1. Cover Letter Seppo Matias Viio
Seppo Matias Viio
Address: 33 Pälsyntie, 90900 Kiiminki, Finland
Phone: + (358) 400 581 191 | Email: seppoviio@yahoo.com
LinkedIn: http://fi.linkedin.com/pub/seppo-viio/67/551/610
Skype: seppo.viio Set time in Email.
KEY AREAS:
• Infrastructure Projects including International Highways, Railroads & Tunnels, Canals, Airports, Bridges, Underpasses, Buildings,
On- and Offshore Marine Works, Harbors’, Coast Line Protection, Breaker Waves, Dams, Islands, Plant Areas.
• Petrochemical Plants, Central Processing Facilities, Pipelines, Flow-lines, Wellhead Tie-ins, Fabrication works and Tank Erection
including all associated Civil and Mechanical Construction, Piping, Electrical & Instrumentation Works. Oil and Gas-, LNG-,
Steel-, Paper and Power- Industry Site Preparation Internal Works. Tank Farms; Up- and Down building.
• Water Building; Water, Waste Water, Pressured and Slope lines with Bump Stations, Water Power Stations, Closed Circle
Water- and Waste Water Treatment, Intakes, Outfalls, Sea and River Submerges.
• Pipelines; Oil, Gas, IT, Lightning, Water, Waste Water, Sewage’s and Drains.
• Open- and Underground Mining; Mines, Drilling and Blasting, Tunnels, Vibration.
KEY SKILLS:
• Company & Project Lead. Technical & Financial Management. Increasing Company & Project Value. Research of new business
areas, ideas and methods. Contracts & Claims Management. Risk Management. Quality Management. HSES Management.
• Client Management; Relationship building, Negotiation, Ability to support Client, Understanding Client request, Advising, Claims,
Trouble shooting and Hand Over.
• Ability to see Projects from Company and Client side.
• Total understanding of the area which I present, from “roof to floor”.
• Capable to see far beyond.
• Senior professional with over 28 years international experience, from tender to client hand over in time and budget.
• 25 years Managing Director experience in Survey. Totally 36 years.
• 17 years Project Manager experience, 11 years Construction & Quality Manager experience, 24 years Board experience. 17
years Maintenance experience.
OPERATIONAL / MANAGERIAL SKILLS:
• Drawings - Project Planning – Scheduling - Commissioning – Tender – Start Up – Contracts - Management – Survey - Quality
Program ISO 9001:2005, 9001:2008, 9004:2009 and 19011:2012 – HSES Programs JSA, JSM, TBM, - Reports - Exploring -
Expanding – Claims management – Client negotiation – Close Down – Client hand over.
• Leading Engineering and Work Force from 10 to 120 personnel - Accustomed to, working and collaborating with people of diverse
national, linguistic and cultural backgrounds and managing remote operations with minimal supervision from head office - Ability
to support multiple simultaneous projects, working under extreme pressure in any situation and in extreme weather locations
ranging from cold parts of Finland (-42°C) to hot areas of Yemen (+43°C).
• Self-starter with ability to trouble shoot and solve technical problems. Enthusiastic, proactive and flexible approach, to work.
EDUCATION / TRAINING:
• BSc, 4 year in Road-, Railroad- and Water building Technical Institute Oulu, Finland 1986.
• Main studies; Road-, Railroad- and Water building, Survey, Drawing, Planning, Iron and concrete structures, Economy,
Scheduling, Computers, Quality programs, Health, Safety, Environment.
• Languages; Fluent in English, Native in Finnish/Swedish, German Good, Arabic 6 months work speaking experience.
Seppo Matias Viio | Phone: + (358) 400 581 191 | Email: seppoviio@yahoo.com
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• Certification to approve personal skill tests, Lappia Vocational School Tornio, Finland 2010.
• Individual Education I and II, University Jyväskylä, Finland 2010.
• Military Education: Pioneer Sergeant Sodankylä, Finland 1986 – 1987.
PROFESSIONAL QUALIFICATIONS:
• Red Cross First Aid, Finnish Red Cross 2011.
• National Occupational Safety Training, The Centre For Occupational Safety 2011.
• Hot Work Licence, SPEK Finland 2011.
• Road Safety, Road Administration Finland 2012.
• Proficient in Microsoft Office Suit and Internet Specific Applications.
