Facilities / Equipment Eng Salary

Phester

I have been round the mill of jobs over the past few years. averaging about 1.5 years per job before the place either closed down or I was unhappy with something i.e. work conditions or salary.

I was working as a technician in electronics companies making good money back in 2000 and on the right track before the tailend of the downturn hit. I got my BSC in electronics Manufacturing part time since.

I now made what I taught would be last move for a few years into a government funded research semiconductor facility in Cork.

They offered my really low wages (28K) but my boss assured me that he will bring low paid people up fast as otherwise they will leave. I had my first review and got nothing special off him. He said that I had not completed my training year yet.

Smelling a rat I decided to pry into procedures for getting a raise. I found out from him that next year he can do nothing to increase my salary bar the normal review process which will net me up to 1k max.

I am on a fixed term contract at the moment.

Is the renewal date a point that I could try to renegotiate or am I supposed to thank god that they are renewing it.

Does anybody know what a Mech / Equipment Eng should get paid. Salary guides are both higher and lower without ever publishing location or statistical data on the sample.

Very hard to find work in the south unless you know people in the Pharma industry. All recruitment people are useless saying that you don't have FDA experience which to the best of my knowledge is just paperwork & procedures for the average employee.

Clairecluck

That is awful, seems like employers are all the same. You can't trust any of them :mad: