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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
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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
mining refrigeration Jobs W.A. Help please!!
in Western Australia
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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.