Cebu City, Cebu – Fortune 500 company, Fluor Corp., a US-based construction and management firm, which opened an office in Cebu recently, is targeting to hire some 150 engineering graduates by the end of this year, as it hopes to grow its pool of employees to 300 by 2012.
“We will be aggressive in our presence in Cebu, as we have successfully done in Manila,” said Peter Oosterveer, group president of Fluor’s Energy and Chemicals Group. “In the next few months, we will be hiring more engineers.”
The company launched its engineering and design facility in Cebu at the TGU Tower, at the Asiatown IT Park. Said facility is the second office opened by the firm in the Philippines – their Alabang quarters currently employs a sizeable workforce-and its fourth in Southeast Asia.
Oosteveer said that because Fluor is a knowledge-based outsourcing firm, I will need the expertise of local engineering graduates from industrial, chemical, and mechanical to do “highly complicated technical work” from engineering design, procurement, and construction management services, among others.
He expressed optimism that the company would be able to find a ready pool of engineers in Cebu, saying that Fluor’s reason for choosing the Philippines as one of its growth areas in Asia is due largely to the country’s good relationship with US-based companies, as well as the Filipino work ethic, flexibility and quality of skill.
“The company’s strong presence for about 25 years in the Philippines is enough testament of our confidence in the country,” Ossterveer said.
According to its website, Fluor Corp. is “a Fortune 500 company that delivers engineering, procurement, construction, maintenance (EPCM), and project management to governments and clients in diverse industries around the world.” It was founded as a construction company in 1912.
It currently employs about 42,000 people worldwide, 15,000 of which are under Fluor’s Energy and Chemicals Group.
The company, which maintains a network of offices in more than 25 countries across six continents, supplies services to all types of facilities including refineries, petrochemicals, EPSO floating production units, pharmaceuticals, manufacturing, microelectronics, and mining operations, among others.
The company’s clients are in such sectors as oil and gas, chemicals and petrochemicals, commercial and institutional, government services, life sciences, manufacturing, microelectronics, mining, power, telecommunications and infrastructure.

Source: Manila Bulletin - October 9, 2011