Fortaco Group

A LEAP FORWARD | New team member in Fortaco Group Sourcing & IT 🌟   We warmly welcome Gustav Svärd to the Fortaco team, as Senior Vice President, Group Sourcing & IT.    Gustav will start his journey with Fortaco in October, and he is also a member of the Group Leadership Team. 🍁 Gustav is a widely experienced professional in sourcing and IT, working for Volvo Group for 15 years with different supply chains and leading several digitalization initiatives.    At Fortaco, his focus will be on driving our supply chain, operational performances, and suppliers’ integration into the Fortaco Group business according to our international strategic initiatives and growth. He will also drive an intensive program to upgrade the ERP system to SAP S4/Hana and support Fortaco's Artificial Intelligence transformation.   Gustav's excellent background and knowledge support us in taking leaps forward in Sourcing and IT.   We wish Gustav the best of success as a part of Fortaco team! 👏🏻 #fortacogroup #sourcing #recruitment #supplychain

MORE THAN A COLLABORATION | Fortaco x Toyota 🌟 Our partnership with Toyota is strongly driven by our shared values, and for years, the Fortaco team has been learning Lean Management from the best.    Business Site Holic had an honor to host Toyota Lean Management Centre. This time, focusing on the implementation, coaching, and training of the TPS or Toyota Production System. 🔍 Innovation and excellence are the cornerstones of our business, and having Toyota coaching us in these, helps us to transfer the gained value to our customers. Toyota’s approach values its employees and encourages their input, helping us to support our teams’ engagement in our processes.   Why do we work with Toyota? 💡 Because we care about innovation. Because we strive for excellence. Because we are a strategic partner.  Because we shape the future together. Because we are unlike traditional suppliers.    Together we shape the future. ✨ Toyota Motor Corporation | Toyota Production System #fortacogroup #toyota #toyotaproductionsystem #toyotaleanmanagementsystem #teamwork #leanmanagement #production #innovation #excellence

WE ARE RECRUITING | Financial Controller 📊 We are strengthening our Group Finance Team and looking for a Financial Controller. In this role, you will be participating in the statutory financial operations of the Group, including financial reporting, Group audit process, and for example Group interim reporting. 📈   The role requires three to five years of experience in financial/accounting roles, and a suitable background could be assistant/junior controller or chief accountant (as an example). The background in auditing could also be considered relevant.   As a company, we are in the midst of a growth period, which makes this position professionally highly interesting. Group structures are changing, and we offer possibilities to develop our ways of working. 💡 Working in the position will offer you great chances to progress in your career, as the job description is not limited too tightly, but gives you an opportunity to bring your expertise to the table in different projects.   This is an excellent opportunity for a hands-on person, who wants to widen their professional financial skills and be part of a variety of projects. 🧑🏻💻 We offer you a truly flexible hybrid work, development path, possibilities for professional growth in financial operations, and many other benefits, including a competitive total compensation package. Our company language is English, but Finnish knowledge is required, as we prepare statutory reporting also in Finnish.   Read more about the position and apply via the link: 👇🏻 https://lnkd.in/g27_NTHm ----------------- Fortaco Group Fortaco is the leading strategic partner in Europe to the heavy off-highway equipment industries, providing premium offerings like technology & zero emission solutions, assemblies, vehicle cabins and steel fabrications. Fortaco Group has operations in multiple European Business Sites and Technology Hubs supporting our global customers. Our production facilities are located in Austria, Estonia, Finland, France, India, Poland, Serbia, and Slovakia. We employ 2800 people.

TECH TINKERER | Safety guy turned into tech ⛑ 💻 Arkadiusz Adamczyk, Lead Manufacturing Engineer in Fortaco’s Operational Development team (OD), is here to make his teammates’ life easier and more efficient.    Being a part of the OD team he has become familiar with CAD software and 3D printing, and these passions also follow him home, as he is always eager to find new solutions and inventions to problems. 💡 You will see the results of his work also in Fortaco’s greenfield production facility in Gliwice, Poland, where he is developing different kinds of production solutions together with the team.    Safety is always highlighted at Fortaco, and the previous part of Adamczyk’s career was already all about keeping people safe.   Read more about our safe tech guy’s work in the Fortaco world, link in the comments 👇🏻 #fortacogroup #operationaldevelopment #3dprinting #cad #fortacopoland #safety

