The Hong Kong operations of global engineering firm Arup have considerably expanded during the past year, with new projects underway. The headcount has grown to 1,800 staff in the city, and the company is still recruiting, with openings for both design and site engineers, as well as for graduate trainees.
Arup is looking for design engineers in the structural, mechanical, electrical, plumbing and environmental disciplines. It is also hiring project managers and marine engineers. Company sites require engineering professionals in supervisory roles - from resident works supervisors to senior resident and chief engineers.
Arup urgently needs design engineers with four to eight years' work experience. Catherine Tsui, director of human resources at Arup East Asia, hopes to hire 50 to 60 design engineers in the coming year.
Project managers are also in urgent demand. 'They should have either an engineering background or surveying, construction management or project programming skills. We need people with about five years' experience,' Tsui says.
She also expects to have more than 100 positions to fill in the coming year for site supervisory roles. All are middle-management and the emphasis is on filling positions at major sites, including the Hong Kong Link Road connecting the Hong Kong-Zhuhai-Macau Bridge with the Hong Kong Boundary Crossing Facilities.
Arup is also still recruiting for stage two of the Harbour Area Treatment Scheme, which already has more than 200 on-site staff.