Another week, another scan of the Saturday Star newspaper. Here’s a list of job ads in the paper:
- SABIC is recruiting. It is looking for a maint mech eng, mechanical engineer, mech insp eng, instrument and controls engineer, comm eng, stress analysis eng, corrosion / metallurgy eng, process eng, advanced process control eng, SHE eng, fire eng. You can apply via email here.
- Synergy is recruiting Lead and Senior Safety Engineers. Send an email to Synergy if you have the qualifications. Very short listed applicants will be contacted. Others: submit at your peril.
Wata - Malaysian Oil and Gas Engineer 
maybe some adverts for positions in Synergy?
Jabba: Haven’t completed the article. Didn’t want to disappoint the fans of this topic, so decide to shoot out stuff first, add on later. Synergy’s looking for staff?
may i know how a fresh graduates can get a chance to work with oil and gas since most of the requirement need and experience person with oil gas.
Senior/Lead Safety Engineers – Jakarta
Lots of money
Firdaus: Offer to work for dry bread and water in an oil and gas consultancy, and after 10 years of hard labour, you’ll be an experienced oil & gas engineer. Oil & gas companies will be queuing up for you then
Hi,
I’ve heard there will be a walk-in Interview for ExxonMobil at JWMarriot, KL. May I know when it will be held. Could you post the article here?
TQ.
ok, let me give once in a lifetime advice, because i am in a good mood today.
Working for big company (Shell, Petronas etc) as a fresh graduate is bad. You can little pay, and no real learning experience. After working for big company after 10 yrs, your salary is probably lower than people working for small company with REAL experience and then jumping to the biggies…..
Oh my god, I am a fresh graduate AND I am working for the big companies. How now? What is your advice?
dear Wata.
i want to know the job opportunities of a person that holding a certains certificate such as NDT inspector or CSWIP welding inspector. For your info im also a degree holder in chemical engineering (gas tech) from universiti malaysia pahang (fresh graduate). so if i go for a training for NDT inspector is it will be a strong support for me to getting a job?
thank you
looking forward to hear your opinion sir.
Haq: Any certification is good, though NDT is already a mechanical specialty. I think that you need to figure out what you want to do in 10 years, and make sure any steps you take will lead you to that end, and not result in a dead end, or leading you down another path. Kinda like playing Civilization, and deciding which Tech path you want to go down.
chem eng grad with NDT = bad choice
thank you for your reply and opinion wata and jabba the hut
erm for jabbathehut, basically my course it’s not pure chemical engineering im majoring in gas technology ( back at my university i had study n covered about piping for gas,did my gas lab with a basic approach of hydrotest and NDT-MPI,welding(GTAW n SMAW).
for more info i am the student from universiti malaysia pahang also the student of the first batch for chemical engineering(gas tech).
thank for the info and opinion.
little money, long hours, no growth prospect = NDT
Try to learn real engineering, join engineering company like Worley, Technip, RNZ, MMC, SBM…..
you should hit 6 digit salary in 6 – 8 yrs if you’re good.
Hi Jabbathehutt,
I have 10 years experience in the semiconductor industry (process and equipment engineering) and am interested to enter the O&G. I did Mech Eng with my thesis in pipeline flow simulation. You mentioned that some career paths have dead ends. In my industry, Facility Engineers have a dead end as they can never become GM of a semiconductor company (most jump to O&G for better career prospects) whereas Process/ Product Engineers have a better chance. Do you have any advice for a person like me on what kind of job I can apply for (without a dead end)? What is considered “real” engineering?
SS: I’m impressed. My thesis was on bugs eating rubbish (translate: pseudomonas consuming excess monomer in polymer emulsions)
Yes, pipeline flow simulation is one of the most lucrative specialist skills. If you are interested, that’s a good start.
You have went into the semiconductor industry for 10 yrs, which is a bad thing, because that would equal to 0 year (yes, zero) in O&G terms. Unless you’re willing to go down to working with a RM2500 salary, its difficult.
What I can suggest is you is join a O&G technical sales company (selling products like valves, etc) for one or two years. They can still accept you with your working experience. Once you know enough jargon and how O&G works, you try to jump into a engineering/services/consultants/oil company as a project engineer. It is difficult to join as a mechanical/technical engineer.
Real engineering would limit to two fields;
1. Facility engineering – which is how to trouble shoot, and a lot of field work. This includes fixing, installing, checking stuff
2. Design engineering – design an equipments, plant facilities, even a piping line size. how big, how small, what dimension, how long, where to put things, etc.
Thanks for the reply Jabbathehutt. Understand that I would be more suited as a “generalist” than a “specialist” given the number of years not being in O&G.
