Any major gas companies over in Oz?British gas engineer here looking to emigrate.
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Any major gas companies over in Oz?British gas engineer here looking to emigrate.
I have been considering moving to Australia for the past couple of years now.I have tried to do some research into natural gas companies over there,but can't really find much information.Is there an equivalent to British Gas over there?I am highly qualified in various areas,and have been fully trained up by British Gas,Any help would be greatly appreciated.Craig
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Re: Any major gas companies over in Oz?British gas engineer here looking to emigrate.
hi we have a friend living over here in queensland also worked for british gas for a long time in uk..the oz gov granted him a visa but when he got here wasnt allowed to do gas fitting without basically doin another apprentiship i.e four yrs of tafe study.
my advice would be to have a really good look into the regulations ect
my advice would be to have a really good look into the regulations ect
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Re: Any major gas companies over in Oz?British gas engineer here looking to emigrate.
I have been considering moving to Australia for the past couple of years now.I have tried to do some research into natural gas companies over there,but can't really find much information.Is there an equivalent to British Gas over there?I am highly qualified in various areas,and have been fully trained up by British Gas,Any help would be greatly appreciated.Craig
If you are an engineer then you can pretty much work without having to do any licencing or further training.
If you are a gas fitter/tradie then there will probably be many hoops to jump through before you could work here.
Good luck.
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Re: Any major gas companies over in Oz?British gas engineer here looking to emigrate.
I have been considering moving to Australia for the past couple of years now.I have tried to do some research into natural gas companies over there,but can't really find much information.Is there an equivalent to British Gas over there?I am highly qualified in various areas,and have been fully trained up by British Gas,Any help would be greatly appreciated.Craig
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Re: Any major gas companies over in Oz?British gas engineer here looking to emigrate.
I'm a gasfitter working in Brisbane/ Gold Coast areas, I should be able to answer any questions you may have from my experiences so far, I've been here just over a year, to get my gas licence I made an appointment with the Dept of Mines & Energy in Brisbane, showed my corgi card and qualifications and got a 1 year licence in Natural Gas, it did have an LPG restriction on it but this has now been lifted as I've done some supervised work on LPG appliances. I have heard a rumour that all new guys coming from overseas including the UK will have to a years course to get a licence, not sure how true this is. The gas licensing guys are nearly all British and recognise all experience done in UK, they are all ex British Gas like myself. There isn't an equivalent of BG here, the company I work for do all the service work for Origin who are the biggest gas supplier in QLD. If you have any questions I'll try and help out,
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Re: Any major gas companies over in Oz?British gas engineer here looking to emigrate.
Are you a professional engineer or a gas fitter? The reason I ask is that many people from the UK are called/call themselves engineers whereas in Australia they are not.
If you are an engineer then you can pretty much work without having to do any licencing or further training.
If you are a gas fitter/tradie then there will probably be many hoops to jump through before you could work here.
Good luck.
If you are an engineer then you can pretty much work without having to do any licencing or further training.
If you are a gas fitter/tradie then there will probably be many hoops to jump through before you could work here.
Good luck.