Lead Engineer – White Liquor and Evaporation (WLE) TU products

Location: Chennai, India

Driving lifecycle performance and customer success in White Liquor & Evaporation (WLE) plant engineering.

Join our WLE Process & Applications team as a Lead Engineer and play a key role in delivering technically strong and lifecycle‑optimized WLE solutions to our global customer base. This is a permanent position located in Chennai, offering excellent opportunities to deepen your expertise and advance your career within WLE technology.

In this role, your primary technical focus will be on Evaporation & white liquor plant engineering, while working within a broader context that includes evaporation, Ash treatment system, Recausticizer and Limekiln. You will contribute to customer success by supporting WLE solutions across their full lifecycle – from capital project design and execution to service, upgrades, modernization and long‑term operational performance.

You will be part of a globally distributed WLE Process & Applications organization, with colleagues working mainly in Chennai,



Gothenburg, Karlstad and Copenhagen. This role plays a key part in global deliveries through solid engineering execution and close cooperation between the Chennai, Sweden and Denmark.

Your role and responsibilities

As a Lead Engineer – WLE Process & Applications, your responsibilities will primarily focus on WLE products, while considering the wider pulp mill process and lifecycle:
- Lead and perform process and engineering in WLE projects within capital deliveries and service scopes
- Act as a Lead Engineer with technical responsibility, working in close collaboration with product management located in Sweden and Denmark.
- Develop process concepts, engineering solutions and technical configurations based on customer needs and lifecycle requirements
- Perform dimensioning, calculations and technical evaluations related to WLE systems and interfaces related to pulp mill products
- Prepare, rev

📌 Lead Process Engineer (Chennai)
🏢 Valmet
📍 Chennai