Expat  workers are playing a more important role in SNEI’s international projects, as  SNEI continues its rapid growth in the international market, where there are  increasing project opportunities. By employing expat workers, it will avoid the  problems related to using labor from China, such as high cost, difficulty  mobilization and management problems, thus it will help reduce labor cost and  increase the profit margin. To this end, SNEI’s Saudi Branch is beefing up  efforts to utilize such international resources by employing expat workers from  third countries with various skills utilizing block visas, and assigning them to  the related construction branches of SNEI for training. As a result of on-site  experiences, most of these expat workers have mastered certain level of  professional skills, and are playing a more important role on the construction  sites.

Training  & performance evaluation. Trainings are conducted by each discipline during  break time for expat workers in terms of theory and actual operation on site,  and excellent workers are selected through skill evaluation and examination,  which provides strong support for the building of expat teams. Under guidance by  the Branch, the expat workers team building plan is prepared and successfully  implemented, which comes with significant effect; skill trainings for expat  workers team are also being conducted. As a next step, skill evaluation and  examination will be held in order to select excellent workers to join the  teams.

Team  building. Through skill-oriented training, regular evaluation, examination and  skill combination, team building is completed for the expat workers team. During  the building, the quantity and scale of expat workers are growing in a spiral  way from such training, who are gradually becoming a key part of the  construction resources in the projects undertaken by SNEI in Saudi Arabia, which  meets the schedule requirements, creates new profit margin, enhanced market  competitiveness, and secures a long-term, healthy and stable growth for SNEI’s  international business.