What can an aircraft engineer do after redundancy?
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Hi everyone just wondering if anyone had any advice!
I am a 26 year old aircraft engineer working for an airline at Gatwick Airport. Although we have been told redundancy is unlikely, I feel like I need to have some sort of backup plan. Airlines are not recruiting so it looks like I’d have to go elsewhere, but I have no idea where i would be qualified to work whilst earning a similar sort of salary?
My qualifications are:
EASA Cat A aircraft maintenance license
Level 3 NVQ in Aeronautical Engineering
Level 3 Diploma in On-Air Maintenance Category A1 - Aeroplanes (Turbine)
Functional Skills Qualification in Information and Communication Technology (ICT) at Level
2
2 A Levels
10 A* - C GCSEs
I currently get paid £44,000 PA. I know it’s unlikely I will be able to find a job paying the same but due to mortgage, kids & other financial commitments, I need to be able to earn somewhere in that region.
Does anyone know any jobs that I would be able get in this current climate? I’m feeling really anxious and would love to have some sort of backup plan in place!
Thank you
I am a 26 year old aircraft engineer working for an airline at Gatwick Airport. Although we have been told redundancy is unlikely, I feel like I need to have some sort of backup plan. Airlines are not recruiting so it looks like I’d have to go elsewhere, but I have no idea where i would be qualified to work whilst earning a similar sort of salary?
My qualifications are:
EASA Cat A aircraft maintenance license
Level 3 NVQ in Aeronautical Engineering
Level 3 Diploma in On-Air Maintenance Category A1 - Aeroplanes (Turbine)
Functional Skills Qualification in Information and Communication Technology (ICT) at Level
2
2 A Levels
10 A* - C GCSEs
I currently get paid £44,000 PA. I know it’s unlikely I will be able to find a job paying the same but due to mortgage, kids & other financial commitments, I need to be able to earn somewhere in that region.
Does anyone know any jobs that I would be able get in this current climate? I’m feeling really anxious and would love to have some sort of backup plan in place!
Thank you
Generally staying within the aircraft industry if made redundant is going to be hard.
At Gatwick many companies have shut/withdrawn their Engineering and flight operations. The remaining ones are not recruiting or are looking to streamline their operations and may be making cuts themselves.
Some redundant engineers have transfered up to heathrow with their companies or have got jobs at other companies like Airtanker.
Depends on how far you want to travel, whether you are open to relocation and how desperate you are to stay in the airline industry.
You say your company arent making cuts, so unless you are desperate for a change (nows not a great time for that for anyone) it would probqbly be best to stick with it. Flight numbers from Gatwick are picking up weekly and more and more airlines are returning.
If the worst happens and your company do make cuts, and you are affected, then you might be best to look for Tesco, Amazon etc etc just to get the bills paid for 6 months to a year till the worst of this blows over.
At Gatwick many companies have shut/withdrawn their Engineering and flight operations. The remaining ones are not recruiting or are looking to streamline their operations and may be making cuts themselves.
Some redundant engineers have transfered up to heathrow with their companies or have got jobs at other companies like Airtanker.
Depends on how far you want to travel, whether you are open to relocation and how desperate you are to stay in the airline industry.
You say your company arent making cuts, so unless you are desperate for a change (nows not a great time for that for anyone) it would probqbly be best to stick with it. Flight numbers from Gatwick are picking up weekly and more and more airlines are returning.
If the worst happens and your company do make cuts, and you are affected, then you might be best to look for Tesco, Amazon etc etc just to get the bills paid for 6 months to a year till the worst of this blows over.
TheRingDing said:
Hi everyone just wondering if anyone had any advice!
I am a 26 year old aircraft engineer working for an airline at Gatwick Airport. Although we have been told redundancy is unlikely, I feel like I need to have some sort of backup plan. Airlines are not recruiting so it looks like I’d have to go elsewhere, but I have no idea where i would be qualified to work whilst earning a similar sort of salary?
My qualifications are:
EASA Cat A aircraft maintenance license
Level 3 NVQ in Aeronautical Engineering
Level 3 Diploma in On-Air Maintenance Category A1 - Aeroplanes (Turbine)
Functional Skills Qualification in Information and Communication Technology (ICT) at Level
2
2 A Levels
10 A* - C GCSEs
I currently get paid £44,000 PA. I know it’s unlikely I will be able to find a job paying the same but due to mortgage, kids & other financial commitments, I need to be able to earn somewhere in that region.
Does anyone know any jobs that I would be able get in this current climate? I’m feeling really anxious and would love to have some sort of backup plan in place!
Thank you
You need to look into double glazing installation.I am a 26 year old aircraft engineer working for an airline at Gatwick Airport. Although we have been told redundancy is unlikely, I feel like I need to have some sort of backup plan. Airlines are not recruiting so it looks like I’d have to go elsewhere, but I have no idea where i would be qualified to work whilst earning a similar sort of salary?
My qualifications are:
EASA Cat A aircraft maintenance license
Level 3 NVQ in Aeronautical Engineering
Level 3 Diploma in On-Air Maintenance Category A1 - Aeroplanes (Turbine)
Functional Skills Qualification in Information and Communication Technology (ICT) at Level
2
2 A Levels
10 A* - C GCSEs
I currently get paid £44,000 PA. I know it’s unlikely I will be able to find a job paying the same but due to mortgage, kids & other financial commitments, I need to be able to earn somewhere in that region.
Does anyone know any jobs that I would be able get in this current climate? I’m feeling really anxious and would love to have some sort of backup plan in place!
