Sini Kotola, Integration Management Office Manager

I joined Konecranes in 2012 and I currently work in the Integration Management Office.

Konecranes is a great company. Although we are a global company with plenty of international opportunities, we are still a Finnish company that is well affiliated with its domicile of Hyvinkää. I have loved working for Konecranes, because I have been able to impact so many things and work with some really lovely and very clever people, which is very important for me. I feel it is important for me to be in a situation, where I can learn from others and perhaps also share my own knowledge I have attained over the years.

It is important to be social in my job and to talk with as many different people as possible in order to be able to also receive unofficial information. Naturally, we report figures and monitor project progression, but we also need to understand how people really think and how our corporate integration progresses. Therefore, it is good to receive information from different sources, also directly from the employees.

What Finnish industrial companies need is different people. We need a lot of this well-known diversity. Approximately 80% of our employees are male and 20% female. I really hope that in the future we could mix people up so that we could have more women working in the different business areas and international people with different backgrounds, because this is really a very good thing for the company.