Attractive Møre Trafo – 30 New Employees

Skilled people

“We are very pleased to have brought in so many new and skilled people in a process where there has at times been tough competition for labor,” says current CEO Leif Leira, who hands over the helm to Runar Tandstad in April.

What they look for

With low sick leave and a high happiness factor, Møre Trafo stands out as a very attractive workplace and matches the key attractiveness criteria very well: good working environment, good terms, and a secure job. According to an employment survey by FINN, these three things top the list of what job seekers look for first and foremost.

Flexible Employer

Another survey carried out by Universum shows that a flexible employer is an attractive employer. Here too, Møre Trafo can point to good arrangements.

“All office staff can work from home and use this as needed, but to maintain the broadest possible professional environment at the factory in Sykkylven, most of them mainly work from the head office. In the Sales department we have three permanent home office employees,” says Sales and Marketing Manager at Møre Trafo, Ivar Lifjeld.

Factory Manager Steinulf Grøvik, who has HR responsibility for many of the employees, says they also facilitate flexible work arrangements in production, and he believes that this, together with good terms and opportunities for involvement, helps create motivated employees and a very good working environment.

Overlap Shifts for Smooth Handover

“When we bring in new employees, we arrange overlap in several positions so new hires get off to a good start. Others join with experience from other roles and have the competence to work independently from day one. We work continuously on how we include new colleagues to become even more attractive in recruitment,” says CEO Leif Leira.

Møre Trafo has, among other things, made it possible for Møre Trafo’s new Product and Design Manager, Kyrre Søholt, to complete his master’s thesis and get a smoother transition by having former Product Manager, Kårstein Longva, continue working two days a week.

New Leaders

Møre Trafo’s new CEO Runar Tandstad starts in April. He has local roots and lives in Sykkylven. Tandstad joins from his role as head of the Grid Management Division at Møre Nett, and brings strong leadership experience and valuable industry expertise.

Also new to Møre Trafo is ICT Manager/CTO Trond Bonesmo, who is also from Sykkylven. Trond has 22 years of experience in the IT industry and joins from the position of Senior ICT Project Manager & Solution Architect at Ekornes.

In March, Svein Ole Løken starts in a newly created role as ICT Project Manager. He joins from a position as operations consultant in PC support and has many years of experience as an IT administrator in several companies.

In April, Christoffer Westlie takes over the role as Product and Design Manager Substation. He comes from a position as Project Engineer at Mørenett and has several years of experience from the customer side.

Sustainability

– An important focus for us going forward is to bring some of the UN Sustainable Development Goals into the company and set measurable targets for them. We work with a clear plan and clear goals for how we can implement sustainability in our operations. It’s about documenting the good actions we already take in this area, says Sales and Marketing Manager Ivar Lifjeld

Sustainability is becoming an increasingly important topic in framework agreements and in connection with tender processes.

Environmentally Friendly

– Møre Trafo has always run the business in an environmentally friendly way. We were early members of RENAS, certified as an Eco-Lighthouse company and by Grønt Punkt. We are now in the final phase of ISO 9001 & 14001 certification. This lets us further document our deliberate focus on quality and the environment. Here, we have hired Araceli Gutierrez Olivares to help drive this work. She brings experience from large international companies with similar responsibilities and gives us valuable expertise in this effort, says Lifjeld.