ROV Engineer

4 years 😯
Lets see now ……………average ……………..183 days working
times 4 = 732 divided 365 comes to actual days worked experience 2 years 😯
I see where you are coming from Rovnump 8)
Good background knowledge of life and operations offshore makes for a better engineer onshore espeicially the downfalls of logistics / breakdowns and knowing how the Scorpions (Clients) operate on a contractual basis 😀
……………………………. But that would be too intelligent 😆

Let me think, offshore since 1984, regularly on ROV operations but not constant – that wouldn’t count for those who equate hours o/s with experience or ability. hmmm. I have read more than enough CVs of "pilots" who have the hours logged but somehow haven’t got the skills.

As I said before, for good ops, especially the intervention stuff, you need both good engineer and good pilots.

(This thread is a bit silly?)

A certain company in Aberdeen have been advertising for a ROV coordinators position for almost 3 months, they would prefer offshore ROV experience but there have been no applicants. The next preference is degree (engineer) qualified.
In an ideal world all the ROV onshore support would be degree qualified with 10 years plus offshore experience but sadly, that would mean putting quality above cost…….

It’s one of the biggest soon to be biggest……
Pay grade and perks….. you mean less money, on call, more politics from penny pinching accountants and grief from offshore???
Yep that’s why there is little interest from offshore chaps to move onshore and the only interested parties are those who have seen the Transocean accident and thought "ROV’s? How hard can it be?"

Niave… not quite. But it is essential to appreciate that decisions are generally not made with by engineering logic but by managers who have no experience of offshore operations. There have been a number who have made the transtition to onshore with the hope of changing things for the better but the reality of ideology versus acceptable business practice to senior management is soon established.
Erhm don’t be put off if you fancy a challenge – the more the merrier.

That’s the problem with someone straight out of University with a Degree.

They can tell you the square root of an orange but they cannot peel it!

Graduate engineers are on about 30 to 35k, supervisors are on a touch more, especially if the 183 days rule comes into play. Senior management will not break the pay structure so we are stuck with this situation.