trevfitz

Hi Guys im looking for some help related to work in Brisbane for a gas engineer.
Is there much work in Brisbane for a gas engineer?
Can i work self employed when i arrive?
Whats the average wage per year as an employed gas fitter?
Whats the average hourly rate?
Im also a Plumber would there be more demand for that?

Thanking you all for your replies in advance


Fitzpatrick Family

Also one other silly question, Are spiders and insects really as bad in Brisbane as my wife keeps making out to me? She is worried about our kids coming in touch with these types of things?????

Thanks again.

Dorothy

Answers in red above.

Rossi

Apologies to Dorothy but I am / was a gas service engineer/ Anglian Water Approved plumber before I moved here

You may want to do a search on gasfitting on here

Dorothy

Don't apologise Rossi. I don't even know what a gas engineer is

trevfitz

Thanks guys

So Rossi i take it you were corgi before making the move to oz? are you still involved in the plumbing trade out there?

I pretty much thought that due to the weather in oz that heating is used very little.
What in our line of work would you recommend that would give me a good start to life in oz?

Air con?

the plumber

I came over here as a fully qualified gas and oil engineer also city and guilds plumber....
There is some gas work here.....mostly instantaneous gas water heaters , but all in all not a lot.
if you had asked me about the work situation 9mths ago ....i'd of said plenty....but now it looks like its fell off a cliff.

all the best plumb.....

Rossi

Similar kind of work........... Cryogenics & Industrial gases - oxygen, nitrogen, argon etc.

I mentioned it in a previous post - it's such a specialised field that there aren't a lot doing it.

I would recommend ... Beer plumbing..... carbon dioxide systems / regulator servicing etc. AS5034 ( the new dispensing gas standard recommends servicing 6 & 12 monthly) there isn't enough people doing it

calNgary

I would check out what licence you need to work i think you will find you will need to get an ozzy licence before you can start working self employed or unsupervised sorry if iam wrong about this but dont want you to arrive then not be able to work. good luck with your trip

betsyboob

Hi,
OH is a plumber and we have been here 6 months and no luck with work yet, just the odd private job.
There are jobs advertised online but you will never hear anything from them, some are agencies looking for people to get n their books, others are gone before they hit the press.

You need to contact the Plumbers and drainage board QLD and get a provisional license, you can do this before you arrive, this will allow you to work as a plumb and gasfitter but only under someone that has a full license -so you can't work self employed or sub-contract. When you arrive you can do a course that will give you a full license but it will take 6 - 12months - it is $4000 for plumb, drains and gas available at Tafe and skillstech, but once you have the license you don't need to renew it and you are then able to go SE and subbie.

Plumbers get between $20 - 30hr, so yes not much more than a coles employee, although when you are SE you can charge around $70/80hr.

The bugs aren't as bad as you may imagine, we have a 4yr and 2yr old and we have had no probs, it's the jelly fish you want to worry about! No, seriously, you will be fine.

The prob with jobs at the mo is that with so many people out of work there are hundreds of applicants for 1job, and being new with no Oz experience and only a prov license it is really hard. I hope you have more luck than we did Goodluck with the move.

calNgary

A plumber that we supplied short term accom for when he first arrived is doing the full licence but cant start until May he dosnt need to pay the $4000 dont no how long this offer is on

trevfitz

Thats a great help thank you all very much

jayr

Just to note, there is a very low proportion of the Brisbane poulation with reticualted domestic gas supplies.

There is little call for gas-space heating in QLD, most wull use reverse cycle air con or oil filled standalone radiators.

Given the lack of demand for space heating it is relatively uneconomic to provide reticualted gas supplies as the only other use is for cooking. Many who prefer to use gas fro cooking therefore have LPG bottles delivered.

There are about 170,000 households in Brisbane who have reticlated gas. Main suppliers (if I remember correctly) are AGL and Origin Energy.

betsyboob

I don't suppose you could find out more about this as i think that there are a few of us that would be interested

betsyboob

Or is that just plumb & drain which is $2,570??

OzzieGunner

Why dont you move to Melbourne almost fully reticulated and 80% of homes use gas for heating cooking and water heating.