Engineering job market in Australia
Engineering job market in Australia
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Dear fellow engineers
I am due to return to Australia early 2017 after few years working overseas mainly with EPCM companies on various industrial construction projects. Would someone suggest what is the current job market status in Australia , how easy is to find a new role at senior/principal/manager level since the slowdown on capital expenditure in the region. Thank you
I am due to return to Australia early 2017 after few years working overseas mainly with EPCM companies on various industrial construction projects. Would someone suggest what is the current job market status in Australia , how easy is to find a new role at senior/principal/manager level since the slowdown on capital expenditure in the region. Thank you





RE: Engineering job market in Australia
RE: Engineering job market in Australia
Coalseam Gas (CSG) development in Queensland is still moving forward quite sluggishly now that the LNG plants around Gladstone are on-line, but the 2012 collapse in oil prices had a huge negative impact on the industry and I heard last month that some companies are planning further layoffs. None of my clients in Brisbane or Adelaide are returning phone calls these days, and a large number of the engineers I worked with at the major CSG production companies are currently out of work. When things come back, you'll have to get in line behind people with Oil & Gas experience instead of EPCM experience.
David Simpson, PE
MuleShoe Engineering
In questions of science, the authority of a thousand is not worth the humble reasoning of a single individual. Galileo Galilei, Italian Physicist
RE: Engineering job market in Australia
RE: Engineering job market in Australia
"Nonsense": applying a partially understood concept that applies to a portion of the universe to the entire universe.
Some (but by no means all) CSG wells in Queensland ever have a frac job, and the ones that do generally don't get a lot of improvement over non-frac'd wells. Applying hydraulic fracture stimulation to a very soft formation like a coal seam has had marginal to poor impact on production, certainly not a change in the amount of gas that can be produced economically.
David Simpson, PE
MuleShoe Engineering
In questions of science, the authority of a thousand is not worth the humble reasoning of a single individual. Galileo Galilei, Italian Physicist
RE: Engineering job market in Australia
RE: Engineering job market in Australia
Let's see. Operations at the largest automotive development centre in the southern hemisphere are expanding. Carbon Revolutions is expanding their world first production technology. Somebody will have to sort the South Australian energy supply mess out, I expect one or two engineers will be involved, or we could leave it to the politicians cos they've done such a good job so far.
Cheers
Greg Locock
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RE: Engineering job market in Australia
RE: Engineering job market in Australia
"...when logic, and proportion, have fallen, sloppy dead..." Grace Slick
RE: Engineering job market in Australia
http://www.theage.com.au/business/workplace-relati...
quote "Engineering has a highly cyclical employment market, and long-term migration is a method of moderating this boom/bust cycle," rather a lam reply I think. The same thinking is in Canada as well?
RE: Engineering job market in Australia
suggests that some sectors in engineering do well as others do not at a particular time. Quite where each industry is in its cycle is of course not explained in that report.
Currently I would guess that mining has slowed right down, and of course manufacturing has been hard hit for several years.
Cheers
Greg Locock
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