opportunity to use and develop their competences through interesting and meaningful tasks.