RE: Breaking Middle East news18 Dec 2024 13:21
Wood has expanded its Middle East workforce by 500 employees in less than a year, with a 25% headcount increase in UAE alone. To support continued growth, the company is also currently recruiting for another 130 roles across the region.
Wood has been working purposefully to improve skills and training locally, and in early 2025 will be opening a vocational training centre in Basra, Iraq, with joint venture partner, Al Majal. This will support continued development of early career talent in the region, while in the UAE, Iraq and Saudi Arabia, Wood has created structured, multidiscipline graduate engineering programmes to provide both on-the-job and classroom-based training for local people, with 87 new graduates having joined the company in 2024.