Being a professional at Espoo
The City of Espoo has approximately 11,700 employees. Many of our employees work as early childhood education teachers or child carers, comprehensive school class teachers, lecturers, part-time teachers, architects, traffic engineers or property managers . However, there are hundreds of different job titles. In what field are you a professional? Get to know our professionals from different fields.
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In our vacancies(external link, opens in a new window), you can see for which jobs we are currently looking for experts.
Education
Come and work with children and young people from Espoo! As a professional in the field, you can work in our diverse tasks within education and early childhood education. We develop high-quality educational services in the spirit of the curriculum. As a professional in education, you will offer children and young people high-quality, diverse and regionally equal educational opportunities.
Working in the open and experimental atmosphere of early childhood education in Espoo is meaningful, versatile and instructive. As a professional in early childhood education, you have genuine opportunities to influence the operating culture. An extensive network of experts, evolving digitalisation and diverse training opportunities support your work. Strong professionalism and an understanding of the importance of the work unite our personnel.
Culture
Espoo is a vibrant cultural city. Cultural professionals can find employment opportunities in our innovative and active libraries, City Museum, City Orchestra Tapiola Sinfonietta and event and cultural services (Exhibition Centre WeeGee, Espoo Cultural Centre, Sello Hall, Children’s Cultural Centre Aurora, Kannusali and City Events).
We employ a wide range of experts: for example, orchestra musicians, curators of the City Museum, library pedagogues, producers and technicians of cultural venues. As a professional in your field, you get to work on cultural services for a wide range of audiences. In Espoo, culture belongs to everyone.
Cleaning and property maintenance
The professionals of the City of Espoo Premises Department public utility attend to the care, repairs and construction of the city’s premises and buildings as well as the maintenance and cleaning of the properties.
Our institutional cleaners make sure that the users of the premises can work and use services in clean and tidy premises every day. Our professional property managers ensure that the buildings are in perfect condition and always enjoyable to work in.
Engineering and design
Engineers, designers and other technical professionals work to create a functional and comfortable Espoo. Finland’s second largest city offers opportunities to work with, for example, town planning, municipal engineering, the construction of transport routes and environmental management. As a technical professional, you will get to do visible work that is relevant for both residents and companies. You will see the results of your work concretely. Welcome to growing and developing Espoo!
City Planning employs for example architects, engineers, landscape architects and traffic planners. Read what these professionals tell about their work.
"My main goal is to make our environment safe and accessible". Watch what our Permit Officers have to say about their jobs(external link, opens in a new window).
Administrative work
Good municipal services require good administration to support them. In addition to traditional municipal administration tasks, we offer job opportunities to lawyers, procurement and accounting professionals and communication and human resources management experts. The range of job titles is wide. The clients of the administration include both the residents of the municipality and other professionals of the city’s organisation.