rickmoore1

I have been doing the fifo thing for some time now all over Asia and when i get to these locations i may be there for a month at a time. yes i will be in a big city but i don't talk the language and i never seem to do less than a 12 hour days, with 16 hour days common. so the mine should be some what good as at least i can have a decent conversation in English and they may be boring but when you have time of then its up to you where you go and make up for lost time :-) i see jobs advertised for refrigeration / air conditioning guys to work full time on mine sites taking care of the village sites split air-cons, kitchen equipment, machine water chillers etc is it realistic to expect to be able to get these jobs? has w.a. relay got a skills shortage in these areas? i have seen company's advertising will fly you in and out from any where in Australia this says to me they are having real difficulty filling positions.

Thanks yes i should have said i am 30 years old so that would put me in the range you have suggested. Thanks for the advise all thoughts are welcome. Regards Rick

. Need advise on the mining work in w.a. ? Hi I am just finishing of my visa to come over to W.A. i am a refrigeration engineer by trade working mostly on commercial catering equipment. for the past year i have been working from Thailand flying all over south east Asia training on the equipment my company produces. I am aware i will need to get the Australian refrigeration and electrical qualifications before i can get work and have allowed for 4-6 months sorting this all out. Hopefully i can do it quicker as i have been in contact with the collage that will asses me and give the training required to get the Australian qualifications. I have 10 years experience with refrigeration equipment and a further 6 with electrical and mechanical maintenance i did an electrical / mechanical aprentaship at a lead processing factory in the u.k. before working for a refrigeration company fixing commercial refrigeration systems chillers freezers etc. from this job I have been working as the technical refrigeration engineer for a u.s.a. based company. They manufacture commercial fast food refrigeration equipment. I have been living in Bangkok and working all over Asia in this role. So the question is how much work is there available in these mines in w.a. for a skilled guy? I don’t mind being on site for 4 weeks at a time as I am single so no one is pushing me to go home I can do as I please. I do have a friend that has been working in a mine now for 6 months and he tells me he got a gob in two weeks after he got his Australian qualifications and he was offered 4 jobs the same week. He is now working 4 weeks on 1 off from a mine in w.a. has he been lucky or is there a genuine skils shortage in w.a. and people with skills like refrigeration, electrical, hydraulics etc can almost pick and choose the jobs? Would love some other peoples opinions on this