NEVER IN THE DARK · HAROLD

IJmuiden · 14 years at Zwart

Knowing what is happening

Harold Nijholt leads the project engineering team and also works on projects as a project engineer himself. He deals with technical questions, specifications, designs and coordination with customers and suppliers. He deliberately stays close to the projects, so he knows what is happening and what his colleagues are dealing with.

When one detail affects everything

Because in a project, so much is connected. An unanswered technical question, missing information from a supplier or a design that is not checked in time can affect everything that follows. Harold compares it to dominoes: “You really are building one thing after another. If one domino does not fall, the next one will not fall either.”

“One technical detail. One component that does not fit. And suddenly, there is much more at stake.”

Finding the right solution quickly

That became very clear last year, on a project involving six panels being built by a panel builder. A component supplied by the customer turned out to have a manufacturing defect. The first panel fitted, but on the next panel, the coupling did not fit. A solution was needed quickly to modify the panels and prevent further delays.

Progress must not come to a halt

Harold worked with the parties involved to find the cause and explore possible solutions. Because when one component is wrong, the impact goes beyond the technical work. Schedules, transport, storage and workshop activities can all be affected. That is when it matters to keep track of the whole project, bring the information together and get things moving again.

What Harold keeps moving: technical progress between the customer, supplier and workshop.

Unseen. Essential.