Thomas Björklund

Experience

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  Sunds Defibrator (currently Valmet)

  Nov 1989 - Jan 1998

  Responsible for markets in South Africa, China, Australia/New Zealand and a joint responisbility for the South American market. A very stimulating assignment with lots of learning, both cultures and interpersonal skills. A lot of travel during this period finally made me want to do something else. Designing process solutions for chemical pulp mills, drawing mill layouts, pre-engineering of new plants and modifications to old plants. Dimensioning of process equipment and development of CAD-tools and systems.Worked in close co-operation with the market department to produce sales material for use world-wide.

  • Area Sales Manager

    Feb 1993 - Jan 1998

  • Process Designer

    Nov 1989 - Feb 1993
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  IFS

  Sept 1998 - Jun 1999

  Area Sales Manager

  Worked as sales manager for Sweden north of Stockholm. Main contacts in the industry sector requiring applications from economy, production an maintenance including CAD-drawing systems.

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  Pacwire AB

  Aug 1999 - Nov 1999

  Area Sales Manager

  The company produces metal wire mainly for baling pulp att pulp industries. Responsible for sales in the Far East. Quit this job due to personal reasons.

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  Jaakko Poyry Consulting

  Oct 2000 - Mar 2001

  Project Engineer

  Worked mainly as a resource in the market department of Valmet Fibertech (currently Valmet Paper).

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  Korsnäs AB

  Apr 2001 - Feb 2013

  Head of the maintenance organisation for the woodhandling and fiberlines plus chemical recovery, water treatment and power plant of our mill. Member of the Pulp Mill management team. Working mainly with improving work methods, improving planning and execution of planned shut downs together with the daily and long-term management tasks. Implemented work patterns to support our long-term strategy for improved maintenance. This includes implementation of a new web-based system for asset management and purchasing and a strong focus in preventive maintenance. Show less Integration projects with Korsnäs Frövi mill. Focusing on production, maintenance together with finding and capitalizing on best practices. Projects targeted board machine operation where tail threading and getting into quality after web breaks were in focus. We we able to improve production (OEE) with more than 2 percent unit per machine, PM4 and PM5.I also headed a project aimed at improving maintenance work patterns, focusing on planned shutdowns. The project established standards still used in the company. The results from these projects led to my next assignment as Maintenance Mgr for the fiber production part of the pulp mill. Show less

  • Maintenance Manager Pulp Mill

    Mar 2008 - Feb 2013

  • Major Projects Manager

    Jul 2006 - Mar 2008

  • Process Manager and Deputy Production Manager

    Dec 2003 - Jun 2006

  • Projects Manager

    Oct 2002 - Nov 2003

  • Graduate Trainee

    Apr 2001 - Oct 2002
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  BillerudKorsnäs AB

  Feb 2013 - Mar 2016

  We reorganized our maintenance organisaton to better support different types of work orders. One group handles all the corrective maintenance and other groups handle the planned maintenance (PM) as well as projects.My group takes care of all PM for the entire mill. For that purpose we have one mechanical department , one automation department and one department focusing entirely on condition monitoring both for mechanical and automation equipment. There is also a group of availability engineers focusing on root cause analysis and the preventive maintenance program etc. In total we are 82 persons.We came to this solution after a few years struggling to come to terms with interrupted week schedules leading to TOO MUCH CORRECTIVE maintenance and TOO LITTLE of the more important PREVENTIVE maintenance. Show less Responsible for maintenance in the Board Mill of the Gävle production facility comprising two liquid packaging board machines i.e. PM4 and PM5 and one drying machine, TM6. Maintenance also includes roll handling and wrapping of the finished products. Member of the Board Mill management team. Totally around 60 employees divided in mechanical, automation and production service personnel. Our aim is to always provide for a high technical availability by using high quality maintenance together with cost-effective methods.Working on improving work preparation and planning together with strengthening our focus on preventive maintenance. The latter by increasing PM manhours, using more objective measuring instruments and changing the way we plan and perform our round strategies.Parallel to this, I also headed the PM part of the TPM initiative in the mill. Show less

  • Maintenance Manager, Planned/Preventive Maintenance

    May 2014 - Mar 2016

  • Maintenance Manager Board Mill

    Feb 2013 - May 2014
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  BillerudKorsnäs

  Apr 2016 - Sept 2019

  The two Realibility Groups in the mill, one in the Pulp Mill and one in the Board Mill, were formed to improve the total availability of the production and to lower the increasing cost of maintenance. Also to act as a link between production and centralized maintenance.I am responsible for the Board Mill reliability. The role includes budgeting and follow-up of fixed maintenance costs, investment planning and the long term maintenance plan (typically named 5 year plan). The group consists of two technicians, a reliability engineer and myself. So, a small focused team. The role also includes being Deputy Manager of the Board Mill and being member of the Board Mill management team. The group managed to take costs back to budgeted levels after high costs the first half of 2016. This was done in close cooperation with the production managers and technicians and the tools have been mainly better prioritizing and better scheduling and hence less external resources. Show less

  • AM Site Pillar Leader/Reliability Manager

    Apr 2017 - Sept 2019

  • Reliability Manager, Board Mill

    Apr 2016 - Sept 2019
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  Metsä Board

  Sept 2019 - Jun 2020

  Production Manager, BM1 Line

  Production Manager on BM1-line, consisting of a board machine, an off-line coating machine CM1 and an off-line continuous winder RM9. The line produced folding box board at a rate of 360 000 tpa.

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  Stora Enso

  Aug 2020 - now

  Responsible for maintenance of four drying machines including packing and wrapping lines. Together with my partner in production we deliver improved reliability which strengthens our ability to fulfil customer demand, on time in full.

  • Underhållschef

    Feb 2023 - now

  • Maintenance Manager, Drying Machines

    Aug 2020 - Feb 2023