Brendan-Amy

Hi all,
I'm wondering if anyone can help me, myself, my partner and our son will be making the move to Perth in mid to late April this year once I've finished my 22 years service with the British Army. Does anyone know any good Fibre optic installation companies within the Perth area? I just need some ideas as to where I can fire my CV off to.
Many thanks

Brendan

Brendan-Amy

Or any Telephone/ Broadband installation over copper

IvanM

Look up NBN and see who is cabling your area.

Brendan-Amy

Cheers buddy, I've looked at NBN before but the jobs they had in the perth area didn't seem to fit my skill set.

IvanM

NBN hire other companies to do the cabling. See who has the contract in your area. Another option is to look at electrical companies such a iPower who also do data cabling and other work.

Brendan-Amy

Cheers mate

bumble69

www.visionstream.com.au are headquartered in Melbourne but do work all over the place including Perth. One of their streams is fibre optics and they are involved in NBN.

Also Telstra, obviously - at one time VisionStream were a subsidiary.

Amazulu

Plenty of work installing FO on minesites during construction. Everything we design now involves FO and we lay shitloads of the stuff.

Brendan-Amy

Intrinsically safe! I didn't really think of the mining side to be honest, thanks! What's the salary like?

Amazulu

If he is qualified and experienced and can work with control and comms systems, then the salary can be very good - $125k to whatever. Remember though that the work can be tough, as is the environment, hours are long - as is the time spent away from home. Saying that, mine camps are now very pleasant places to stay and the food is good. Some of the newer camps are like resorts - and I'm not joking.

Brendan-Amy

Cheers buddy, ive PMd you

sonlymewalter

Our dongas have a toilet and shower room and the boys were saying they prefer them to staying in a hotel

The_Pom_From_Aus

Brendan-Amy;

you shall need a fibre optic license mate before your allowed to do any work for any company, so have a look at the local Tafe (College) in the area you intend to live in & do there 3 day course for the full fibre optic license then you can apply for work in your own field

sonlymewalter

APLNG project is also using shit loads of FOC

Brendan-Amy

Cheers mate I didn't know that, I'll look into it. My mum works at UWA in Perth so I'll see what she can find out for me.

Appreciated

Brendan