ROV pilot tech Trainee seeking first job

Firstly, you do not have IMCA certificates, as IMCA do not certify or authorise anyone else to certyify on their behalf.

What technical qualifications and experience do you have? The training course on its own is not enough for you to get a job, you must come from a technical background. There are hundreds if not thousands of people out there trying to get a start, you have to start searching and making contact with ROV companies to have a remote chance. Read through the Rookies section on herte as many Newbie questions have already been asked and answered.

Also, the 40 hours of actual flying how did you manage that , you would need to do 4 hours solid flying every day of the course. As far as experience goes, it does not count for much.

40 operational hours, ?????????? 🙄 🙄 🙄

ROV P/T Trainee,trained at The Underwater Centre Fort William Scotland.All IMCA certificates,BOSIET and IMIST certificates ready and in hand.Saab Seaeye,Falcons more than 40 operational hours experience.Any recent job info would be more than appreciated.

Having just completed the 3 week course at The Underwater Centre I can confirm you DO NOT get any IMCA Certs, you do however get SQA in Intro to ROV, electrical installation in adverse conditions and Engineering systems. Can pretty much guarantee my previous experience is far more impressive than these three qualifications.
You may have been stood around the shack for 40 hours but you certainly didn’t fly the damn thing for that long. In fact, I would hazard a guess that you barely passed 10…if that.

I’m only just starting out myself but am becoming, already, increasingly annoyed with blaggers that think they can go on these courses and just walk into a job. This course, and others, do not make you a trainee…you have had an expensive introduction. For me it is a step in the right direction and have actually managed to get myself a telephone interview…of which I am pretty proud.

Now do the leg work Kypros, instead of posting BS on a forum with the hope of getting handed job information.

I also did the 3 week course at TUC and I have no background in electronics or any mechanical background, however i got a job within a month. So saying you HAVE to have this background is BS. I agree it helps massively, but its not the be all and end all. If you come across as the right person, you may get a start.

The OP never once said he had 40 hours flying, he said operational time, which means he was either flying/co-pilot/ working the tether etc etc.

This forum is so negative towards new starters, remember you were all in his position once !!

Good luck

This thread was first started in Feb 2013. It has had over 3000 views! That’s pretty indicative of how many people are out there looking at ROV as a source of income. I guess a lot of this has stemmed from the downturn of work onshore. It’s never going to be easy for any trainee to get a start, but these days I suspect it will be even more difficult than it was say five years back.

If people think paying out for an ROV course is an easy ( I didn’t say cheap) route to an instantly well paid career (compared to onshore) they are in for a shock.

As a rule as a ROV Supv and I find out that a trainee has come offshore with no other electrical/mechanical/hydraulic qualifications other than a ROV course I enquire at the base at management level to uncover the reason.
If I find out that said trainee has jumped the queue (Not got Lucky) over a qualified new start in waiting by free job no money as an example I go ballistic at the office then make a point of not re-hiring person until he/she has gone away for 2 years to get HNC/Diploma etc to go along with his £10,000 ROV course.
Its not his fault I here you say but when the team has to carry a person who is not skilled in a discipline then it puts more pressure/hours on the rest creating a bad atmosphere for the guy in question again not his fault unless HE realises HE should NOT have started out that way in the first place.

Well good luck Ilya. You join thousands of many others.

The training supplied by Subnet is not particularly well thought of and the "operational" hours done at the school equally doesn’t really count for much.

I would suggest increasing your knowledge in hydraulics and fibre optics to assist your CV and make yourself even more employable.