A question for ROV Pilots/Technicians already ‘out there’

If it’s a subsea environment you’re interested in getting involved in you could always give the likes of Aker, FMC, Cammeron or Vetco a try working on manifolds, Christmas Trees & other subsea hardware. Pleanty of different environments to get involved in with them in different disciplines.

There’s always ships crew as well working as vessel engineers.

Cheers mate,

pretty quick reply there! Yeah the ‘control and monitoring’ of the mentioned systems/hardware is also a possibility.

At present the ROV side of things is my primary interest but will look those companies up on the ‘net’ to see about other avenues………..just the sort of info i was after.

Thanks for your time!

Ed,
As you have already said you are currently a service engineer, with most companies any type of technical service engineer will go pretty high up on the list of potential ROV trainees, the only thing you seem to be missing is an "offshore" background, in the current work climate it should’nt be too difficult to get a start offshore for a while, but as I said the "service" background would put you on most lists, so it may be worth firing cv’s out all over (it can’t do any harm).
Good luck with it mate, a change from guys expecting to walk into the industry with no work history other than "carpet fitting, french polishing, or counting oranges in Sainsbury’s "

Spark784,

Your right about the lack of offshore background but with a little bit a graft/time I reckon I can pull it off, I am looking into getting a BOSIET sorted so at least that is another tick in the box.
Thanks for your input, will do a bit more research into the companies mentioned by the other guys and start blasting out the CV’s next week

Take it easy mate…………….

Ed, remember ROV is not the industry everyone would like to believe it is. for a start money is crap nowadays compared to what a service tech with the likes of Camerons, Aker Kverner, FMC and the likes, for instance I was on a job last year using CVC tool (Cameron Vertical Connection tool) installing jumpers and the tech was on £520 a day. All the subsea completions companies have similar tools and systems, FMC Kongsberg has ROVCON and others, Kverner has RTS and Icarus, thats just a couple to name but a few, most the these types of connection tools are ROV mounted and operated through ROV telemetry and Hydraulics and use similar technology to what an ROV has. I would imagine that getting an oportunity on these things is as hard as getting into ROV but once you get a foot in the door with a completions company I doubt it would that difficult to get a switch over to the remote technology department.

ROV valley commando (good name!)

The companies mentioned I am not familiar with but will look into them and their roles, I’m not too worried initially on starting on the low wages, with experience and graft that will come. I’m only 31 so this is my go at a second career as I’m not the type to do a 9 – 5 job.
Nice to see that I am getting some positive feed back from this forum.

Like I said to Spark784 cheers for the info and help, I can see this process taking a few months but I am on this website now so if any other ‘non obvious’ questions spring up I know to put them this way.

Cheers Cdo!