A profession that is challenging and instructive, with great freedom

Interest in the technology has been there since childhood. After completed education Matts Lindqvist chose purposefully hydraulics industry. Today he is one of the industry’s most experienced and has been working for a year at HydX in Stockholm. He describes a living that suits all who like a challenge, variety, freedom, team spirit – and to constantly learn new things.

– I started early with hydraulics at the age of twelve, as the sidekick in my father’s company, says Matts Lindqvist. We serviced equipment such as mobile cranes, trucks and loaders. Then there was the Army Technical School during military service, and after that a two-year mechanical engineering course specializing in hydraulics.

Matts is technology and system manager at HydX where he designs solutions for hydraulic applications. Customers are manufacturers of powerful machines used in forest and land, at sea, in ports and in industry. This can include wheel loaders, machines on ships, cargo cranes, trucks or industrial robots.

– Hydraulics can be perceived as dry and boring, but that’s not true at all. Modern hydraulics is very complex and often should the machines perform advanced operations and functions – under extremely challenging conditions. It interacts with a variety of disciplines such as mechanics, electronics, hydraulics and software. The quality is high and reliability is critical to our customers’ everyday lives.

Matts Lindqvist work in teams with the customer’s clients and technicians and fitters at HydX. The group discusses solutions that lead from Matts’ proposal, quotation and design all the way to assembly and testing. Matts works with the design of both technology and control systems and the job involves working with a variety of people – not least in the field.

– It is extremely important to know the customer’s customer, says Matts Lindqvist. To go out in the workplace and meet the people who will use the solutions we build. There you will see the challenges it involves, in rain, snow, mud and salt water. You will also get a deeper picture of what the machine operator needs to be able to do. Moreover, it is fun!

– Incorporating many people in work is both positive and instructive, says Matts Lindqvist. The more we discuss with various parties, the more experience will come to the surface and can be utilized. If we have an open dialogue, we present arguments both for and against various options. Being able to communicate is a great property so that you really get out all the details that are not visible at first glance. If you have the right background when you come to us, the willingness to cooperate and to learn new things weighs as heavy as extensive experience.

HydX is a small, efficient organization. This helps the employees to have a good overview of the business, you know everyone and the atmosphere is familiar. At the same time this makes the work vary because you often have to switch quickly between different solutions to problems, often in multiple projects in parallel. Despite the high tempo, the working environment is calm and pleasant.

– It has to do with that we all feel so good, says Matts Lindqvist. And we have an eye on what we do. If you like the eventful days, this is a perfect job. For us it is also a force to be able to offer our customers an overall perspective, not just work at the micro level, but to understand the whole picture. With the movement comes much freedom with the ability to control their own working day.