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The availability of sufficient personnel with the right education and skills is increasingly important to businesses, and consequently for the regions.
More to the point, for a national or international company the availability of a good workforce is one of the most important factors in deciding where to locate the business, and for established companies it is essential to sound economic development. It is also the most important factor that can be influenced by policy.
Employment
Groningen Seaports creates clusters and partnerships around the propositions “circular”, “biobased chemical industry”, and “energy/energy-related” in a responsible and sustainable manner, in order to provide employment, value, and a good quality of life for existing and future clients and other interested parties within its management area and in the northern Netherlands.
This employment is derived from economic developments on the sites, the investments of Groningen Seaports, and the land allocations. These are strongly interrelated. More than 16,000 people work in the two port areas (8,439 direct and 7,640 indirect in 2024).
Work in Eemshaven
As partner, Groningen Seaports supports the initiative WerkenInDeEemshaven.nl. This initiative comes from businesses that are located in Eemshaven. They wish to share their passion and happiness at work to approach more enthusiastic future employees.
Eemshaven is a unique place for employment: with its location, infrastructure, and energy infrastructure, it is a favoured location for renowned international brands. In the coming years, Eemshaven will be in the vanguard of the energy transition and Eemshaven and its businesses are looking for enthusiastic employees who would love to work here in a broad range of jobs. The vacancies are listed by company on the website.
Competencies and skills
In order to work specifically on strengthening the regional economy, you have to know which skills are present in the region, now and in the coming years, and how this relates to the expected quantitative and qualitative demand.
Together with the Groningen-Assen Region and Groningen Council, Ecorys has conducted research into the competencies and skills of employees in the Groningen-Assen region and the Eemsdelta region, with a focus on the driving sectors energy, IT, chemistry, and metal/electrical engineering.
This skills audit demonstrates that the Groningen-Drenthe region has a high potential of well-trained technical employees compared to other regions in the Netherlands and abroad. The workforce in the region is characterised by a large group (160,000) with technical qualifications. A third of these currently works in a technical job, which means there is a potential group of more than 100,000 employees with a suitable background that could be reached.
The most common technical skills in the region are electrical and electronic engineering, mechanical engineering, process technical skills, and measurement and process control skills. This workforce has multiple competencies and better language skills compared to other regions. From a labour-market point of view, it makes the region an excellent and attractive base for national and international companies that need technical knowledge.
