Jobs in Scotland

[oobster]

Folks,

I'm in the middle of being made redundant from an H&S position with a large telecommunications company & I'd value any input from my fellow scotspeople on obtaining a new position elsewhere.

I have been searching s1jobs.com, and buying the Record on a Thursday + the Scotsman & Herald on a Friday, plus searching the jobcentreplus website - is there any other avenues I should be looking at?

Ideally looking for something H&S-related in the central belt (Falkirk, West Lothian, Glasgow, Edinburgh, EK etc) so if anyone hears of a suitable position becoming available i'd really appreciate it!

Cheers

Andy

[edinandrew]

You could also try Jobsite, Totaljobs and fish4jobs although these aren't brilliant for Scottish roles. I work in recruitment but unfortunately we don't cover many Health and Safety roles. I do however work with a number of large Scottish organisations so will keep my ear to the ground and if I hear of anything will send you a mail or message.

[tonto1]

H&S (I assume you mean Health & Safety?), get your self up to Aberdeen the oil industry is always looking for H&S people. They're also one of the few industries doing (and paying) well at the moment.

Try: oilcareers dot com

[westtra]

http://yourjob.ajl.co.uk/

[ASBO]

tonto1 said:

H&S (I assume you mean Health & Safety?), get your self up to Aberdeen the oil industry is always looking for H&S people. They're also one of the few industries doing (and paying) well at the moment.

Try: oilcareers dot com

HSE people are some of the highest paid in the industry.

[Kiltie]

ASBO said:

HSE people are some of the highest paid in the industry.

ASBO said:

HSE people are some of the highest paid in the industry.

Sure? Drilling engineers with 10ish years are getting four figures.

I don't think the same level in HSE commands that kind of money.

Correct me if I'm wrong though ... 'cos risk assessments and sumitting PON15's is a piece of piss.

Cheers,

Eric

[Naso Grande]

In terms of dayrate vs. training & experience ASBO is correct. Not quite 4 figures a day which is the domain of those who have to make crucial high value decisions but certainly they're on a par with experienced lead engineers. Such was the shortage of these people that anybody with a NEBOSH ticket could command a relatively high dayrate in the Oil & Gas sector and we're not talking about 3-4 years on a degree course and then another 5 years gaining the experience to work your way up the food chain.

It's as close as you can get to money for old rope.

[Kiltie]

Naso Grande said:

... but certainly they're on a par with experienced lead engineers.

You say that but there's a substantial disparity between engineering disciplines. Right now, I think the order is something like this ...

• Drilling
• Process
• Subsea / trees / completions
• Controls / instrumentation
• Pipeline / marine construction
• General topside / piping / electrical
• Project controls / planning / cost control

I'm not sure about G&G / reservoir but I guess they'll be in the higher echelons.

Working for an operator, I'd say the rates here vary from four figures down to around £400.

Cheers,

Eric

Edited by Kiltie on Saturday 6th September 11:37

[agent006]

http://jobs.ac.uk if you can stomach working for a university.

[Reidy10_0]

I would save your money buying the record.
i have never seen anything worthwhile advertised in the record.

[Mr POD]

tonto1 said:

H&S (I assume you mean Health & Safety?), get your self up to Aberdeen the oil industry is always looking for H&S people. They're also one of the few industries doing (and paying) well at the moment.

Try: oilcareers dot com

What he said. Research the companies you'd like to work for and contact them direct. Almost all have website's, and applegate lists key contacts. Phone them speculatively.

[oobster]

Cheers for the advice folks.

I won't bore readers with reasons but I'd rather look for a position locally - I might investigate the Aberdeen/offshore stuff later if I dont have much success round here.