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Posted on 6/3/17 at 3:30 am to fightin tigers
Around 130. All of them were 40+ year employees. A lot of experience to lose at one time. LD left in December after 49yrs.
Posted on 6/3/17 at 3:34 am to biohzrd
I never thought he would leave.
Good for all of them.
Good for all of them.
Posted on 6/3/17 at 3:40 am to fightin tigers
Yup. All of them were good guys.
Posted on 6/3/17 at 3:50 am to Jpeazyy
Inspection for 25 yrs, now job is safe but value the one u have know
Posted on 6/3/17 at 4:02 am to upgrayedd
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If you can be a total dick to strangers and sit on your arse, you'll be a perfect operator.
Will be headed to the control room in about 45min. I hope a contractor comes in needing a permit or a sniff for a vessel entry while I'm frying breakfast. I love to rip a contractors arse to start the day off..
Posted on 6/3/17 at 5:26 am to Jpeazyy
The best way to get hired at a plant is to be a good cook. Them boys like to eat good out there.
Posted on 6/3/17 at 5:39 am to Jpeazyy
Work on your mechanical aptitude if you haven't had much experience working on stuff. A lot of it seems like common sense but you'd be surprised how many people have never used a pipe wrench or had to run a piece of tubing. We have people with all types of degrees. A few that didn't pan out actually had 4 year degrees but always did office type work before and couldn't understand how stuff worked. And they weren't stupid people, they just couldn't picture in their mind what was going on.
Posted on 6/3/17 at 6:53 am to DupontsCircle
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Louisiana plants ain't no place for book lernin
Posted on 6/3/17 at 7:39 am to SouthTiger504
I work in a coal fired power plant. The past several years I have seen guys hire on in the coal yard or something, then in a couple years transfer to operations or maintenance. Obama killed this plant though. It's having to abandon coal by the end of next year. Seeing tons of really really good jobs go out. Since I have no attachments to the town I'm in here in Oklahoma, i'm taking a transfer to our other coal plant (2hrs away) that is putting on scrubbers. It will be safe 30+ years. They are giving me a pretty good move package though. My wife is going to come there on the weekends and after she gets an opening for her job she will be there full time. The house here will be easy to sale.
Posted on 6/3/17 at 7:57 am to SaltyNutSnack
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I work in a coal fired power plant.
I know a little about that
Used to work in Ops at a refinery. I sure do miss chem/refinery work. Think I was half crazy for leaving.
Posted on 6/3/17 at 8:10 am to Jpeazyy
Can you check other on your application?
Posted on 6/3/17 at 8:15 am to Arkapigdiesel
I am an I&C tech. Some days I wake up and I wonder why I ever got in this line of work. And especially I wonder when I'm called out at 2am on a Saturday or Sunday. LoL. Overall though it's been a really great career with good pay, benefits, &etc.
Posted on 6/3/17 at 8:17 am to Jpeazyy
Gas fired Steam turbine power plant here. High school degree and a little bit of ambition all that's needed.
Posted on 6/3/17 at 8:18 am to Jpeazyy
Learn to enjoy working weekends, holidays, nights and multiple days or weeks in a row with no time off.
Good money and good benefits.
Apply to as many as you can. Take any job offered and work your way up.
Good money and good benefits.
Apply to as many as you can. Take any job offered and work your way up.
Posted on 6/3/17 at 8:26 am to Jpeazyy
The last 4 hires have been Ptech degrees, the plants I've been in didn't have a large turnover
Posted on 6/3/17 at 9:05 am to SouthTiger504
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This is not true at all. Maybe 10 years ago but today its almost a negative. The big companies are pushing against this at the corporate level.
Only way it helps is if you land an interview and your contact is friends with someone on the interview panel. This still only guarantees 1 of the 5 interviewers will grade you well.
And it's still up to your resume and testing skills just to get you to the interview process.
This is correct. I'm an operator going on 3 years now. I enjoy what i do. I knew NO ONE at the plant I was hired and got on with experience and school alone.
I'm not going to sit here and brag about my job or what I make, butnit is kind of funny to see people in completely different fields talk about how things work in control rooms and have never stepped foot in one. I enjoy these threads. There's one every few months and the same ole posters come out and crack the same old jokes. The first two replies in this thread were like clockwork. Same exact responses every time.
With all that said, I'm going back to sleep. I have lunch to cook later. No permits today because there's no maintenance or contractors out here today.
Posted on 6/3/17 at 9:14 am to fightin tigers
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The interesting trend are plants/refineries moving away from strict Ptech only hiring. I think they found it polluting the culture that had proven successful. The last pool of ops that came in with Ptech degrees actually were capped. "We have enough candidates with Ptech degrees, let's look at ones that don't"
Our HR people has flat out said that they will only be hiring candidates with PTech WITH experience in industry. Not just the degree. I got my PTech in '14 but also had 14 years as a contractor from helper in the field to admin (Controller).
I'm in Lake Charles and there will be a ton of operators being hired on in the next few years. It was stagnant for a while, but I hear people being hired left and right because Sasol hired a ton. I'm fairly sure it'll become stagnant again, but there are MULTIPLE plants being built in this area between now and 2021 so the work will be here. People will have to be patient.
There was just ANOTHER project approved for this area that's BIGGER than Sasol, so again, there will be opportunities in the next few years.
Cameron G2 Project estimated to be $23B
Posted on 6/3/17 at 10:12 am to Jpeazyy
Man I get so dehydrated this time of year pulling long hours in that nomex suit
Posted on 6/3/17 at 10:16 am to NoHill2High
You should check out that IV hydration place out on Coursey
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