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Alberta chemical engineers

Halo helping guys,
Could anybody help me to find information about alberta province of securing the job in oil industry. Is it worth to migrate from other country to move over here.How is the job prospective for this chemical engineers?.The accomodation cost in alberta province is cheap or not.

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Originally posted by charan
Halo helping guys,
Could anybody help me to find information about alberta province of securing the job in oil industry. Is it worth to migrate from other country to move over here.How is the job prospective for this chemical engineers?.The accomodation cost in alberta province is cheap or not.

Chemical engineers in Alberta earn more money than you could imagine in your wildest dreams.

If you are able to get your qualifications recognized as a chemical engineer, your other questions will become irrelevent.

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The stumbling block is getting recognision from the professional engineering body in Alberta APPEGA

http://www.apegga.com/

Without recognission, you will have a very hard time getting a job in Chem Eng in Alberta, and there is a nasty catch 22 requirement of canadian experience required to get PEng Status, and PEng status to get a job.

You can read all about it on any number of threads in the archives here.

You will probably at the very least be required to find work as an intern (low $) to get experience in canada. Problem is there are not enough internships to cover new canadian graduates, let alone incoming skilled workers. It is tough to get on the first rung of the ladder in canada, hence many experienced (but not in canada) engineers and PhDs driving Taxis and delivering pizzas.

Good Luck

Iain

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Charan

The profession of engineer is regulated in Canada. It is illegal to practise the profession of engineer or to use the title "engineer" without being licensed as a full member in a provincial or territorial association. However, individuals can do engineering work under the direct supervision of licensed engineers.

Therefore, once you know where you will settle and work in Canada, you should contact the appropriate provincial or territorial association for details on licensure procedures. Below is an address of the provincial and territorial associations of professional engineers.

Canadian Council of Professional Engineers (CCPE)
180 Elgin Street, Suite 1100
Ottawa ON K2P 2K3 Canada
Tel.: (613) 232-2474
Fax: (613) 230-5759
Email: [email protected]
http://www.ccpe.ca/

you can obtain an assessment of your engineering qualifications prior to your arrival from the Canadian Council of Professional Engineers (CCPE), hope that helps in answering your question?

cheers

Re: Alberta chemical engineers

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Originally posted by gunner
Charan

The profession of engineer is regulated in Canada. It is illegal to practise the profession of engineer or to use the title "engineer" without being licensed as a full member in a provincial or territorial association. However, individuals can do engineering work under the direct supervision of licensed engineers.

Therefore, once you know where you will settle and work in Canada, you should contact the appropriate provincial or territorial association for details on licensure procedures. Below is an address of the provincial and territorial associations of professional engineers.

Canadian Council of Professional Engineers (CCPE)
180 Elgin Street, Suite 1100
Ottawa ON K2P 2K3 Canada
Tel.: (613) 232-2474
Fax: (613) 230-5759
Email: [email protected]
http://www.ccpe.ca/

you can obtain an assessment of your engineering qualifications prior to your arrival from the Canadian Council of Professional Engineers (CCPE), hope that helps in answering your question?

cheers

My experience of coming to canada as a skilled worker in engineering was that my qualifications had to be recognised by CCPE anyway as part of the immigration process.

It is worth noting that recognision by CCPE in itself does not mean your qualifications will be recognised in the employment marketplace. Canadian employers of engineers are very keen to see some canadian work experience.

Gunner is right, there are a lot of engineers working in canada in engineering functions who are not PEngs, but to practice as a Chemical Engineer in Alberta, you will see that every job advertised on Monster or Workopolis specifies APEGGA membership or similar (ie transferable canadian PEng status) required, which means going through the hassle of 2 years of experience under a canadian PEng. I guess what I am saying is it is unlikely you will be able to come to Alberta and start as a Chem Eng straight away. It will be hard at first to get a low level position.

Iain