Personnel

Hot tub manufacturer Kirami has boldly hired people of different ages. Read the blog to find out what Pirjo and Matti think of their job and what they bring to the work community.

French export and a positive example. Julien Chaigneau daily duties are: the writing of the brochure, marketing, overviewing contracts, customer service, and support to the retailers.

Taina’s many duties include export sales and other related tasks, as well as planning and implementing export marketing measures. Taina does not see many ordinary days. Her day always starts with reading the e-mail, after which she takes care of issues in their order of urgency. After this, she sees what the day will bring. Usually it involves processing orders and monitoring them in production, and planning and organising transport. She is also in contact with the customers concerning the above issues.

Miro’s duties mainly include managing exports, making orders for retailers, image processing and using his IT expertise. Miro’s main export countries are Sweden, Austria and the British Isles. He is in constant contact with the retailers in these countries by e-mail and telephone. Roughly once a year, retailers visit the factory in person.

Antti Eskola started working for Kirami for the first time in 2007 via a company providing temporary personnel. At that time, he did a summer job where he made wooden tubs. The next summer he came back for another summer job in our company. Through his education, Antti ended up working in sales in 2011. He has been using his skills to manage the sales in Northern and Southern Finland ever since.

Arja Saarikoski is linguistically talented – she knows Finnish, Russian, German, Swedish and English. Arja’s duties include everything related to exports.

Kalle Pakkala, has worked as a seller for 20 years, ten meritorious years out of which he has worked at Kirami. He is responsible for the domestic sales in our company. Read more!

Pirjo Ojala ended up working at Kirami via Mika, who knew that Pirjo was already retired, but that she was also a lively and hard-working employee with much to give. Pirjo grabbed the chance immediately. Pirjolla on laaja työnkuva, hän toimii tehokkaasti siellä missä on tarvetta. Hänen pääasiallisiin työtehtäviin sisältyy henkilöstön tyytyväisenä pitäminen, kahvitukset yritykseen tullessa vieraita, puhtaudesta ja siisteydestä huolehtiminen ja joidenkin pihatöiden tekeminen.

Ritva Välläri came to do practical training at Kirami in the spring of 2014. She was participating in a job seeking course in the Tampere Adult Education Centre at the time, and she was looking for a work experience placement. Read more!

Eero Rantanen, was already involved in Kirami’s activities when the company was just starting up. He has been a partner in Kirami since 2003, and he was already working hard for the company in its early days in addition to his then day job. In the evenings and weekends, when Eero was not working as a software developer and project manager, he was making Kirami’s first website, among other things. Soon after he started working full time for the company.