ISLAMABAD: Work experience with Chinese companies in Pakistan empowers the local engineering professionals to get better employment opportunities overseas, either with Chinese or other companies. Pakistani engineers not only have an opportunity to learn advance engineering technologies; but also have a chance of global exposure due to the worldwide presence of Chinese firms.
Media talked to a few such Pakistani professionals now working in Saudi Arabia after getting experience with the Chinese companies in Pakistan. Kashif Waheed, a Geotechnical Engineer with China State Construction Engineering Corp. at Mountain Running Tunnel Project, Neom, worked with China Ghezouba Group and Power China at the Balakot and Jabori Hydropower projects in KP province.
Eng. Zeenat Ullah worked with the China Railway Construction Corp. (CRCC) as Business Development Engineer in Pakistan. Later, he switched to government sector in 2018. In 2022, he shifted to Saudi Arabia and was again employed by CRCC as Tunnel Engineer at NEOM. “Now I work for the NEOM client, but I am ready to switch to CRCC whenever there is an opportunity due to rich company culture and huge opportunities of professional development in Chinese firms”, Eng. Zeenat told media. Zeenat said that the tunnel engineers who worked with Chinese firms on hydropower projects in Pakistan availed exceptional opportunities with the Chinese companies operating in NEOM. Waqar Mehmood, who did B.S. Electronics from Islamia College University, Peshawar told media that how a little exposure to China played a huge role in achieving his career goals.
Waqar said that his batchmates who got a chance to work with Chinese companies are also working at prestigious positions with Chinese or other companies. Several of our other batch fellows are also studying or working in China, he said. –Agencies
