TomWilly
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Registered: 20th Sep 05
Location: Bristol
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WHITTIE YOU SLAG THIS IS WHAT IM DOING
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Colin
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Registered: 4th Apr 02
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quote:
Originally posted by C2RL R
colin - how did you get into offshore work mate? i could do with earning some serious coin and i have very few commitments atm so it would suit me quite well.
2 ways really :
1 - Spend a bit of cash doing the basic safety courses the industry requires you to have, get them then aproach companies to get off as a rousty (labourer) then work your way up. Nothngs guaranteed though & the money wont be amazing straight away.
2 - Apply to likes of ECITB or Opito Training management to do an apprenticeship, they each take on about 100 technicians a year to train up in a trade/technician disciplin. Youve mised the baot with them for this years intake, next wave will be next year. Be prepaired to be a scumbag apprentice on £80 a week for 18 months before you even get to see a helicopter or platform.
Asides from that you need a degree & indurstry experience to get off.
[Edited on 11-07-2008 by Colin]
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Eddie.2k
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Like Colin said, Im working for woodgroup but it is ECITB who i had to hand in my application form. They were looking for for more apprectices this year but the closing date was 4th july
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C2RL R
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Registered: 28th Mar 02
Location: Redcliffe, QLD
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i've not got a degree. i've got a HND in electrical engineering though. dont think i'd be able to drop to £80 a week.
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IvIarkgraham
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Registered: 27th Mar 04
Location: Ellesmere Port, Cheshire
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22k upwards
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sxibeast
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Registered: 6th Aug 03
Location: Milton Keynes
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ive just got mt HNC in mechanical engineering, was going to do uni course it it next year, but im not to well at the moment so ive put it off for a year so i can recover 100%. currently on £26500 a year, got payrise end of this month so should be on hopefully around
£28/29k
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jimmy 2.1
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Registered: 17th Oct 05
Location: Shipley, West Yorkshire
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I'm an Electrical maintenance engineer. Basically i repair CNC grinding machines, EDM machines and furnaces, and general factory maintenance. I'm on around £25k working 3 shifts (earlies, lates, nights).
For my apprenticeship i did a block year at college doing NVQ L2 in basic engineering along with City & Guilds 201 for further education work. (I left school with shite results). The following year i did day release to college and did well enough to bump myself onto the ONC course. I also did the NVQ L3 which was in log book form and that took around 2 years to complete. When i finished the ONC i then went on to do HNC but stopped after that.
Tbh i think its an industry you've got to be interested in.
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Richie B
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Registered: 18th Apr 04
Location: Newcastle
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Friend of mine's just left uni as an MEng and got a job paying just upwards of 20k atm
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Mertin
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Registered: 12th Oct 05
Location: Scotland
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Im a mechanical maintenance technician, same scheme as Colin
18 months at college full time on £80 a week and travel expense and accomodation paid for me
1st year offshore is 16k
2nd year is 20k
After that your fully qualified and earning upwards of 47k, and working 2 weeks on 3 weeks off
And I only work whens theres things broken :L So some of the times im sitting about doing nothin!
I couldnt do enginerring that involved calcualations and pish, hands on ftw
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