TOP LEVEL DIPLOMAT | From the shop floor to the top floor 🪜 Peter Hietalahti, Account Manager at Fortaco Kurikka factory, has grown with Fortaco for 18 years - or should we say Fortaco has grown with him 🌱 This is a period of time in life when people reach adulthood - switch their teenage years to a more responsible way of living. Hietalahti has never lacked responsibility in his way of working, even though positions and responsibilities have varied a lot, and he has matured on the go. His journey started from cleaning cabin windows to Sales Engineer, and up to his current position as Account Manager. Today, his position includes a good amount of strategic communication with customers, where his strengths are found useful - there is a reason why he can be called a top-level diplomat. ⚖️ 💭 In his blog, Hietalahti opens up his journey with Fortaco until today - a link in the comments 👇🏻 #fortacogroup #fortacokurikka #accountmanager #vehiclecabin #manufacturing #diplomat #fromshoptotop

EXPANDING CAPACITY| Exciting times at Narva Business Site 🌟 Fortaco Estonia will open a new facility by the end of this year, which is an important milestone for the factory and Narva town development. Advanced production specialization line, prefabrication equipment, welding robots, and CNC-machinery centers offer customers competitive solutions and strong operational excellence. This important factory extension will offer jobs for 40-50 new employees in the beginning 👩🏻🏭👨🏼💼 Extension creates 8,000 m2 additional floor space for Narva Business Site operations, in addition to the current 35,000 m2 located in Narva city centre - with the total land area of approx. 100,000 m2. Fortaco’s five steel fabrication factories located in Estonia, Finland, and Poland offer manufacturing capabilities with the best-in-class equipment, including design, engineering, and aftermarket services. ⚙️ #fortacogroup #fortacoestonia #manufacturing #factoryextension #narva #steelfabrication #engineering #design

BREAKING STEREOTYPES | Where does the strength come from? 💭 At Fortaco, it comes from our people, teams, and diversity.   Our industry, the heavy off-highway equipment, is dominated by men, and even with the growing numbers of women within the field, the gap is still visible. As a company, we are fortunate to have women in all job positions from factory shopfloor to Fortaco's Senior Leadership Team, all around the company. 👩🏻🏭👩🏼💼   Where the stereotypes are mostly broken are the positions usually connected to men: welding, bending, surface treatment - to name a few.   Watch our video to have a sneak peek of women working at Fortaco Business Sites 👇🏻 #fortacogroup #womeninheavyindustry #manufacturing #breakingstereotypes #diversity #metalmanufacturing #offhighwayindustry

CAPACITY EXPANSION | Business Site Holic capacity extension project is soon ready 🌟 The new factory is a solid cornerstone for the current and future growth of the vehicle cabin business.   The extension is a critical platform to further support our customers by offering vehicle cabin assembly and production capacity based on a high degree of automation and strong operational excellence. Investing in automatization means investing in the future. 🚜 The 4000m2 factory extension will be finalized in autumn when operations in the factory will start. 🍁 Our factory in Holic, Slovakia offers vehicle cabin manufacturing capabilities to the world’s leading OEM customers, including design & engineering and aftermarket services.   Four vehicle cabin plants, four nice locations, four teams, and a common target: the best-in-class vehicle cabins and services for our customers. 🏅 #fortacogroup #holic #slovakia #businesssiteholic #vehiclecabin #manufacturing #factoryexpansion #design #engineering

NEW PRODUCT IN PORTFOLIO | Fortaco expands its product portfolio with spreaders 🌟 We are thrilled to announce that we have successfully accomplished the first spreader project and delivered products to a satisfied end customer.   The assembly work of spreaders, which includes mechanical-, hydraulic-, and electrical assembly and also welded components and final testing has been done in our Business Site Wroclaw, Poland. Our product portfolio for the module assemblies is increasing rapidly and the next customer project has been started. ↗️ We congratulate the Fortaco team in Wroclaw for the great work! 👏🏻 Don’t hesitate to contact us, we support your business needs effectively if your company needs services for vehicle or module assemblies. #fortacogroup #assembly #moduleassembly #vehicleassembly #manufacturing #spreader #portfolio

WELDING ON SPOTLIGHT | Highlight has been on our professional welders during the past month 🌟   Welding is a major part of many of our operations, and we are happy to have a team of welders full of experts. Welders are an integral part of our teams, especially at Steel Fabrication sites in Finland, Estonia, and Poland but also at our cabin factories.   To open their area of expertise to other colleagues, our welding teams decided to invite us to try welding. We had a great time with our professional welders sharing learnings about this versatile craft. 💡 Our skilled welders are worth gold, and we hope this demanding area will attract great professionals also in the future. #fortacogroup #welding #welders #steelfabrication #vehiclecabin #manufacturing