By the end of this year, the Stora Enso Oulu Oy factory will begin cardboard manufacture. Pinja’s design engineers Hanna-Maria Angeria ja Iida Vaara have interesting areas of responsibility in the Oulu grand project.
- As young designers it feels good to have a real role on the construction site. This is an important gesture of trust from both the employer and the customer. The workplace community has also supported us nicely, Angeria says with gratitude.
Iida is responsible for the site electrification engineering, but she is also the installation supervisor of electrical works. Hanna-Maria works as the construction site instrumentation engineer.
- My work begins with the needs of contractors, I make their work possible and solve problems as they occur. In the most concrete terms: my job is to solve situations when the contractor should be installing the supply cable into the ground, but suddenly there is scaffolding on the digging route. Of course we aim to avoid such situations altogether, but surprises occur since there are hundreds of people working on site, Iida describes her tasks.
Iida, who graduated as a process engineer, has especially enjoyed the diversity of her workplace and the support from co-workers at Pinja.
Hanna-Maria is an electrical engineer. She managed several smaller tasks at Pinja before the Oulu project, which has been revealing its true scope gradually. In Oulu she has been responsible for site design.
- I’m like a pathway between designers and about a hundred contractors. I see to it that works stay in schedule, but I may also go and actually check a box in the electrical room to see whether it needs new I/O cards, Hanna-Maria describes.
A large-scale modification project
Changing the production line of a former paper mill is a major job, its scope is reflected in the total budget of 350 million euros. The production line for virgin fiber based cardboard is designed to have an annual production capacity of 450,000 tonnes.
The project began last year and Pinja is contributing with a wide range of expertise. In addition to other contractors and subcontractors, dozens of workers from Pinja’s various offices are involved: programming skills from Jyväskylä, instrumentation expertise and electrical design from Oulu, and the design of mechanical processes and pipelines from Kouvola.
- All our design fields are for the first time engaged in the same project. It is challenging, but has also streamlined the project progress, since all expertise comes from under the same roof, conclude Iida and Hanna-Maria.
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