James_O

Hi, new to the forum. My family and I are possibly looking to move to Germany. My wife has family there.
I was wondering if anyone can give me advice regarding work. Currently I work in the UK as a gas central heating engineer and have done for 11 years. Can anyone tell me if there is much demand for this sort of work in Germany and if so what would I need to do transfer my U.K. Qualifications over?

Tia
James

scot47

German Language skills are crucial.

Angela Antonia

Hi,


Here is a quick job search:

Infoquest GmbH

Thairetired2016

Plenty of work in this field. But you need to learn German. I can't help with your question about qualifications. To start with you probably have to work alongside a German colleague.
I would google which companies are in the area you plan to settle. Then make contact to see about vacancies.

Lew354

On your first point, the language skills, I agree with the others here. They'll be necessary for your line of work because you will need to be conversant with colleagues who will not be fluent in English. Maybe with customers as well. (I've been lucky in this respect. I haven't needed them for mine because I work for a US multinational and the language used is English. We have colleagues in other parts of Europe with whom we have online meetings and they don't speak German.)

On your second point, about being married to a German national (or who is related to Germans), I have a British colleague with a German wife for many years. They have a few children born in UK and they all moved to Germany some years ago. He has now been awarded German citizenship (which kicks in in a few months). But he has not had to renounce his British citizenship. He can have dual nationality.