• Publications: Safety, ergonomic and maintenance. Publisher: Lappia Vocational School & EU.
• Built electrical Mining book curriculum for basic and vocational exam (Moodle).
Highways & Roads:
• 3 EU 4 Highway projects, tens of local motorways and hundreds of roads.
• Bridges, Drums, Pipelines, Water- and Waste Water lines, Heating lines, Lightning and IT lines.
• Project Management, Engineering Management, from tender to client hand over.
• Reporting to client and company stockholders.
Railways:
• Started at Finnish railroads 1978. Survey and Planning Oulu eastern railroad. Building railroads for Finnish State.
• Supplying railroad gravel for Finnish railroads over 10 years. Supplying railroad gravel for Swedish railroads.
• Built railroads for paper factories in plant areas, seas, and mining companies. Tunnels building.
• Involved with Talvivaara mine railroad. Involved with Baltic supplying railroad gravel. Graduated in railroad building A+.
• Last Talvivaara mine railroad, value €250M.
• Reporting to client and MD.
Water building:
• Water, Waste Water, Pressured and Slope lines with Bump Stations, IT, electric lines.
• Water Power Stations, Closed Circle Water- and Waste Water Treatment for Government, Towns and Industry.
• Intakes, Outfalls, Pipelines with Sea and River Submerges, Harbours’, Coast Line Protection, Breaker Waves, Dams, Islands,
Plants.
• Off-, and Onshore Marine Works, Canals for Government, Towns and Industry.
• Sewage lines bump stations, water and waste water treatment plants for Plants, Towns and Highways.
• Closed circle water treatment with bump stations for mines. Subsurface drains for dams, with bump stations.
• Water power station building for River. Roads, railroads and plant areas to sea.
• Harbors break waves, coast line protection with rock and concrete blocks. Island building for sea.
• Reporting client and line manager.
Pipelines:
• Gross Country Pipelines, to Land, Underground and Air.
• Pipelines; Oil, Gas, IT, Lightning, Water, Waste Water, Sewage’s and Drains for Government, Towns, Industry.
• Reporting to client and line manager
Seppo Matias Viio | Phone: + (358) 400 581 191 | Email: seppoviio@yahoo.com
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Tunnels & Mining:
• I offer 28 years extensive experience in the areas of open and underground mining in private sector.
• Worked in 8 different open and underground mines as Project Manager, Construction Manager, and Civil Engineer.
• Educated 200+ miners to mine industry, for companies such as; Outokumpu Steel(chrome), LKAB (iron) and Agnico Eagle (gold).
• Mine industry educator; Earth works, Dam building, Drilling and Blasting and Vibration, Crushing and Screening, Loading and
Transporting, Diamond-, Preparation- and Production drilling, Screen and Cable bolting, Washing, Concrete spraying fibre and
underground mine back-fill operations. Work facilities, Survey, Maintenance and Laws.
• Author for building mine industry material for Safety, Ergonomic and Maintenance.
• Developed electrical mining book, curriculum for basic and vocational exam.
• HSES-, QA- and QC- programs. Maintenance monitoring.
• Project –planning, -execution, -counting, - cost, - schedule, -monitoring and budget control.
• Highways, Railroads, Harbours, Plant areas for mine industry. 3 underground military project.
• Reporting to client and line manager.
Petrochemical & Infrastructure building:
• YLNG Site Preparation, plant area, harbour and airstrip.
• Stora-Enso Paper Factory Site Preparation, plant area, railroads, roads, store areas to sea.
• Botnia Paper Factory Site Preparation, plant area, railroads, roads, store areas to sea.
• Rautaruukki Steel Factory Site Preparation plant area, roads, store areas.
• Outokumpu Stainless Steel Factory Site Preparation plant area, railroads, roads, store areas, dams.
• Reporting to client and company stockholders.
Key Projects:
• Successfully managed the project of drilling and blasting Talvivaara nickel mine roads and railroads at value of €250M.
• Instrumental in establishing YLNG site valued at $99M.
• Played a key role in Polar Rock projects with a value of €12.5M/year.
• Successfully built the Oulu Highway E4 for Finnish Roads (government), at a total value of €63M.
• Efficiently managed the Tapojärvi project in Botnia plant preparation with over 100 contractors and total value of €93M.
Seppo Matias Viio | Phone: + (358) 400 581 191 | Email: seppoviio@yahoo.com
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