Perth company looking to open up an office in the UK
Jul 23rd 2011, 1:19 am
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Re: Perth company looking to open up an office in the UK
Like I said champster, I dunno if it is easier here, but it's very easy over there.
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Jul 23rd 2011, 1:21 am
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Jul 23rd 2011, 1:21 am
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Sounds like a very good idea to me, They can recruit from all over the EU, so a very large pool of very qualified people to choose from. You often talk of the incredibly high salaries being offered in Perth, so this also makes sense to move to an area with a cheaper cost base. If they do it right they could do very well out of it.
Jul 23rd 2011, 1:23 am
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If I didn't know better
....I would suggest this is simply another 'uber' transparent dig at the UK and it's economy
....I would suggest this is simply another 'uber' transparent dig at the UK and it's economy
Jul 23rd 2011, 1:29 am
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If you are 'uber' sensitive, like you are, about anything to do with the UK then it is. For everyone else, the thread is for information and debate only.
Jul 23rd 2011, 1:32 am
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Jul 23rd 2011, 1:36 am
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I like Brits, but have no time for whinging Poms.
Everything you need to know about me and this topic is in those 2 sentences.
This thread was for info and debate only but think whatever you want to think, a shit is not being given.
Jul 23rd 2011, 8:20 am
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Re: Perth company looking to open up an office in the UK
Just bumped into an ex-colleague who is now quite senior at Calibre Projects, which is a Perth-based mining EPCM company. They are looking into opening a design office in the UK, probably in the Reading/Thames Valley area, as engineers and designers are cheap as chips over there compared to Australia, and plenty available (unlike Perth). Also easier and cheaper to close up and sack if/when exchange rate goes back the other way or work dries up.
Probably not a good idea overall, as major design outsourcing always ends in tears - no matter where it is done. Skill shortage is really hurting engineering in Perth though.
Probably not a good idea overall, as major design outsourcing always ends in tears - no matter where it is done. Skill shortage is really hurting engineering in Perth though.
Ability of the people employed will be secondary to the fact that the company can save a packet by employing overseas. Current exchange conditions and the availability of skilled staff, makes the UK a very sensible place to be employing professionals.
If engineers in Perth, are being paid anything like the rates being bandied about, then companies with any sort of global footprint, would be bloody stupid to keep employing staff there.
Jul 23rd 2011, 8:35 am
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Re: Perth company looking to open up an office in the UK
Just bumped into an ex-colleague who is now quite senior at Calibre Projects, which is a Perth-based mining EPCM company. They are looking into opening a design office in the UK, probably in the Reading/Thames Valley area, as engineers and designers are cheap as chips over there compared to Australia, and plenty available (unlike Perth). Also easier and cheaper to close up and sack if/when exchange rate goes back the other way or work dries up.
Probably not a good idea overall, as major design outsourcing always ends in tears - no matter where it is done. Skill shortage is really hurting engineering in Perth though.
Probably not a good idea overall, as major design outsourcing always ends in tears - no matter where it is done. Skill shortage is really hurting engineering in Perth though.
Jul 23rd 2011, 9:15 am
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Re: Perth company looking to open up an office in the UK
We will just start seeing what we have seen with most other industries here, it will be moved offshore. As you say it makes no sense to pay silly money here.
Welcome to the world of IT.
Ability of the people employed will be secondary to the fact that the company can save a packet by employing overseas. Current exchange conditions and the availability of skilled staff, makes the UK a very sensible place to be employing professionals.
If engineers in Perth, are being paid anything like the rates being bandied about, then companies with any sort of global footprint, would be bloody stupid to keep employing staff there.
Ability of the people employed will be secondary to the fact that the company can save a packet by employing overseas. Current exchange conditions and the availability of skilled staff, makes the UK a very sensible place to be employing professionals.
If engineers in Perth, are being paid anything like the rates being bandied about, then companies with any sort of global footprint, would be bloody stupid to keep employing staff there.
Jul 23rd 2011, 9:17 am
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Re: Perth company looking to open up an office in the UK
Currently an Offshore Structural Designer (can't comment on Engineers as I don't know) could earn roughly 50 GBP an hour in London. Here in Perth the going rate would be roughly mid 90 Australian Dollars. Not much in it really.
Jul 23rd 2011, 10:58 am
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Re: Perth company looking to open up an office in the UK
Wow ..... so let me get this straight, .... for all Perth has to offer, big wages, great beaches, fabulous lifestyle, there are no no takers?! WOT!
LOL, perhaps Perth has priced itself out along with almost every other industry here.
Time you got with the program Amazulu and realised what is REALLY GOING on in Perth and Australia.
LOL, perhaps Perth has priced itself out along with almost every other industry here.
Time you got with the program Amazulu and realised what is REALLY GOING on in Perth and Australia.
Jul 24th 2011, 5:04 am
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Re: Perth company looking to open up an office in the UK
Simple economics? This has been going on for a long time now, Gorgon & Browse LNG rigs are being designed in London, Pluto had a lot of it's design done in Reading, there's a huge skills base there with a competative wage structure. It's nothing sinister other than what has been going on in other parts of the world for years, just now the pound has made the UK an attractive place to outsource for certain industries. It can only be of a benefit to the UK, so your comment is really quite odd.