Innovative Snijders sets an example for businesses in Zeeland

the province Zeeland is currently facing a challenge. There is a big shortage of employees in different work areas. The municipality Hulst has joined forces with different businesses to address this challenge.

From this a collaboration has emerged with Valencia (Spain) where the unemployment is still very high. The collaboration between Valencia and Hulst is focused on sharing each others knowledge and experience regarding the job market. International Job Challenge has brought both municipalities together.

On tuesday August 27th a delegation of businesses from Zeeland and the municipality of Hulst have visited the office in Valencia. During this meeting director Curro Verhagen explained why the choice was made to open a location in Valencia and how Snijders Group has made this happen. There also has been spoken about possibilities to increase the co-operation in the future. The organisation Tragel is going to use this collaboration by recruiting nurses in Valencia through International Job Challange. Tragel considers their new colleagues from Valencia as the new residents of the municipality Hulst.

The meeting has also been valuable for Snijders Engineering Group in making contact with the local governements and in making an appointment for a further acquantance with 17 municipalities and businesses. These contacts are important for Snijders Engineering Group to intensify the contact with the local governement and to reinforce the connection with Valencia.

Snijders takes a chance with Engineers in Spain

The substantial expansion of Snijders Ingenieursgroep has not been unnoticed. Peter Scholtes from the local newspaper in Eindhoven (Eindhovens Dagblad) has approached Snijders for an interview with director Curro Verhagen. The page wide interview focuses mainly on the development of Snijders in Spain.

Curro Verhagen explains that due to the huge shortage in high quality Structural Engineers in The Netherlands Snijders has taken the step to open an office in Spain. The article also illustrates the activities of Snijders as an important and crucial link in (precast)construction and explains the collaboration with Stabiel Management, Bouwkenners.nl and International Job Challenge.

On behalf of Snijders Ingenieursgroep a big thank you to Peter Scholtes and Eindhovens Dagblad for the interest and the nice article!

Read the article here.

Snijders Valencia is bursting at the seams

Alot has happened since the start of Snijders Engineering Group in Valencia a few months ago, in November 2018 the first Revit Modelers have started working in the beautiful office of Regus Valencia. After an intensive training they have been working on various Snijders Ingenieursgroep projects at full throttle these last few months.

The first expansion didn’t take long because a group of Constructive Engineers joined the team in February 2019. They also went through an intensive training and are very busy with all the challenging Snijders projects at this moment.

The Regus office was getting pretty full so a new location had to be sought quickly because the Tekla Modelers starting in March also needed a desk to work at. This new location announced itself at the Parque Tecnológico Valencia, thé business and technology park in Valencia, in the shape of the Wellness office. After a few adjustments the office has been transformed into an open office landscape, fully furnished with new furniture, the newest equipment and of course a nice canteen.

Subsidiary company International Job Challenge is also housed in the same office and together with the new colleagues that are starting in April makes a total count of 20 employees represented in Valencia. All enthusiastic and talented Engineers who will make the Snijders projects a success together with the colleagues in Veldhoven.

So there has been a massive growth in a few months time in Valencia. The new office gives Snijders Engineering Group the possibility to grow even further in the future. This growth will not take too long because a group of new Revit and Tekla Modelers will join the team very soon!

To all the new colleagues a warm welcome to the Snijders group and the best of luck with this new challenge!

Excellent achievement during ISO 9001 audit

During the annual ISO 9001 audit the managementsystem of Snijders Ingenieursgroep was tested. The accent this audit was put on realizing some points of improvement and the way Snijders Ingenieursgroep has handled market threats.

Snijders Ingenieursgroep received a big compliment from the external auditor of Lloyd’s Register Quality Assurance for realizing the following goals.

  1. The realization of the new housing. Because of this Snijders Ingenieursgroep has good workplaces for the employees and the organisation can continue it’s growth from a sustainable premises.
  2. The opening of the office of Snijders Engineering Group in Valencia. Snijders Ingenieursgroep managed to circumvent the tight labour market conditions in The Netherlands.
  3. The realized automation projects for the departments Tekla and Revit. These projects have lead to a more efficiënt procedures and have reduced the chance of errors.

Snijders Ingenieursgroep received a lot of appreciation for realizing these goals within the period of one year. For all employees in Veldhoven and Valencia an achievement to be proud of!

Snijders Ingenieursgroep will continue working in accordance with the quality of ISO 9001:2015 and will continue to critically evaluate it’s mangementsystem for a positive result of the recertification in 2020.

Snijders Ingenieursgroep wishes everyone a merry Christmas!

The annual Snijders Ingenieursgroep Christmas trip has taken place last week. With a nod to our Spanish colleagues we have walked the Tour las Tapas in ‘s-Hertogenbosch last friday. A 3 course tapas dinner in 3 different restaurants in the city center, with a scouting expedition with puzzles and questions in between courses. A fun and succesful evening!

Snijders Ingenieursgroep looks back at a succesful 2018 in which beautiful projects have been realised, new colleagues have been welcomed, we have moved to a new location in Veldhoven and as icing on the cake the opening of our location in Valencia (Spain) where Snijders Engineering Group has started.

