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Old 07-19-2013, 01:11 PM
 
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I am on the exact same boat now. I have just moved to Houston, and looking for a job. I am also a civil Engineer with 6-8 years of experience. Any suggestions please!!

 
Old 07-19-2013, 02:02 PM
 
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I am on the exact same boat now. I have just moved to Houston, and looking for a job. I am also a civil Engineer with 6-8 years of experience. Any suggestions please!!
Oil and gas companies hire engineers but really want people to manage contractors who actually do the work or who can become either a technical guru for them or more likely a leader/supervisor/manager of their staff - good at training and mentoring the young engineers and operations types. If you do not have oil and gas operating company experience, you need to focus on service companies which includes engineering firms. Bechtel, Fluor, McDermott, Chicago Bridge and Iron, Technip Haliburton, Schlumberger are examples. If your engineering technical skills and resume do not work with these guys, go the NW part of Houston or around the ship channel and talk to some of the smaller engineering/service companies which may include pipe design etc. These jobs wont pay as well as the larger service companies nor as well as the oil and gas operating companies but you need to get a foot in the door and get oil field experience.

Another option is to look for contract work as an engineer. Search contract engineering jobs on InDeed and find the agencies with contract civl jobs and apply with them

Good luck!
 
Old 07-19-2013, 08:03 PM
 
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Hi to all,

I'm currently in the search of a job in Houston and I'm running out of options. I'm a Civil Engineer licensed in TX (PE) with 11 years of civil site design experience. I started submitting my resume EVERYWHERE I could, 4 weeks ago and so far the only call I've got is from Career Solutions (Houston) which I've read are a scam and only want me to pay $4,000 for them to "find" me a job. Don't worry I'm not stupid.

So, other than indeed, engineerjobs, careerbuilder, rigzone, monster where else could I look for a job. I've also noticed that many of the postings in these websites are recycled over and over. The same positions get posted week after week. I've submitted to many Fortune 500 companies I can think of in the area and smaller engineering firms as well.

I know that it has only been 4 weeks since I started submitting my resume, but somewhere I read that in Houston, if you can spell e-n-g-i-n-e-e-r you pretty much got a job. I must be doing something wrong cause' so far I've got no replys.

Any headhunters/recruiters that anyone has worked with and can recommend?

Thanks,

Dennis
What is your civil experience in? Is it in the O&G industry?? Successful CivEs in O&G go into Structural or Construction & Capital Project Management. Two very different but high potential career paths. Good luck.
 
Old 07-19-2013, 09:58 PM
 
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