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Scania Top Team: A Swedish trainer in Hong Kong

Erica Zandelin — Fri, 26 Aug 2011 07:39:02 +0000

After working more than 15 years at Atteviks’ Scania workshop in the Swedish city of Jönköping, Tommy Hallberg was looking for a new challenge. He jumped at the chance to work in Hong Kong, where he is presently providing support for service technicians.

“I felt it was time to move on, so I applied for the job,” he says. “Now I have a six-month contract that I hope will be extended.”

Hallberg was a member of the winning Swedish Top Team contestants. Having eliminated the Swedish competition, his team had high hopes – but the dream ended in May at the European final in Brussels.

“At first I was really disappointed,” says Hallberg, “but after speaking with the winning British team, I fully understood why they won. Their team had invested countless hours in training and had received great support; it might be compared to a match between a Premier League club and a League 2 team. But it was our first entry, and we walked away with a rich experience.”

Now Hallberg is taking on a different challenge in Hong Kong, which is a growing market for Scania. His main piece of advice for the local service technicians is to study diagnostics programmes and manuals closer before reaching for tools. “The service technicians are skilled and well-organised, but occasionally slightly too eager to start disassembling components before having analysed what causes the fault. Trucks these days are far more complicated than the 3-series, and it is necessary to ponder a while.”

Hallberg feels fully at home in the former British colony and has mastered the art of using chopsticks. “My teenage daughters will be visiting during the autumn school holidays, and if the assignment is extended my wife will join me in January.”

A world of opportunities

Scania Social Media Newsroom — Mon, 08 Dec 2008 19:49:30 +0000

Imagine.
That a world of opportunities opens in front of you.
What would be your first step?

No matter what special competence you have, Scania offers a broad range of possible careers.

Students and graduates in Sweden can apply for an internship during the summer, Scania’s top class trainee-programme or a one-year education for development engineers.

But there are more ways to get your Scania-career started.
Look at the movie and get inspired > (in Swedish)

Click here to view the embedded video.

Scania students prepare for the future

Scania Social Media Newsroom — Mon, 24 Nov 2008 10:57:21 +0000

Friendships, good teachers, great challenges and guaranteed employment afterwards are things that are mentioned when today’s students at Scania Industrial Senior High School describe their school.

See it for yourself in the movie (in Swedish only).
Click here to view the embedded video.
Each year, 48 students begin training at Scania’s own school. Over three years, theoretical subjects are combined with practical work in the workshop. The school’s profile is directed towards production with an emphasis on cutting processing.

The students are employed within Scania from the first day. Many choose to go further to a position within the company after completing the education while others choose to continue their studies at a college or university.