Snijders Ingenieursgroep and Snijders Engineering Group wishes everyone feliz navidad y prospero año nuevo! On to a productive 2019!

39 years Snijders Ingenieursgroep

On the 39th anniversary of Snijders Ingenieursgroep we look back at the past. A past in which Leo Snijders started Snijders Ingenieursgroep from his attic on 01/11/1979. A past with lows, of which the crisis in the construction has been very hard. But mostly a past with many highlights. Highlights that have led to a strong and professional engineeringteam, good customers and partners and a portfolio with beautiful and unique projects after 39 years.

We are also looking at the present. A present in which we are located in a beautiful new location in Veldhoven. Looking at a present in which we also, very symbolically on 01/11/2018, opened a new office in Valencia, Spain, where 5 new and enthousiastic colleagues started working for Snijders Engineering Group. As Revit modelers they are now following a training from our Revit specialist and projectleader Raymond. To all our new colleagues in Valencia: a warm welcome to our team and the best of luck with this new challenge!

And so we are also looking at the future. A future in which Snijders Ingenieursgroep and Snijders Engineering Group want to belong to the best engineering offices in Europe and to make beautiful and unique projects within our core business: engineering and modeling precast concrete constructions.

For this we would like to expand our teams in Veldhoven and Valencia, so check out our vacancies and come join our team!

We are looking for a (senior) structural engineer for our office in Valencia, Spain!

Are you looking for a new challenge or adventure? Check out our new vacancy!

Snijders Ingenieursgroep is going on an adventure in Spain with met Snijders Engineering Group. We are going to conquer the Spanish market with our core business: engineering and modeling precast concrete constructions. To bring this to a success we are looking for a:

(senior) Structural Engineer in Valencia, Spain

Snijders Ingenieursgroep is a leading engineering bureau which is involved with the engineering, calculating and modeling of many big, complex and challenging building constructions within Europe.

At team of 35 colleagues is active for Snijders Ingenieursgroep and all are specialists in the designing and modeling of concrete-, steel- and wooden building constructions.

“Every new project for Snijders Ingenieursgroep is a new challenge!

The more difficult and complex… the more we like a project.”

As a structural engineer you choose to solve constructive challenges. You give asked and uninvited advice to the project developer, architect or contractor. Advice in which the forces of the main supporting structure are taken into account. In your daily activities you find it important to increase your knowledge of building constructions by working on various projects for renowned contractors, concrete- and steel suppliers.

In our organisation the bar is set high and you will be working within a team of top-specialists. We are offering a challenging and versatile job in which you can apply and extend your knowledge of constructions and engineering. To be able to properly carry out this job, the following demans are important:

  • A Bachelor or Masters degree in (Civil) Engineering or a minimum of 5 years work experience in the concerned field of expertise;
  • Demonstrable experience with the calculation of constructions in the utility building & apartments (high buildings);
  • You are well-grounded in constructions with knowledge of concrete and steel;
  • You are studious, ambitious and driven to grow by calculating challenging projects.

Our demands may be high but…

  • Do you have the goal of career growth in the upcoming years?
  • Would you like being involved in various and renowned projects?
  • Do you think working in our office in Valencia (Spain) for a period of 3 – 6 months or maybe longer is a great adventure?
  • Do you want to work within a team of specialists?

… than you will fit in our team!

Do you want to know more about this vacancy, please contact our human resource coördinator.
You can reach Karin through this telephone number: 040 2085250 (tuesday, thursday and friday)

Employment: fulltime

Finally: why would you want to work for us?

Working on challenging and unique projects in The Netherlands and Spain. Conquering the Spanish market together with really fun colleagues. And in the weekends enjoying the Spanish sun, tapas, paëlla, sangria and all the wonderful things the beautiful Valencia has to offer. In short, a very special career step!

Apply here!

Snijders Ingenieursgroep goes on an adventure in Spain!

After a thorough market research and the necessary preparations we have decided to open a business establishment of Snijders Ingenieursgroep in Spain. The beautiful Valencia will be the location of this business establishment where 5 Revit modelers will start working from november. And from january we will add Tekla modelers and engineers as new members of the Spanish team.

We have chosen a state of the art building of Regus. It is best situated relative to 3 important business districts in Valencia, nearby the port and opposite the Estadio Mastalla of Valencia FC!

An extensive selection took place amongst a lot of enthusiastic candidates. Therefrom we have chosen 5 talented and motivated Revit modelers en engineers who will be working under the name Snijders Engineering Group. We are also expecting a lot of interest in the vacancy of Tekla modeler for which we will be starting the selection procedure in short term.

At the start in november a Revit specialist and projectleader from Snijders Ingenieursgroep in The Netherlands will be giving a training for our new Spanish colleagues. After the training the Spanish team will be committed to support their Dutch colleagues in current Dutch projects. Thereafter they will discover the Spanish market to start new projects.

Valencia belongs to the top four business cities in Spain and we are convinced that our Spanish colleagues of Snijders Engineering Group will make a resounding success of our core business: engineering and modeling precast concrete constructions!

We are very proud of and enthusiastic about this big step in the development of Snijders Ingenieursgroep!

Curro VerhagenDirector