Scottish Elises

I'm looking for some advice for my son, Tony.
He has recently graduated with a degree in Mechanical Engineering and is looking to find his first engineering job, possibly ( but not exclusively ) in the Oil/Gas/Energy business.
He was with me at KH last night so got some good info on the subject from both Neil and Kinger - thanks guys!

Ideally he would like to get on some type of graduate training scheme.

He is totally flexible in terms of location,

Any thoughts on how best to approach this?

Any suggestions of suitable recruitment agencies or companies where he should send his CV ?

Any advice appreciated.

Kevin

Operator grad program opens for us in Sept. PM me and I can forward the CV to HR but otherwise the grad program sites are best.

He needs to read up a bit on O+G to try and pick an aspect he will be interested in...

Subsea, Wells, Projects, Research + Dev, whatever...

He should have no issue getting a job, engineers are very much in demand in Oil + Gas.

edit: I lied. It closes on the end of may

Take a look at AMEC and BP grad programmes. All info on their websites.

Most of the bigger companies work with uni career departments and go through a well trodden career fair, milk round process. If he has just graduated then I suspect he's too late for this year and will be out of uni next. I think the uni careers dept is still a good place to start. Aberdeen and rgu are well connected with oil companies. Also might be worth considering the Heriot watt petroleum eng masters course for a year then applying on next years intake. Most people on this course go higher in the business so a good investment if its of interest.

Maersk drilling are worth a look. Several other offshore companies have similar schemes I think:

http://www.maerskdrilling.com/Career/Pa ... ammes.aspx

Yep, transocean/ADTI, KCA and most operators

A big thanks to all of you, your help is much appreciated.

Thanks also to Gerard, Graham and Neil for chatting with Tony at Croft and KH and for the follow-up emails.

Tony is following up on each of the suggestions and applying for any appropriate positions.

mxvx, thanks for the offer to forward his CV. I'll PM you.


Kevin

There's a careers fair in Aberdeen on 1st May that might be useful for him - http://www.opportunitiesinoilandgas.com

hendeg wrote:There's a careers fair in Aberdeen on 1st May that might be useful for him - http://www.opportunitiesinoilandgas.com

Thanks Gary, looks really good. Tony's just registered for it.

Kevin

Slightly at a tangent, but Wendy's firm of patent attorneys in Aberdeen are looking for a mechanical engineering or physics graduate to enter their training scheme working towards qualification as a British and European patent attorney. Long, hard slog but well rewarded.

I work with Clydeunion pump, SPX, formally Weirs Pumps in Cathcart and they certainly used to take on graduate engineers and train up. I know there are a few going through and involved With ImechE (institution of mechanical engineers). We provide pumping solutions for the oil and gas industry, and also serve the power, water and industrial industries.

I guess it depends what areas he wants to get into, whether it's products, application, processes etc. Certainly I can pass on his CV if Clydeunion is of interest to him and I don't know if it would be worth talking to the IMechE to see if they have any advice on how to progress?

Probably not relevant for your son but if anywhere else is like Sky then they don't exclusively take people via the milk round. Whilst it's true that our rotational graduate intake (as close as we get to a normal graduate scheme) has closed for the year we are still actively looking for direct entry graduates for a number of roles.

As i said probably not directly of interest to your son (unless he fancys a move to london / livingston and wants to work in IT) but there are still options even at this time of year.

Good luck.

renmure wrote:Slightly at a tangent, but Wendy's firm of patent attorneys in Aberdeen are looking for a mechanical engineering or physics graduate to enter their training scheme working towards qualification as a British and European patent attorney. Long, hard slog but well rewarded.

I can absolutely second that, wrt well rewarded.

renmure wrote:Slightly at a tangent, but Wendy's firm of patent attorneys in Aberdeen are looking for a mechanical engineering or physics graduate to enter their training scheme working towards qualification as a British and European patent attorney. Long, hard slog but well rewarded.

Thanks Jim,
it may seem to be at a tangent but that sort of career is of great interest to Tony.
I'll send you a PM with his details. Please have Wendy take a look.

Lazydonkey wrote:Probably not relevant for your son but if anywhere else is like Sky then they don't exclusively take people via the milk round. Whilst it's true that our rotational graduate intake (as close as we get to a normal graduate scheme) has closed for the year we are still actively looking for direct entry graduates for a number of roles.

As i said probably not directly of interest to your son (unless he fancys a move to london / livingston and wants to work in IT) but there are still options even at this time of year.

Good luck.

Thanks Martin, although he doesn't mind moving anywhere he's not particularly interested in the IT side of things.

s29ttc wrote:I work with Clydeunion pump, SPX, formally Weirs Pumps in Cathcart and they certainly used to take on graduate engineers and train up. I know there are a few going through and involved With ImechE (institution of mechanical engineers). We provide pumping solutions for the oil and gas industry, and also serve the power, water and industrial industries.

I guess it depends what areas he wants to get into, whether it's products, application, processes etc. Certainly I can pass on his CV if Clydeunion is of interest to him and I don't know if it would be worth talking to the IMechE to see if they have any advice on how to progress?

Thanks Scott,
he would appreciate your help in passing on his CV, I'll PM you with his details.
I have a friend who is on the interviewing panel of the IMechE and Tony has already had some advice from him.


Stewart, thanks for the PM. I'll forward his CV.

Kevin