Meet our summer workers - Angelica
Thinking in new ways is one of the cornerstones of success at Billerud. During the summer, we employ about 400 holiday replacement staff. This provides a wide variety of new ideas and perspectives. Meet Angelica from Karlsborg, who worked as a lab technician at our northernmost mill.
Angelica Sroka studied engineering in Technical Design and worked as a temporary member of staff at Billerud's production unit in Karlsborg. She worked in the lab, where she measured and monitored the results of test samples from production.
Hello Angelica! So, why did you apply for a summer job at Billerud?
"During the spring I did a project at the Luleå University of Technology. The project was here at Billerud, and we conducted a risk analysis of the maintenance work, in order to draw up proposed improvement measures. That’s how I got in touch with the company, and it resulted in me working here this summer. It is great for me, as a production engineering student, to be able to get an insight into how production works in reality, as this provides a lot of interesting information about a possible future career."
What are you working with here?
"I am working as a laboratory technician at the process/environment lab."
Could you tell us about a typical day at work?
"In production there is a wide range of various meters, which continuously take automatic samples to measure the production process. But it has to be checked whether the meters are really measuring correctly, which is where me and my colleagues come in. We check the meters every day and compare the test results of the meters with our own manual samples, to check that the results match each other. The test samples are made either in the lab or using our own meters, which are used at the sampling location."
What do you do when you are not working here?
"I am currently studying for a Master of Science in Technical Design, with a focus on production design, and will begin my final year after the summer. The course teaches students how to make production processes more efficient and how to give the staff an as good a working environment as possible in terms of ergonomics and safety"