Industrial machinery and equipment

  • Good availability of highly educated and experienced engineering skills.

  • The labour force in the sector has great language skills. The most widely spoken languages are Russian, Finnish, Swedish, German and English.

  • Estonia offers an opportunity for cost-efficiency, including competitive labour and low transportation costs.

  • Manufacturing of machinery and equipment is largely dependent on exports - the World Bank has ranked Estonia among the TOP 7 in the world in ease of trade.


Manufacturing of machinery and equipment is one of the largest sub-sectors in the machinery and metalworking sector in Estonia. Ca 145 companies with 5 000 employees are active in the sector.

Examples of products manufactured in Estonia are woodworking machinery, forest trailers, timber hoists, different smaller components of machinery and large industrial antennas.

The main export markets are Sweden, Finland, Russia, Latvia, Germany and Denmark.

 

Strenghts of Estonian engineering labour pool

  • Deep supply of talent: Estonia offers a broad range of talent and engineering excellence, to accommodate both legacy disciplines and emerging areas of expertise. Flexibility and an adeptness to respond to change are strong characteristics.

  • Rich level of experience: The industry demonstrates the ability to retain talent as well as inject fresh skills into the sector. This will particularly facilitate investors looking to recruit staff at middle management level and upwards.

  • Age profile assures long-term supply of talent: The Engineering sector has a healthy supply of young talent.  Talent supply and retention in Estonia is extremely strong compared with the national average.

  • High levels of education: Government support at vocational level is strong within Engineering. Equally, the number of graduates coming through the education pipeline and entering the sector remains encouraging.

  • Multi-skilled workforce: Estonia's engineering talent pool can also support areas which require expertise in technology and renewable energy in particular.

  • Access to multi-lingual pool: A high proportion of engineering professionals are multi-lingual.

  • Estonia has a vast supply of unexploited talent: The intensity of engineers in Estonia accounts for 14 per cent of the total working population. There are an additional 47,000 workers with relevant Engineering skills available, which can facilitate quicker start-up times for investors.


Find out more about labour availability in Estonia and read case studies of foreign investors in Estonia.

 

To find out more, please contact:

Mr. Jaan Heinsoo
Investment project management services
Phone: +372 627 9520
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