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re: Operator vs. Engineer?
Posted on 4/26/18 at 1:04 pm to mikelbr
Posted on 4/26/18 at 1:04 pm to mikelbr
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Or you gonna just let them think you're paid straight time for 40 and 1.5 for 10?
Thats how Im paid. I make straight time until Ive worked 40 hrs in the same week and 1.5 after. We dont get paid daily OT.
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Posted on 4/26/18 at 1:29 pm to heatom2
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Thats how Im paid. I make straight time until Ive worked 40 hrs in the same week and 1.5 after. We dont get paid daily OT.
Mayne, you missing out on the Union paycode hookups.
Two places I was at had Unions get their hourly guys this deal:
48 hours a week across 4 12s. Employee gets 4 hrs daily OT at 1.5 and 8 hours Weekly OT at 1.5 by contract in facilities.
This post was edited on 4/26/18 at 1:30 pm
Posted on 4/26/18 at 1:33 pm to Whoopdedo_LSU
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chemical engineer
Probably start out at 90k or so. That’s 40 hrs a wk no overtime and sitting in the office. More if they go out to the site and work from there.
Wife just changed careers becoming a chem Eng. She took a job at a plant making 90 with a 10% annual bonus.
Daddy's buying a boat!
This post was edited on 4/26/18 at 1:34 pm
Posted on 4/26/18 at 1:36 pm to Mingo Was His NameO
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About the same, but the engineer works 500 less hours and work 7-4.
Not during a turnaround.
Posted on 4/26/18 at 1:37 pm to bowlbound
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Where do the Petroleum Engineering folks fit in with all this? I'm specifically talking about those with the PE degree
We don’t work in refineries. Maybe some do but it’s not part of the curriculum. Once we sell the oil it’s not our problem anymore.
Posted on 4/28/18 at 8:24 pm to heatom2
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bullshite they don't. Depending on tnr plant/position they can work nights and weekends and earn no O
I don't know many engineers who work hourly. They may have to work long hours depending on what is going on but not many are hourly employees.....
Posted on 4/28/18 at 8:47 pm to DaBike
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I don't know many engineers who work hourly. They may have to work long hours depending on what is going on but not many are hourly employees.....
Well, this thread's back, but this just is not really true.
Engineers working for consulting EPC firms (a largish number in Baton Rouge) almost certainly work by the hour and get paid for every hour they work, but only make straight time past 40 hours (not time and a half), very similar to the way a staff attorney at a law firm would be paid.
Billable hours, mayne. I don't think they technically meet the Department of Labor's definition of hourly worker because they're overtime exempt due to the technical nature of their work, but they're most definitely not salaried because if they work 60 hours, they're paid for 60 hours.
This post was edited on 4/28/18 at 8:54 pm
Posted on 4/28/18 at 9:06 pm to GetmorewithLes
quote:I make $160k and no direct reports. The only part you are right about is the XP. 23 years.
No, they dont. Not until they get a lot of experience or responsibility.
Posted on 4/28/18 at 9:14 pm to Asharad
lol... someone downvoted 
Posted on 4/28/18 at 9:17 pm to Asharad
The operators are down voting me. smh
Posted on 4/28/18 at 9:21 pm to Asharad
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The operators are down voting me. smh
I'm downvoting you because you're bitching about being downvoted.
Posted on 4/28/18 at 9:39 pm to Upperdecker
working with consulting engineering i have the opportunities to pull in plenty of 1.5 OT hours by going out to various sites and working, but for most of the year i can just chill and work on my projects in an office 8 hours a day
i wouldn't stand working 60 hours a week all year long
i wouldn't stand working 60 hours a week all year long
Posted on 7/23/20 at 8:59 am to GetmorewithLes
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have Operators that make straight time $43 an hour working 12 hr shift. With OT for just covering vacations and other needs they easily make north of $150K
And, where would this be? How much experience? Sorry to revive a dead thread
Posted on 7/23/20 at 9:09 am to NOLAManBlog
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And, where would this be? How much experience? Sorry to revive a dead thread
My BIL works at Exxon, has less than 5 years of experience and claims to have made 150k last year. He did work 3000 hours though
Posted on 7/23/20 at 9:12 am to Croacka
MAINTENANCE?
Posted on 7/23/20 at 9:13 am to Tigeralum2008
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She took a job at a plant making 90 with a 10% annual bonus
pennies bro
Posted on 7/23/20 at 9:14 am to NOLAManBlog
What in the world
Posted on 7/23/20 at 9:15 am to Epic Cajun
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He did work 3000 hours though
I had an operator apply for a position with me last year. He was young and making good money but hated the hours because he was starting a family. I felt bad for him because he wasn't qualified for anything but being an operator, he was stuck where he was.
I would choose engineering over operator all day long.
Posted on 7/23/20 at 9:16 am to SouthTiger504
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The operator that sits next to me made $152k with 800hrs OT
Which plant is this.. name 2 wrong answers and a correct one if you want to conceal your identity
Posted on 7/23/20 at 9:18 am to NOLAManBlog
That is one hell of a bump on a two year old thread.
This post was edited on 7/23/20 at 10:06 am
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