Veolia Water Tech aims to bolster graduates’ skills

Veolia Water Technologies, a global leader in water and waste-water treatments, took part in the King Fahd University of Petroleum and Minerals (KFUPM) job fair.
The event seeks to open up opportunities for the employment of Saudi youth.
Badr Ghawji, managing director of Veolia Water Technologies, said: “The goals of this job fair at KFUPM include offering job opportunities for university graduates and providing training opportunities for university students in the cooperative program and summer training.”
Ghawji said: “We further aim to provide an opportunity to interview graduates, educate students for the future careers of the various disciplines in our organization, provide an opportunity to familiarize students with our activities and to help them understand the strong contribution we have made to create a healthy environment in Saudi Arabia by providing the most efficient and economical water solutions in the past years.”
He underscored that their company is eager to employ Saudi people and to provide them with all the needed training along with the resources to contribute to building a strong national work force.
Indeed, water scarcity is a stark issue as freshwater makes up a very small fraction of the available water in the Kingdom and the sustainable availability of potable water is a major concern in the region, which is mostly surrounded by saline sea water, or which the Kingdom is working to improvise and develop a desalination method of water for potability in the future.
Veolia is a global leader in optimized resource management.
With over 200,000 employees worldwide, the company designs and provides water, waste and energy management solutions that contribute to the sustainable development of communities and industries.
Through its three complementary business activities, Veolia helps to develop access to resources, preserve available resources, and to replenish them.
In 2013, Veolia supplied 94 million people with drinking water and 62 million people with wastewater services, produced 86 million megawatt hours of energy and converted 38 million metric tons of waste into new materials and energy.