LOOKING FOR OFFSHORE WORK - PLEASE HELP

kratos 123 · Postby **kratos 123** » September 6th, 2019, 2:35 pm

Good day everyone

I recently completed my degree in EEET with First Class Honors and have been looking for offshore/oil and gas work for a while now. I even landed an interview at Kenson and aced it. However the client, BHP never got back to Kenson so I was never called.

I even paid and did my TBOSIET. I am more than willing to be some OIM's lackey. Just looking for an opportunity here people.

Anyways ...

The only way to land a job is to have links...so my question is...
Can anyone help?

zoom rader · Postby **zoom rader** » September 6th, 2019, 4:13 pm

OP

You not going to get an Engineering role working on-site offshore.
Very few guys working offshore are engineers, besides the OIM and most are operations engineers.

The guys that work offshore are mostly Technicians, lead technicians, Supervisors. operators , deck hands, cooks/cleaners, some lab techs. OIM. Does not make sense having an engineer offshore unless they working on a project.

Engineers normally work in the offices and from time to time may spend about a day or two offshore, thats it.

Best you do a certified PLC course as a full user programming engineer from Allen Bradley/Rockwell/Siemens . That will help you as a specialist.

I worked offshore north sea & Africa for years and its about the same. The pay rate has dropped over the years and it is not what it used tobe a few years ago.

Best of luck

Look here

https://www.oilandgasjobsearch.com

https://www.rigzone.com

kratos 123 · Postby **kratos 123** » September 6th, 2019, 4:35 pm

Thanks zoom
I'll definately look into a specialized plc course. Also I'm not looking for an engineering role. I know i'm not ready for that yet. Ideally I would like to come in as a technician or operator...or even a roustabout...just trying to get one foot in the door.

10-01 · Postby **10-01** » September 6th, 2019, 4:48 pm

buddy u looking for the same thing about 2000 uwi / Utt engineering grads looking for .........

kavaninho · Postby **kavaninho** » September 6th, 2019, 5:02 pm

join the rat race

zoom rader · Postby **zoom rader** » September 6th, 2019, 6:05 pm

kratos 123 wrote:Thanks zoom
I'll definately look into a specialized plc course. Also I'm not looking for an engineering role. I know i'm not ready for that yet. Ideally I would like to come in as a technician or operator...or even a roustabout...just trying to get one foot in the door.

Normally offshore like to hire practical folk. offshore everything is about safety.

You may need todo a compex course, which is hard as hell to pass if you want to work in Africa/uk for a British company. Compex is for all electrical trades, instrument, fire & gas, electrical and telecoms.

Might be worth doing a small bore tubing course, flange bolting ect.

medalist · Postby **medalist** » September 6th, 2019, 6:14 pm

The red and yellow logo company had a good bit of vacancies out recently. Idk if they start processing as yet.

Numb3r4 · Postby **Numb3r4** » September 6th, 2019, 6:34 pm

Have you tried a company like JSL, I knew of some engineers that were working as operator with them, a while a back though.

You can try this
Saw this company advertising on facebook recently just thought I'd share it.

Feel free to comment and add any info. about the company if you have any.

Jobs Page
https://www.eldoradooffshore.com/job.html

Home Page
https://www.eldoradooffshore.com/index.html

I believe I saw their Trinbagonian email as: recruitment.tt@eldoradooffshore.com

The Guyanese email is recruitment.gy@eldoradooffshore.com

Everyone keeps talking about Guyana and that you should go there, I don't know, seems like a bit of a hole.
I don't hear much, and I don't see much recruitment going on for any project there.