Thank you
TheRingDing said:
Haha Glasgow would be a bit too far...
I’ve looked at the RAF but largely skills aren’t that transferable unfortunately!
I would be extremely careful before signing up to any of the services - and then don't do it.I’ve looked at the RAF but largely skills aren’t that transferable unfortunately!
If the job goes pear shaped in Civvy Street, you can walk away.
If it goes wrong in the RAF you are stuffed for the period of your service commitment. (Can you buy yourself out nowadays?)
Louis Balfour said:
TheRingDing said:
Hi everyone just wondering if anyone had any advice!
I am a 26 year old aircraft engineer working for an airline at Gatwick Airport. Although we have been told redundancy is unlikely, I feel like I need to have some sort of backup plan. Airlines are not recruiting so it looks like I’d have to go elsewhere, but I have no idea where i would be qualified to work whilst earning a similar sort of salary?
My qualifications are:
EASA Cat A aircraft maintenance license
Level 3 NVQ in Aeronautical Engineering
Level 3 Diploma in On-Air Maintenance Category A1 - Aeroplanes (Turbine)
Functional Skills Qualification in Information and Communication Technology (ICT) at Level
2
2 A Levels
10 A* - C GCSEs
I currently get paid £44,000 PA. I know it’s unlikely I will be able to find a job paying the same but due to mortgage, kids & other financial commitments, I need to be able to earn somewhere in that region.
Does anyone know any jobs that I would be able get in this current climate? I’m feeling really anxious and would love to have some sort of backup plan in place!
Thank you
You need to look into double glazing installation.I am a 26 year old aircraft engineer working for an airline at Gatwick Airport. Although we have been told redundancy is unlikely, I feel like I need to have some sort of backup plan. Airlines are not recruiting so it looks like I’d have to go elsewhere, but I have no idea where i would be qualified to work whilst earning a similar sort of salary?
My qualifications are:
EASA Cat A aircraft maintenance license
Level 3 NVQ in Aeronautical Engineering
Level 3 Diploma in On-Air Maintenance Category A1 - Aeroplanes (Turbine)
Functional Skills Qualification in Information and Communication Technology (ICT) at Level
2
2 A Levels
10 A* - C GCSEs
I currently get paid £44,000 PA. I know it’s unlikely I will be able to find a job paying the same but due to mortgage, kids & other financial commitments, I need to be able to earn somewhere in that region.
Does anyone know any jobs that I would be able get in this current climate? I’m feeling really anxious and would love to have some sort of backup plan in place!
Thank you
if you are based near Gatwick then Tube Driver. The job is even easier these days as the trains are emptier so they go faster and you get your shift done quicker. So I believe it goes.
To the one who said nuc, one of my employers are about to dump a load of nuc contractors and permies onto the market when furlough ends, we're already in consultation; nuc work is still and will still be there, the problem is the gubberment procurement departments that sanction the work have all gone off on full pay furlough for six months.
(The cost to clean up the UK nuclear industry, in total, over the next 120 years, was spent on Furlough wages for GB plc, in the first three weeks of lockdown)!
If you do go for nuc, a maintenance engineer is often called a "systems engineer" i.e. you get to know and love, cherish hate and nurture one bit of plant, that is a term to search for on the websites, or decommissioning engineer. Location wise you're pretty much either Dungeness (though not for many more years) South of Gatwick or then moving to Oxford (Harwell) / Severn Estuary areas (Hinkley, Oldbury), otherwise Manchester for design houses or Cumbria for Sellafield. Bradwell in Essex and Sizewell are busted flushes employment wise, saturated and on their leisurely run downs.
To the one who said nuc, one of my employers are about to dump a load of nuc contractors and permies onto the market when furlough ends, we're already in consultation; nuc work is still and will still be there, the problem is the gubberment procurement departments that sanction the work have all gone off on full pay furlough for six months.
(The cost to clean up the UK nuclear industry, in total, over the next 120 years, was spent on Furlough wages for GB plc, in the first three weeks of lockdown)!
If you do go for nuc, a maintenance engineer is often called a "systems engineer" i.e. you get to know and love, cherish hate and nurture one bit of plant, that is a term to search for on the websites, or decommissioning engineer. Location wise you're pretty much either Dungeness (though not for many more years) South of Gatwick or then moving to Oxford (Harwell) / Severn Estuary areas (Hinkley, Oldbury), otherwise Manchester for design houses or Cumbria for Sellafield. Bradwell in Essex and Sizewell are busted flushes employment wise, saturated and on their leisurely run downs.
The Mad Monk said:
I would be extremely careful before signing up to any of the services - and then don't do it.
If the job goes pear shaped in Civvy Street, you can walk away.
If it goes wrong in the RAF you are stuffed for the period of your service commitment. (Can you buy yourself out nowadays?)
These days you sign up on a 12 year contract with a further 8 years on top if you get promoted to corporal/leading hand level. The minimum amount of time you have to do is 4 years and certain courses have a return of service. You get an initial 6 month period where you can leave any time you want.If the job goes pear shaped in Civvy Street, you can walk away.
If it goes wrong in the RAF you are stuffed for the period of your service commitment. (Can you buy yourself out nowadays?)
The Navy are offering advanced apprenticeships in marine and air engineering provided you have level 3 qualifications in a relevant subject. You enter as a leading hand on £32k which is less than the OP is on but you also get the added benefits that go with service life. Job security being the main one for me at the moment plus its a decent salary for the work you actually put in compared to civvies.
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