just a genaral question not intended to upset anyone as work has gradually died down here in the UNITED KINGDOM im told to cut my losses and cut my losses and therefore get rid of a pices of equipment ive had a good run and enjoyed myself and had great expirience so ive been a fussy lad on jobs good clean machinery at all times and same on my trucks. Now ive had a thing for CANADA for a long time and really want to go over there ive done lots of studying and made up my mind if its time to sell equipment il take the money and run. I no the weather has its ups and downs out there as the uk does too especially in Wales i also want to move to the bc area of canada and thought of settling down in working for somebody out there i know there is a lot of work in CANADA and was wondering for some tips if CANADIAN people yourselfs would consider welcoming me to your community im not using the site as a free job search but id really would appreciate some nice info many thanks :cool2
I moved from England to the US, a fellow worker moved from Australia to the US and two of my mates from school now live here in the US. I don't know how Canada is but The US must be pretty easy to move to. BTW, I am an American citizen with duel citizenship in the UK. I can work in either country.
given the choice then id say that you wouldnt move back to the uk. SO the grass on machinery is greener out there than uk lol
When were you with 1CAV?
Take me there too,please... Yesterday,I applied for the only one vacant that I have seen in my region in the last 5 months,I hope at least have an interview...
Over her its the other way We got one Canadian operating our 140G. (Ross M W) And a big number of Estonians driving trucks. + a number of people from Iceland working for both us and subcontractors. Later this year a number of big projects will start, the next two-three years it will be a big need for operators. Right now we have a campaine recruiting leaders. They talk about the need for 600 leaders for the next 2 years.(foreman and up)
Very interesting post MKTEF, I should learn a little norwegian language
if english language is ok then we will all be there
My daughter is going to Norway in 2012 to attend a university there for one semester in fashion design. Maybe I should tag along and get a little operating time on an excavator!
I would hire you, but my weather is a whole lot harsher than that of b.c!
well thank you for that its good to see that we in the operating world should help each other
Well, read my post carefully... And we got a law against sosial dumping. Means you are not allowed to pay people less than the union minimum. A polish guy then gets minimum the same wage, as a Norwegian aprentice/minimum wage.(Normaly more) So at home his family has the expenses normal for poland, and he is earning the same as Norwegians...(+all the sosial benefits of Norway) No wonder there is thousands of Balticum workers here.. Language is normaly not a problem, if u understand english or german. (In some types of work u need to be able to understand and speek Norwegian)
Work wise I would consider Australia, we cannot get enough workers over here in the Pilbara in Western Australia, they estimate that 40,000 workers are needed, money per hour for operators on a 12 hr day $35-$50 per hr usally on a 7 day 7 night 7 off roster fly you back to Perth and put you up for the 14 days at work, money for jam, worth considering?
Man, I´m desperate right now I finished to read an alert mail from thies, but I need an sponsorship,anyone willing to contract me,by myself I´m not able to go there,It´s very sad for me,I was really from before Christmas trying the way to go there.Currently, since yesterday, I´m tryng to translate offers from Norway,Sweden,Denmark,I´m really bored.
theres a bucket loads of work for diesel mechanics in Western Australia, hard part is getting here to work from what i hear
Yes but the demand is for skilled workers, like engineers and such, there are plenty of people for the semi skilled positions.
This it true to an extent, there is lots of workers needed for the jobs that support the mines, its not uncommon for us to have 5 830's parked up or last week I had 2 3600's parked up due to lack of operators.
Under my viewpoint it is more difficult to get a good grader operator than an engineer,who is more skilled?
i had to laugh, no offence to any engineers out there but "engineer" and "skilled worker" arent metioned in the same phrase much in my line of work I'd have to agree with woorarra that skilled labour, being operators, tradesmen, process staff are very much in demand across the board
this is really interesting as when you say that cos i think your absolutely right engineer is like classed better than the operator but you can find loads of engineers but you really have to look alot further to find a good operator and one who you can rely upon
OK just to clarify my earlier statement, what I mean by skilled is someone who takes years to learn his/her trade in a university or an apprenticeship and yes specialist operators would fall under that classification, whereas my definition of semi-skilled is a job that takes a couple of months to learn how to do effectively. I don't think you need to go to university to learn how drive a dumpy, loader or face shovel. I don't think we have mine engineers falling out of the sky, perhaps in the UK where there is a lack of big open cut mines? Anyway I have no sympathy for the mining companies who are complaining about a lack of suitable workers, far as I know they have done very little in the way of establishing facilities to train the required trades. Ahh well if things don't pick up much around here I might have to look at working in a pit.
In WA there is a huge skills shortage mainly due the the government privatising the transport industries, WAGR (railways) used to not only employ 4000 odd tradespeople but used to train alot of quaility apprentices every year, not just mechanics but draftsmen engineers and most other trades out there too these days bigger sizes companies are training apprentices but use this to their advantage as cheaper labour, ratios of apprentice to tradesmen are about 70% 30% which would be unheard of 10 years ago as for the mines i tend to agree with you but when you have plans to double you workforce you cant simply train more people, you'd struggle to maintain your current size
Not just WA, right across the country, they are talking shortages in the 10's of thousands. http://www.theaustralian.com.au/bus...increasing-costs/story-e6frg90x-1225981616958 http://www.adelaidenow.com.au/news/...stralian-workers/story-e6frea83-1225984693661 http://www.theajmonline.com.au/mini...11/federal-policy-for-resource-skill-shortage http://www.miningaustralia.com.au/news/New-training-department-in-WA
yeh, no doubt there would be i can only speak for over here though.. there's alot of people FIFO to the pilbara from all over WA and even NZ which would be hurting other states no end
The oil/gas industry in America will take laborers,operators and truck drivers. As many as possible and as soon as possible.
...I'm in S.W. Ontario, & I know of a couple of companies that are looking for good operators for excavators & dump trucks...weather is a little different than BC...that's for sure...
is there lots of work out there
There seems to be a fair amount...winter hasn't really left yet so not everyone is in full swing yet.A lot of quoting going on for jobs...
how much snow you got left out there hopefully going on holiday out there soon to have a look around probably see a few companies and take it from there
Not a lot(hardly any) of snow...just don't have the temperatures that are expected for this time of year yet.Still getting snow squalls.Today 6c...tomorrow 19c...Sunday 7c.Up & down like a toilet seat!It's s'pose to be about 12-14ish.Did you have the BL70 or 71?
its a bl71 can you get a bl71 in canada or just a bl70 the difference what i can see is that the 71 has got sideshift funny thing with the weather here in wales uk its really nice and has been for about a month but no doubt our summer months will be crap
No...just the Bl70.The sideshift & vertical stabilizers seem to be the diff...don't know about the HP.Are you just a BH loader operator or also comfortable in an excavator?
im an excavator operator too and i own a volvo ec55b and also a ec35 operated many 13-30 ton excavators i was bought up on a jcb 3cx as we call them here or i think 1550b as what its called with you and then started out on mini excavators i do like a good 4 -8 ton excavator. I will operate backhoe no probs i really like my volvo bl71 but given a choice i like the volvo ec140
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