Meet our summer trainees 2024
We are pleased to introduce our energetic summer trainees of 2024. Roope, Jesse and Einar work in different departments at Auramarine. These bright young talents were kind to tell about their work experiences at Auramarine and overall. Read here more about our 2024 summer trainees.
Roope Ristimäki – logistics coordinator trainee
Roope Ristimäki works at Auramarine as a logistics coordinator trainee during summer 2024
Tell us briefly about yourself
“I am Roope, 22-year-old second year student from Turku. I study in Turku University of Applied Sciences and I am majoring business operations management. I have a lot of friends in exchange students and thus international activities. On my free time I play with my dog and go jogging. Right now, I follow intensively football from TV.”
What brought you to work at Auramarine this summer?
“Auramarine’s summer job announcement catched my eye from Duunitori. Company’s reputation was good and the possibility to get my internship done attracted me to apply. My own target was to find a summer job related to my future profession and reached it here at Auramarine. The application process itself was nice. I sent a cover letter and a resume added with short video, which was a bit out of my comfort zone. Later I received nice feedback about the video and interview was a pleasant experience overall.”
What is your role in Auramarine?
“I am logistics coordinator trainee. The job consists of handling the delivery documentation and replying to customers’ emails and questions. Ie. logistics customer service. Customers’ questions are mainly related to updates concerning delivery statuses and export documentation.”
What is the main learning so far concerning the work you are doing?
“After a few weeks I learnt to use ERP more systematically and now I know where to find materials and answers. Most things go on autopilot already. Before I started, I was a bit worried about how I could manage to work 8 hours a day sitting at a computer. I had used to more physical work in production before. Luckily there’s so many different things ongoing every day that good flow stays even at your computer.”
What is the best experience concerning the work so far?
“Last week we discussed already about the possible continuation of my employment in autumn. I have had a great opportunity to work remotely even as an intern. This I have not experienced before.”
Which Auramarine value resonates most with you and please elaborate a bit
“From a personal point of view, I would say innovativeness. From a work point of view, I would like to raise caring & courage as it is vital for customer relationship management. Caring & courage also internally – logistics team is great.”
Is there anything you would like to share for next year summer trainees?
“In the application process, creating a video from yourself might seem challenging task, but don’t leave the application process because of it! Working environment is nice at Auramarine and people at the office are working with smile.”
Jesse Leino – engineer trainee
Jesse Leino works at Auramarine as engineer trainee during summer 2024
Tell us briefly about yourself
“I am Jesse, 21-year-old student in mechanical engineering specializing in marine technology. I come from Masku and have been living in Turku for two years while studying my second year at Turku University of Applied Sciences. During my free time, I play online chess and hang out with my friends. In winter, my hobby is downhill skiing.”
What brought you to work at Auramarine this summer?
“I wanted to find a summer job in marine technology as I am really interested in big ships. Auramarine seemed like a natural choice for a summer job. Auramarine is an ambitious company, forerunner in its field, and it offers me the opportunity to work with new things. How I ended up working at Auramarine – I was lucky to be contacted by the company through LinkedIn, and then the Auramarine team invited me to a job interview. The application process itself was a pleasant experience.”
What is your role in Auramarine?
“I work as an engineer trainee. I am working for PDM (product data management) update and helping engineers with their daily tasks. PDM is a system that centralizes product-related data and processes.”
What is the main learning so far concerning the work you are doing?
“I’ve learnt to use several new programs and platforms. I’ve learnt to work with 3D models and gained a lot of knowledge about Auramarine’s products overall.”
What is the best experience concerning the work so far?
“It has been nice to notice that you can ask for help from anyone, and everyone is happy to help.”
Which Auramarine value resonates most with you and please elaborate a bit
“I would highlight innovativeness as the most important value because technology is constantly evolving, especially alongside green technology. Right now, the development in the marine industry is rapid, and it is fascinating to be part of it.”
Is there anything you would like to share for next year summer trainees?
“If you come to work in engineering, don’t hesitate to ask for help. Try to identify those people who know the subject in question and can help you. With this you’ll succeed.”
Einar Olson – R&D trainee
Einar Olson works at Auramarine as R&D trainee during summer 2024
Tell us briefly about yourself
“I am Einar, I study my fifth and last year at Chemical Engineering at Åbo Akademi University and I am majoring in Process- and Systems Engineering. Just to elaborate a bit of my subject I could say as an example that if you are working on a bakery and you bake a cake – you can either focus on putting your efforts on finding the best raw materials or you can focus on trying to find most efficient tools & equipment for baking. I focus on optimizing the baking process. That’s what I do in my degree. In my free time I go windsurfing, play football and floorball during the summer. Later in August I’ll be cycling to Lithuania, where I’ll be taking part in a summer school in Klaipeda to explore the environment and take tests from the Baltic Sea. This project is part of the Baltic University Program.”
What brought you to work at Auramarine this summer?
“My professor knew people from Auramarine. He got the information from Auramarine that they were starting a project for which they were searching for trainees. Luckily, I was looking for a summer job at the same time and got to know about this opportunity through my professor. For the application process, we visited Auramarine office with my professor, I got a positive impression from the visit about the company and Auramarine seemed like a nice place to work.”
What is your role in Auramarine?
“I’ve participated in R&D projects and helped R&D team in their daily tasks. I started in the beginning of June.”
What is the main learning so far concerning the work you are doing?
“My native language is Swedish and one goal for this summer job was to improve my Finnish language skills. And I’ve already learned a lot. I’ve also learnt a lot about mathematical modelling. It has been nice to learn some new points of view from physicists in addition to chemistry and chemical engineering.”
What is the best experience concerning the work so far?
“I’ve really enjoyed seeing how the first methanol systems were built here.”
Which Auramarine value resonates most with you and please elaborate a bit
“Caring & courage – I think caring for people is most vital as if you don’t care for people, you don’t get good products either. I’ve felt very welcomed here at Auramarine, which is part of the value of caring. And then you need to be courageous also. For me it has been to develop my Finnish language skills.”
Is there anything you would like to share for next year summer trainees?
“Be curious and courageous and apply for the job!”
Would you like to work with us? Take a closer look at our job opportunities here: https://www.auramarine.com/company/people-careers/
We look forward to hear more from you!
