I consider Haskoning a wonderful company that provides almost unlimited learning opportunities and enormous space to develop myself and to build my career path.
After his graduation, Aleksandr started working for one of the most prominent design organisations in Russia's maritime sector. “During my time there, I was involved in over 25 maritime projects. Due to international collaboration within some of them, I had an opportunity to be in contact with lots of organisations beyond my country, for example, with contractors and clients from the Netherlands, Germany, Norway, Turkey and Japan. After working there for around three years, being involved in concepts and design documentation for all kinds of seaports and marine terminals, mostly within Russian territory, I felt it was time for a change. So that’s when I started looking for new worldwide opportunities.”
“I already knew about Haskoning as it was an international consultant for one of the projects I participated in. So when I started to search for new job opportunities, I contacted one of the their employees (who represented the company in that project) via LinkedIn, and after a few online interviews with the team manager and some of the team members, I got an offer, and I decided to take it and move to the Netherlands.”
“The first few weeks in the Netherlands were, as expected, quite hectic. Not only did I have to start my new job, but I also faced the struggle of the apartment search, which appeared to be quite a severe challenge, I would say. However, after the first onboarding week, I was immediately involved in a big project, which is still ongoing. In addition to this project, within the first month, I also helped my colleagues from port planning and maritime consultancy with some tasks on several different studies, which was a great way to meet my colleagues and learn more about the types of projects we work on.”
The bigger project I am involved in is CO2 offloading terminal for an energy-producing company that wants to contribute to the environment by installing a facility that will capture CO2 emissions. Afterwards, CO2 is expected to be liquified and shipped via waterways from the power plant to another facility for storage and utilisation. I am responsible for port planning and navigational studies. This means that I choose the location for the potential CO2 offloading terminal, calculate its capacity (to determine how many quays and what equipment is required), investigate the bottlenecks in the navigational road, determine how many vessels will be needed and much more. In addition to fascinating feasibility study, in this project we had a lot of meetings and workshops with shipping companies, equipment manufacturers and teams within our organisation regarding, for example, vessel concepts, handling equipment and pipeline design, safety and environmental issues. A massive and comprehensive study, which I am grateful for being part of."
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