I've been a multi craft electrician for the past 3.5 years @$29/hr I applied at the best plant around here and after three months I have a start date(I&E Mechanic). I haven't done instrumentation in 6 years, but they're okay with that and it starts @49/hr which is insane pay scale for my area. Crazy nervous/excited for a proper job so we'll find out in three weeks how she goes!
That is pretty nutty congratulations I'm really happy for you. Some people don't really understand how much of a shortage there is right now anyways I'm sure you'll do great if you're good at doing industrial maintenance. If you ever have any questions find me on LinkedIn send me a message and I'll answer as fast as I can I'm really happy for you
Honestly the fact that you're an i&e mechanic makes it sound like you're not even going to have much of an issue I would have to guess. Just make sure you understand ladder logic, have a base knowledge of what vfds are know all the basics of electrical theory like how to check fuses stuff like that hopefully you're up to date on reading schematics and understand the difference between like 4 to 20 and 0 to 10 v signals. If you've been fixing machines for 3 and 1/2 years I'm sure you'll be a rockstar congratulations man that's awesome
@@gregroche7323 thank you sir yeah where I'm currently at most of our schematics are useless because of changes that weren't updated. So plenty of tracing wiring and checking physical issues out but I'm ready for a change to have resources lol
Yeah I feel that that's pretty much what my first instrumentation electrical tech job was.. we had a lot of automated systems that were out of date and not updated. I would say half of our panels didn't even have any schematics it's a great learning opportunity I'm sure you'll be great did you start the job yet? By the way I'm always looking for new video ideas I actually just got monetized which is pretty cool I've made $5 in the last 4 days LOL for my UA-cam channel
@@gregroche7323 I start on the 28th from what I've heard talking to people that work there everything has schematics and plenty of parts to work with. Yeah I came across your videos and will continue to watch them as I see them upload it's helpful sir
I'll tell you what buddy I really don't know ... I have worked with one person that had a sponsorship from a different country, he worked at a big company with me as an electrical instrumentation technicians and he was from South America. A lot of engineers here are Middle Eastern or Indian I'm not sure if they have visas. I really should research this issue and make a video about it, I just genuinely don't know. If you want you can make a LinkedIn profile and my suggestion would be make a resume that is similar to what people's resumes look like in the United States and reach out to recruiters for technical jobs in the US. Tell them about your situation and ask if any of them can help. If you want you can search my name with the word automation on LinkedIn and you can ask me more questions on there if you want
@@flboiy8503 well I set him like six or seven resumes couple months back as far as I know none of them took the job.... But yeah I can reach out still. He's a recruiter for technical industrial jobs all around the United States.. message me on LinkedIn I can forward your information
I've been a multi craft electrician for the past 3.5 years @$29/hr I applied at the best plant around here and after three months I have a start date(I&E Mechanic). I haven't done instrumentation in 6 years, but they're okay with that and it starts @49/hr which is insane pay scale for my area. Crazy nervous/excited for a proper job so we'll find out in three weeks how she goes!
That is pretty nutty congratulations I'm really happy for you. Some people don't really understand how much of a shortage there is right now anyways I'm sure you'll do great if you're good at doing industrial maintenance. If you ever have any questions find me on LinkedIn send me a message and I'll answer as fast as I can I'm really happy for you
Honestly the fact that you're an i&e mechanic makes it sound like you're not even going to have much of an issue I would have to guess. Just make sure you understand ladder logic, have a base knowledge of what vfds are know all the basics of electrical theory like how to check fuses stuff like that hopefully you're up to date on reading schematics and understand the difference between like 4 to 20 and 0 to 10 v signals. If you've been fixing machines for 3 and 1/2 years I'm sure you'll be a rockstar congratulations man that's awesome
@@gregroche7323 thank you sir yeah where I'm currently at most of our schematics are useless because of changes that weren't updated. So plenty of tracing wiring and checking physical issues out but I'm ready for a change to have resources lol
Yeah I feel that that's pretty much what my first instrumentation electrical tech job was.. we had a lot of automated systems that were out of date and not updated. I would say half of our panels didn't even have any schematics it's a great learning opportunity I'm sure you'll be great did you start the job yet? By the way I'm always looking for new video ideas I actually just got monetized which is pretty cool I've made $5 in the last 4 days LOL for my UA-cam channel
@@gregroche7323 I start on the 28th from what I've heard talking to people that work there everything has schematics and plenty of parts to work with. Yeah I came across your videos and will continue to watch them as I see them upload it's helpful sir
Is it possible to get sopnsered, am from iraq (Electrical Engineer)
I'll tell you what buddy I really don't know ... I have worked with one person that had a sponsorship from a different country, he worked at a big company with me as an electrical instrumentation technicians and he was from South America. A lot of engineers here are Middle Eastern or Indian I'm not sure if they have visas. I really should research this issue and make a video about it, I just genuinely don't know. If you want you can make a LinkedIn profile and my suggestion would be make a resume that is similar to what people's resumes look like in the United States and reach out to recruiters for technical jobs in the US. Tell them about your situation and ask if any of them can help. If you want you can search my name with the word automation on LinkedIn and you can ask me more questions on there if you want
@@gregroche7323 thanks man, I thought you were a recruiter for some organization, I will do what you said
@haval00 no I'm not, I know a lot of recruiters though
Is this still ongoing?
@@flboiy8503 well I set him like six or seven resumes couple months back as far as I know none of them took the job.... But yeah I can reach out still. He's a recruiter for technical industrial jobs all around the United States.. message me on LinkedIn I can forward your information
I’m in CT looking for a job. I will try to contact you on LinkedIn
@@RK-ox2zp copy that I can forward your info, last time I talked to my buddy I don't remember if you had any jobs in ct, he may have