Avionics technician/aircraft electrician
Mar 10th 2008, 11:34 am
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Lossiepickle, are you at Lossiemouth?
Mar 10th 2008, 11:39 am
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Mar 10th 2008, 7:26 pm
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Mar 10th 2008, 7:56 pm
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Mar 10th 2008, 8:01 pm
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Hi,
I work as an Avionics Design Engineer at a RAAF base near Sydney. If its any help I've heard the job market is extremely good for your area with loads in demand.
Suggestions I would have would be Brisbane airport for all the usual suspects (Qantas, JetStar, Virgin Blue etc) (sorry fairly obvious suggestion I'm sure!!!)
But also RAAF Base Amberley is about 50km south of Brisbane there are civilian companies that do support contracts there.... these are Qantas Defence Services (http://www.qds.qantas.com.au) who I believe will do A330 tankers there and other options being Boeing and Tenix in support of the fast jets. Hope this helps
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Martin
I work as an Avionics Design Engineer at a RAAF base near Sydney. If its any help I've heard the job market is extremely good for your area with loads in demand.
Suggestions I would have would be Brisbane airport for all the usual suspects (Qantas, JetStar, Virgin Blue etc) (sorry fairly obvious suggestion I'm sure!!!)
But also RAAF Base Amberley is about 50km south of Brisbane there are civilian companies that do support contracts there.... these are Qantas Defence Services (http://www.qds.qantas.com.au) who I believe will do A330 tankers there and other options being Boeing and Tenix in support of the fast jets. Hope this helps
cheers
Martin
Mar 10th 2008, 8:04 pm
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Re: Avionics technician/aircraft electrician
Basic hours where Steve and my hubby work are 7.30am - 3.30pm Monday to Thursday and 7.30am to 1pm Fridays (38 hours). My hubby usually works average of about 10 hours a week overtime and for that he takes home around $1050 per week. To give you an idea of outgoings then - we put $500 per week towards our bills which includes everything (phone, gas, elec, rent, insurances, broadband etc etc etc) apart from groceries and petrol. Add around $175 per week for groceries and $50 per week petrol and you'd be about right. So a total of $725 outgoings a week would be about average. Obviously you then need to find some spending money from somewhere!!!! Its pretty tight to be honest.
Mar 10th 2008, 8:16 pm
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Are the Jags still there?
Still got a few mates in and they have said its all changed, you have something called the "Harrier force" now
Mar 10th 2008, 8:38 pm
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Yep they are good hours - but for working the BASIC hours he'd take home around $750 a week - leaving us with absolutely NO money left over. At the mo he leaves at 6.30am and gets home at 6.15pm Monday to Thursday - sometimes he finishes at 3pm on Fridays (which then totals up the 10 hours overtimes) but sometimes he works on until 5pm.
Mar 10th 2008, 8:40 pm
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Mar 10th 2008, 9:18 pm
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No, you don't always need PR. Many of the guys here are ex-RAF and were sponsored by the company on a 457 Temp Visa. Almost all get their PR within the first year or so. The UK security clearance does not count for anything but (here at least) the 457 Visa or PR plus a company police check is sufficient. All that said, there are many defence positions advertised where citizenship is a prerequisite.
Mar 10th 2008, 9:20 pm
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No, you don't always need PR. Many of the guys here are ex-RAF and were sponsored by the company on a 457 Temp Visa. Almost all get their PR within the first year or so. The UK security clearance does not count for anything but (here at least) the 457 Visa or PR plus a company police check is sufficient. All that said, there are many defence positions advertised where citizenship is a prerequisite.
Mar 10th 2008, 9:31 pm
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Thanks for the info.
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Mar 10th 2008, 9:46 pm
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That's took a lot of worrk from my mind as I've been warned off pursuing the 457 route but if getting PR within a year is realistic then I can start looking to companies offering it.I did E-mail quantas who told me they would only consider me if I got a visa first but I've got an expo in london this weekend so maybe I might get lucky lol.
Thanks for the info.
dave
Thanks for the info.
dave
I know that the QDS website (http://www.qds.qantas.com.au) says that PR is a requirement but as you'll notice from many of the comments on here, it is not unusual for them to sponsor qualified people with experience on type.
Mar 10th 2008, 9:46 pm
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That's took a lot of worrk from my mind as I've been warned off pursuing the 457 route but if getting PR within a year is realistic then I can start looking to companies offering it.I did E-mail quantas who told me they would only consider me if I got a visa first but I've got an expo in london this weekend so maybe I might get lucky lol.
Thanks for the info.
dave
Thanks for the info.
dave
But if you get your PR visa I'm pretty sure you'd have no problems getting a job over here if you have the right qualifications.