In Oulu, a city on the Gulf of Bothnia some 600 kilometres north of Helsinki, the Finnish industrial electricity distribution company Aurora Infrastructure Oy has launched a vast infrastructure project. Two VINCI Energies business units, Eitech Special Projects and Omexom Finland Substation Projects, are responsible for supplying and installing the entire electrical distribution system for the project, which is scheduled for completion in 2025.

Arto Ellilä is in the forefront of this project and particularly proud of this assignment. “It’s an enormous project, which includes a large number of working hours and various electrical components.” he explains. “Around a hundred people are working on this project,” says Arto Ellilä. “It’s a fantastic experience – definitely a challenge to get everyone working together, but so absorbing for a manager.”

Working on this type of major project allows Arto Ellilä to reconcile his work with his ecological convictions. The 44-year-old manager consistently encourages his customers to question the environmental impact of their business: “It was hard going in the beginning, but awareness has really increased over the last two or three years”.