This week, I decided to examine some of the different positions available to those within the industry. The best way to do this, I concluded, was to simply browse the available jobs on the internet. I found that there is a vast variety in the positions available to those wishing to enter the industry, which is unsurprising. From an entry level drilling job where which is advertised as “outdoors, noisy, at heights, dangerous” to an engineering job where one is required to “provide process engineering support for capital projects and process safety improvements”. People with all variety of skills and experience are needed to fill the vast amount of labor and knowledge needed to keep the energy market going. As I do not wish to be an engineer or a driller, I began looking in the executive jobs.
On the first website that I searched there were over 1400 executive jobs available in the United States. They range from Project Manager, who is in charge of creating budgets and managing teams of engineers, to Sales Associates, who are in charge of ensuring that the companies get the highest amount of money for their product. There seems to be pretty much every conceivable job available for those that wish to work within the industry. I am curious how the nature of careers in the energy industry are being affected by the increasing demand for renewable energy.
http://careers.infooil.com
http://careers.infooil.com/fx/jobs/listings/1.346856/optimization.process.engineer.aspx
This is an extremely different approach to the blog and I find it quite interesting. I think that you have found an interesting way to look at employment trends in the oil industry. From this post I was able to glean that there seems to be an abundance of jobs in the energy industry. Where there openings particular to any particular company or were they fairly constant across a range of companies? If it is the latter, what is this saying about employment trends in the industry? How has employment in the energy industry been since the various oil and energy catastrophes?
ReplyDeleteI have a cousin who is a mechanical engineer Calgary and he and I have been discussing this same topic. He agrees that there are so many different positions that need to be filled in the business energy industry. We also discussed the job openings within companies and we are also curious to know about the particular job openings.
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