Northern work Escape

First of all, good on you. I am envious.

I havent got any personal experience with working at the mines in that area (or any other mine in any other area for that matter), however I do have a mate who went up there looking for work and despite having no formal trade qualifications, he got a job almost immediately, so I would assume that if you have a trade, you will have no problems at all.

Good luck with it.

BB.

Mate as a mechanical fitter you will be very sought after. I,m thinking of the same in the near future and have recently had a long conversation with a guy in the bowen basin region. He tells me Motor mechs earn 80-150k p.a. He gave me a list of companies and did specifically say that BMA were good to work for.

Good Luck

Greg

mate u will have no trouble as all finding work, fitters & boilermakers are the 2 most sort tradesmen wanted up here.

i just finished work up in moranbah about 200kms west of mackay, the fitters there where on salary packages of 109k per yr working 4 on 4 off shifts. id suggest u head up to mackay where most of the minning businesses are based & talk to some of the businesses, but u must be prepared to spend a bit of $ to get ur generics & inductions aprox 2k at most then the world is at ur feet.

Check out the Transfield Services web site for employment opportunities.

There's heaps of work up that way.

Cheers
Garth

Base yourself in Townsville and fly out to a mine and they will beg you to work for them

you can start off with any of the contracting mobs, precise, precision, haines this gives you an oppurtunity to work in different areas and with different companies to see what you like.
my partner is with leightons and has one of the better gigs, under 2hrs drive from home, 10 mins from camp to site, four on four off, good pay, good camp.
Leightons are looking at the moment so take a squiz at thier site for details.

cackles