Energy Careers   by Mark Winn

in Careers    (submitted 2011-02-23)

A web site that I’ve visited while researching careers in energy posed this question: “looking for the job of your dreams?” Wow. How did they know? Seriously, they make it sound like this is what you’ve been waiting your whole life for. So of course, I had to delve further into the site to see what all the hubbub was about.

What Do You Want To Be when You Grow Up?
Among the dream jobs listed were mechanical and piping engineering manager, reservoir engineer, project development engineer and of course, operations engineer. So you’re an engineer! Actually those were just the ‘featured’ jobs. There may also be openings in the following categories:

• Professional services and information technology

• Exploration and production

• Chemical and petrochemical

• Power and utility

• Service & Equipment

• Refining and marketing

• Engineering, procurement and construction

• Gas gathering, processing and transportation

Apparently the oil industry is not cutting back as is the rest of the employment world. Just for fun, I clicked on the gas gathering, processing and transportation tab.

And What do We Have Here?
Again, these people are looking for someone with experience either in the processing, the collection of or the distribution of hydrocarbons. The candidates they seek must be highly skilled in those areas. Operations professionals and negotiators, process engineers, negotiators, planners and schedulers and pipeline engineers are some of the positions effectively handled by this particular website.

It seems that in the energy world, matching people with careers is dependent on their prior experience and training. As with so many other careers, college or technical school seems to be of the utmost importance. There are numerous technical training institutes that offer not only the high quality skills instruction that you will need, buy in some cases may assist you in placement upon completion of the necessary courses. We will always need energy, so we will more than likely always need the people to work with it.

About the Author

Mark is a journalist. He also helps people find careers. Namely Energy Careers in the Oil industry. Mark writes for the people and loves his wife.