Engineer Looking to Travel

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I am an electrical engineer with a passion for travel and to experience new places. I would like to somehow find a way to combine my career in engineering with being able to see the world. I was looking for suggestions as to what type of job would allow traveling to different areas around the world. I am open to almost any opportunity.

My experience is mostly in the industrial maintnance, and industrial constuction arena. I am currently involved with building a new cement plant and have found it to be a valuable experience and have also found it to be something that I enjoy and would like to pursue. I was hoping to combine this experience with international travel and wanted to see what kind of opportunities were avaliable in this field. I would appreciate any suggestions as to where I can start researching such a career.
 
I would like to try something similar in the future as a soon-to-be journeyman electrician. I test on Tuesday.;)

This is about the only site I've found that shows traveling job postings:

www.roadtechs.com

You may be able to find a company to get on with that has what you're looking for.
 
Just remember that electrical codes and practices in other countries are very different. I once worked for a poco on the Mexican border, we were tied into CFE's system. It was an "interesting" situation to say the least. They do things differently, not saying it is better or worse, just different.
 
Join the US Navy Construction Battalion aka The SeaBees.

Travel for sure. Construction for sure. Probably learn a lot about the world.

Since you already have a degree I think you go in as an officer or officer candidate but not sure about that.

The Navy reserve may have an opportunity as well. YouTube has some Seebea vids on there if you want to look.

http://youtube.com/watch?v=_04mV0VI_dA&feature=user
 
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mull982 said:
I am an electrical engineer with a passion for travel and to experience new places. I would like to somehow find a way to combine my career in engineering with being able to see the world. I was looking for suggestions as to what type of job would allow traveling to different areas around the world. I am open to almost any opportunity.

My experience is mostly in the industrial maintnance, and industrial constuction arena. I am currently involved with building a new cement plant and have found it to be a valuable experience and have also found it to be something that I enjoy and would like to pursue. I was hoping to combine this experience with international travel and wanted to see what kind of opportunities were avaliable in this field. I would appreciate any suggestions as to where I can start researching such a career.
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Wow, are you ever valuable, I finally chaged jobs to get away from travel, 14 years worth of traveling somewhere different every week burns you out. The testing field is in need of engineers willing to travel all over the place, you wont have any problems finding a good job.

Where do you want home base to be? I can probally give you some places to call.
 
Government contractors are always looking for engineers to work on projects for the armed forces. Both of my sons are electrical engineers working for government contractors and my wife is an engineer with a government job. Many of these jobs include travel. My oldest son was in Europe 6 times last year.
 
mull982 said:
I am an electrical engineer with a passion for travel and to experience new places. I would like to somehow find a way to combine my career in engineering with being able to see the world. I was looking for suggestions as to what type of job would allow traveling to different areas around the world. I am open to almost any opportunity.

My experience is mostly in the industrial maintnance, and industrial constuction arena. I am currently involved with building a new cement plant and have found it to be a valuable experience and have also found it to be something that I enjoy and would like to pursue. I was hoping to combine this experience with international travel and wanted to see what kind of opportunities were avaliable in this field. I would appreciate any suggestions as to where I can start researching such a career.
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A good place to look would be companies like GE, Siemens, Toshiba, etc. who make turbines (steam, combustion, wind, etc.) as they also provide installation, start-up services, retro-fit as well as other stuff. The jobs will literally take you all over the world.

Then there are also large engineering companies like Bechtel, Fluor, as well as others that do oversees projects. In this day and age, travel oversees for engineers is pretty easy if your worth your salt. Make sure you know what the going rate is before agreeing to go, and get it all in writing. I know plenty of people that feel they got the shaft because companies failed to deliver on promises, that weren't in writing.

Contract work is also good for travel, I've known guys that worked through Penpower.
 
Thanks for all of the responses, I'm going to check into some of those leads.

Right now I am living in North Florida and would prefer somewhere in Florida to be my homebase, but I am open to pretty much any opportunity that arises.
 
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Join the US Navy Construction Battalion aka The SeaBees.

Travel for sure. Construction for sure. Probably learn a lot about the world.

Since you already have a degree I think you go in as an officer or officer candidate but not sure about that.

The Navy reserve may have an opportunity as well. YouTube has some Seebea vids on there if you want to look.

http://youtube.com/watch?v=_04mV0VI_dA&feature=user
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The SEABEES have been out sourced in AROCK
 
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There are lots of privately owned A/E firms looking for test, commissioning, and project engineers. Then there are the big boys in desperate need of engineers looking to travel like Bechtel, Foster Wheeler, Fluor, McDermott, and Haliburton to name a few.
 
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