Alberta oilfield driving jobs

I am a female who comes from an administrative background but am keenly interested in pursuing a position in Alberta in the oil fields. I have experience assisting general contractors. Do you see there being openings for someone in my position? Thank you.

 

I have seen females on lease working for Trican, Sanjel, schlumberger... Also testers, fuel truck... Not the majority, one or two now and then but yup, swinging hammers and carrying iron with the boys! I encourage it, employment equity. I think women in my shop would be a welcome change as well!

 

Can you give me information as how I can get started? So far in my search, there are many "recruiting firms" who charges for various fees, from safety tests and certifications to "connecting" you to the right fitting companies. I don't even think they are legit. Some help?

 

Oh and my background was 20 years in food and beverage plants, last 5 years as a supervisor in a brewery, huge management change out, me out if work, went and got my class 1, now I love my job every day, company is sending some of us for wellhead boom operator cert during breakup! Also we are looking for 2 swampers right now, 15/6 shift out of sylvan lake, class 3 and be eager is the requirement. Green starts at 3000/month and 27/truck hour, after 3 months it's 3500/30 and once operating its 4000/36. I made operator in 6 months. So really background experience doesn't matter.

 

Best thing, in my opinion, is to get a class 1 or 3 license (1 is way better for options) and start searching indeed, kijiji etc... If you wanna drive fluid sometimes mom n pop operations will take you on but for them you will need H2S and first aid, pst/csts on your own. Bigger companies will help you get certs once hired, but the license is our ticket in, and be persistent and show up in person to the companies.

 

Jamesg, you're very helpful! Should i stop from mentioning I'm from Ontario? I've heard they're not too into those from Ontario and Quebec.

 

Dunno about that, I am from BC but I also have an apartment in sylvan lake, to me it shouldn't matter so long as you are eager to learn and show up very day and try your best, maybe some of the others on here know more about hiring from the east??

 

Jamesg,the rates you quoted does that include overtime our is that figuring 15 days at 8 hrs a day?Would those rates be your base guarantee and overtime is extra. What's the process for getting your tickets,how hard is it and what do they cost? What are the duties of a wellhead boom operator and how much do they make? Apologies for so many questions . But I have so many.

 

There is no overtime. You get your monthly guarantee regardless, but have to do time in the shop servicing tools and trucks and then truck wages when you go on jobs, most jobs are 12-16 hours per day but you could also easily sit in the shop for a week and not go on any jobs. We are just transitioning tomorrow from 20/5 shift to 15/6 so still not sure how that's all gonna work for hours n jobs yet and going from bi monthly pay to bi weekly. I know on the 20/5 I averaged 100 truck hours every 2 weeks, others didn't get as many. I made the mistake of getting all my tickets in the okanagan BC and paid too much for them and waited on lists to get in, in Red Deer for example you can have all your tickets in a few days. I am not sure of the costs exactly but figure for first aid, H2S, csts/pst, maybe under $500 for all 3. Different companies all do different things with cranes, my job is one if the easiest, drive the picker truck to location, load frac balls in our ball dropper tool, crane the tool onto the wellhead, swamper snugs down 8 nuts, crane frac iron (pipes) onto wellhead, sit in truck until the guy calling the frac asks you to get out and pull a couple levers on the hydraulic system to launch balls for the frac process. Once done, crane everything off and go home, or hotel, or next town for another job...

 

100 truck hours in 2 weeks? In January? That's slow!
Ive been averaging 75-80 every week since just after New Years. But that's sitting on locations doing coil and frac jobs.

My log book is like the AB Govt. full of lies. At least had the weekend off for a good reset.