1. Cover Letter Seppo Matias Viio
Seppo Matias Viio
Address: 33 Pälsyntie, 90900 Kiiminki, Finland
Phone: + (358) 400 581 191 | Email: seppoviio@yahoo.com
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KEY AREAS:
· Infrastructure Projects including Roads & Tunnels, Canals, Airports, Bridges, Underpasses, Buildings and Offshore Marine
Works.
· 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.
· International Highways, Railroads, Tunnels.
· 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, Harbours’, Coast Line Protection, Breaker
Waves, Dams, Islands, Plant Areas, Off-, and Onshore Marine Works, Canals.
· Pipelines; Oil, Gas, IT, Lightning, Water, Waste Water, Sewage’s and Drains.
· Open- and Underground Mining; Mines, Drilling and Blasting, Tunnels, Vibration
· Oil and Gas-, LNG-, Steel-, Paper and Power- Industry Site Preparation and Plant Area Building Internal Works.
Tank Farms; Up- and Down building.
KEY SKILLS:
· 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) - Wide range of engineering experience.
· Immediately understanding of Drawings and Sites - Self-starter with ability to trouble shoot and solve technical problems.
Enthusiastic, proactive and flexible approach, to work.
EDUCATION / TRAINING:
· Bachelor Degree 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.
· Certification to approve personal skill tests, Lappia Vocational School Tornio, Finland 2010.
Seppo Matias Viio | Phone: + (358) 400 581 191 | Email: seppoviio@yahoo.com
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· Personal 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+.
· Reporting to client and line manager.
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,
Plant Areas.
· 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.
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.
Seppo Matias Viio | Phone: + (358) 400 581 191 | Email: seppoviio@yahoo.com
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· 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.
Plant area & 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 project) with over 100 contractors and total value of
€93M, and successfully attained revenue of € 11M/year.
Seppo Matias Viio | Phone: + (358) 400 581 191 | Email: seppoviio@yahoo.com
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