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  • 08-04-2008 11:46am
    #1
    ibh
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,722 ✭✭✭


    Don't know if i should stick this here or in the Work & Jobs forum so feel free to move it mods.

    I have decided today that i really do hate my job and it's more likely to get worse than get better so i'm going to split.
    I am working as a project engineer in a building services company but i would prefer to go towards working in a HVAC / Fire design engineering role. I have a degree in Mechanical Engineering.

    What i was hoping for was the name of a few companies in the Dublin area doing this sort of work. I have contacted recruitment agents in the past and i still contact them to keep looking but they haven't given me much joy so far.
    So i thought i would try getting onto these directly. I have looked up a few of them e.g. WSP, Arup, Faber Maunsell etc but just looking for a comprehensive list of companies that i could approach.

    If anybody has any info I would appreciate it.

    Cheers.


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  • #2
    godtabh
    Moderators, Science, Health & Environment Moderators Posts: 23,243 Mod ✭✭✭✭godtabh


    I work for one of them companies. Well worth joing. Seem to be very busy on that side of things.

    Have you tried DCC? I know some one working in there on the fire cert side of things. She must be there a year now. Seems to like it. She is from the mec eng side of things as well


  • #3
    ibh
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,722 ✭✭✭ibh


    kearnsr wrote: »
    I work for one of them companies. Well worth joing. Seem to be very busy on that side of things.

    Have you tried DCC? I know some one working in there on the fire cert side of things. She must be there a year now. Seems to like it. She is from the mec eng side of things as well

    Cheers, the biggest problem i have is that i don't know the names of all the companies doing this sort of thing in Dublin, as I work up North at the min.

    I'll look up DCC.

    Cheers,


  • #4
    godtabh
    Moderators, Science, Health & Environment Moderators Posts: 23,243 Mod ✭✭✭✭godtabh


    ibh wrote: »
    Cheers, the biggest problem i have is that i don't know the names of all the companies doing this sort of thing in Dublin, as I work up North at the min.

    I'll look up DCC.

    Cheers,

    DCC is Dublin City Council incase that wasnt clear.


  • #5
    Nukem
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 4,082 ✭✭✭Nukem


    Try RPS they have a few offices in Dublin and scattered around the place and do all that jazz


  • #6
    godtabh
    Moderators, Science, Health & Environment Moderators Posts: 23,243 Mod ✭✭✭✭godtabh


    Nukem wrote: »
    Try RPS they have a few offices in Dublin and scattered around the place and do all that jazz

    Depending on what you want to do. I started small the gain experience. Start big if you want to speicalise straight away as in big places what you do will generally be the same day to day


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  • #7
    smooth operater
    Closed Accounts Posts: 209 ✭✭smooth operater


    kearnsr wrote: »
    Depending on what you want to do. I started small the gain experience. Start big if you want to speicalise straight away as in big places what you do will generally be the same day to day

    Yep, thats what i'm doing aswel, thrown straight into the deep end, persoannally i think its the way to go


  • #8
    ibh
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,722 ✭✭✭ibh


    kearnsr wrote: »
    DCC is Dublin City Council incase that wasnt clear.
    Yea, i knew who you were talking about. I have never bothered with these type of jobs before but i will give it a go cause i'm desperate to leave soon.
    Nukem wrote: »
    Try RPS they have a few offices in Dublin and scattered around the place and do all that jazz
    Will do. Cheers
    kearnsr wrote: »
    Depending on what you want to do. I started small the gain experience. Start big if you want to speicalise straight away as in big places what you do will generally be the same day to day

    I was targeting big companies becuase i though they would be more likely to take someone on who has been working in a slightly different area. I guessed that the small companies would be looking for someone who knew sh!tloads already.

    I will now try and target a few smaller companies as well to try and get started.

    Thanks for the info.


  • #9
    matsil
    Closed Accounts Posts: 127 ✭✭matsil


    ibh wrote: »
    Yea, i knew who you were talking about. I have never bothered with these type of jobs before but i will give it a go cause i'm desperate to leave soon.


    Will do. Cheers



    I was targeting big companies becuase i though they would be more likely to take someone on who has been working in a slightly different area. I guessed that the small companies would be looking for someone who knew sh!tloads already.

    I will now try and target a few smaller companies as well to try and get started.

    Thanks for the info.

    On the contrary, the big companies would generally expect you know quite alot about a narrow field...... where as smaller companies will value people skills etc. more and prefer a more broad knowledge, with less detail.....

    if for example you are looknig at underfloor heating, odds are you'll put a spec on it and bang it out to a specialist.... ARUP's, PM, and so on will do the lot themselves..... air handlers for example > smaller company you will spec out what the requirements are, and then let the specialist look at it and iron out the tech. parts......

    in time, you will need to know the lot, to move onto "senior" positions - be it will the small guy or the big fish, but from the otuset, you are definitely better off thrown in the deep end with a small company - you'll learn more, and faster, and be given the all important responsibility faster.... which ultimately is what high profile jobs are all about - management..... sad, but true......

    HTH


  • #10
    ibh
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,722 ✭✭✭ibh


    matsil wrote: »
    On the contrary, the big companies would generally expect you know quite alot about a narrow field...... where as smaller companies will value people skills etc. more and prefer a more broad knowledge, with less detail.....

    if for example you are looknig at underfloor heating, odds are you'll put a spec on it and bang it out to a specialist.... ARUP's, PM, and so on will do the lot themselves..... air handlers for example > smaller company you will spec out what the requirements are, and then let the specialist look at it and iron out the tech. parts......

    in time, you will need to know the lot, to move onto "senior" positions - be it will the small guy or the big fish, but from the otuset, you are definitely better off thrown in the deep end with a small company - you'll learn more, and faster, and be given the all important responsibility faster.... which ultimately is what high profile jobs are all about - management..... sad, but true......

    HTH

    Cheers Matsil. The approach that i am now going with is basically to get the names of smaller companies from the Golden Pages and contact them myself. Recruitment agents and me have not been a successful combination, but i won't go into that.

    Thanks again.


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