I have equipment setup and commissioning experience. Understand from reading about O&G that some Project Engineering roles would require such experience.
In your opinion, what is the prospect of a Rotating/ Static Equipment Engineer? Judging by my previous experience, these job descriptions are most closely linked to my experience (though semiconductor equipment may be worlds apart in a lot of aspects).
Right now I am in Quality Assurance and working my way to get my corporate membership in IEM.
Have you met anyone from semiconductor (or other industry) who has caught up quickly in O&G?
Nope, don’t know anyone that made a successful transformation.
i am fresh graduate from universiti malaysia pahang and seeking my first job. currently i am doing my internship at KSB attached to piping fabrication department. its it suitable for me to apply for this position as i am fresh graduate?? for your info i’m holder in bachelor of mechanical engineering.
kimi: Have you looked at the job market now? If you want an income, take any job remotely close to the career you want, and then get choosy when the times are good.
I am a chemistry graduate, and have worked in printing industry as QA/QC for a year.
I am very interested to work in O&G industry, but my qualification doesn’t allow me to. Is there any way i could get a job in O&G sector ? Or i have to take up another degree in engineering? :X
Matthew: one year QA/QC doesnt count as anything. I suggest you go and work for companies that supply chemicals to the O&G industry. MECAS, Nalco are some examples.
Wata: By doing so, would i be able to work in platform or offshore as a full-fledged engineer in the future ? Anyway, thanks for the heads up.
matthew: of course not, the same way I cannot be a full fledge chemist without going back to school, though I think my degree is 2/3rds the way there.
Wata: That means i’d have to get an engineering degree? Back to lecture halls again?
By any means, engineers are better than chemists. The pay is not lucrative at all.
matthew: if you want to be called an engineer, you gotta pay the time. But, if you want higher income, then think of yourself as an enterpreneur or businessman, rather than a technical wage slave, and plan your experiences in that direction. For one thing, have you gone to OGA this week?
hey matthew
just for info, if u want to be as QA/QC in O&G u dun even need a degree in engineering.go register urself at ruane-tati instute at kemaman for NDT course.only six month training for dat course n then u will qualified urself to be as Qa/Qc inspector. NDT=non destructive test ( 4 course of NDT are:magnetic particle test,dye penetrant,ultrasonic and radiographic).during a six month training u will cover all the four course of NDT dat i mentioned above. this kind of course also available at TWI at sg buloh. im not sure about the fees of dat course but im fully awared dat four of them r involve a lot of money.
just type at google “ruane-tati” then try to contact them if u want a further detail.
with a diploma you can be a QA/QC, but don’t hope the same treatment for an engineer.
Going for an engineer course also doesn’t guarantee you get a job in the oil and gas industry
Ashraf: I’ve heard alot on NDT and i know it pays well. However, it’s not the field i would venture in. Like you’ve mentioned, one does not even need a degree to work as inspector, so what’s the point taking up my degree at the first place. Thanks anyway.
Jabbathehutt: I am a chemistry degree holder. Is it possible that i study up masters in chemical engineering, and join O&G companies after that?
Wata: I understand perfectly what it takes to be rich and free, but i like the prospect of working in O&G industry and it pays well.
Nope, i’ve not been to OGA, busy being a technical wage slave 😦 Btw, i actually do more than being just QA/QC. I am also the company’s HSE officer and waste management personnel.
Matthew: you can take a Masters in ChemEng if you want to move (my old boss did this). However, expect to get a lot of hassle from the Board of Engineers, Malaysia if you want to be a Professional Engineer.
Ah, our old chemistry graduate boss, which in the end became a well respected process specialist
Jabba: I note that you use the word specialist, not engineer. BTW, when people start asking for jabba by name for advice, you know it’s time to sell of the blog site to him. I’ll take Republic or Imperial credits.
Wata: I thought of taking Masters in Chem Eng too, and yes the board’s going to do everything to stop me, or tell me do the 4 year programme first, then only talk.
I guess i shall stop here. Thanks for the many advices, guys.
useful posting.thanks
go into crime. That pays faster.
Try the following carrier path:
Parking attendant > Gigolo > Pimp > Drug Pusher > Politician > Vice president of a oil company
alternatively
Engineer > Senior Engineer > Lead Engineer > Own Company > VP of a oil company
See the analogy?
Parking Attendant = Engineer = Taking shit and earn little money
Gigolo = Senior Engineer = repeated screwed by client
Pimp = Lead Engineer = Screw your engineers/seniors and sell them to client
Drug pusher = own company = sell solutions and create problems