Bond or contract for 2 years? Permanent staff? You can get good bonus if you work in shipyard

Most companies related to the marine line pay their staff below market rate wages as evident by you having masters but only getting less then what the median salary is to be expected from a degree hold, much less a masters.

Since its a shipyard company or a company whose business is within the marine field but most of your work is done within a shipyard. Could it be either keppel shipyard, drydocks world shipyard, sembawang shipyard or SMOE, PSA, jurong shipyard, ST Marine or PPL shipyard. Take your pick.

If your a subi and do contracts under shipyards, you have to put up with the shipyard engineers ego's, some who rival or surpass LKY.

This post has been edited by crapp0: Mar 28 2011, 01:29 PM

Got masters should at least aim 3k pay for start ba...Anyway I wouldn't take any bond unless very good pay

Thanks ! ill check.


I dont have other option. I only went to this interview for singapore .. apparently they are the only company who replied among applications i have sent out T.T ...

Not much analytical thing to do here. It's either take up the challenge and work for 2 years there or wait for other option.


May I know what engineering are you ? Civil ?

It's bonded for 2 years. It's considered as permanent staff.

Mine is subsidiary of keppel group. It is said that i dont get some benefits as keppel's employees do =( (most probably the lucrative yearly bonus).

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Added on March 28, 2011, 1:30 pmI agree with you ..... I dont expect 3k given that i have no experience . But 2.3k is too low to me .

This post has been edited by jasperng: Mar 28 2011, 01:30 PM

Are you in keppel gul, keppel fels, keppel benoi or keppel singmarine?

Im now in keppel fels, attached to transoceans key gibraltar jackup rig. Recently went down to keppel benoi, was surprised that the ship frontier phoenix was there for either some repairs or minor refit since i did some work onboard that ship last year and it wasnt long ago that the ship went to keppel tuas to fix a damaged azimuth thruster.

It aint cheap to drydock in any of keppels shipyards.

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This post has been edited by crapp0: Mar 28 2011, 01:44 PM

Working in the oil and gas process industry (and a bit of marine) based in Tuas. FYI, my job came without a bond.

I seriously suggest you look for other jobs or try to nego a bit higher. 2.3k is way too low even for marine industry standards.

2.5k should be norm if you work as fresh grad engineer with degree at shipyard. master probably will need you extra 100-200sgd.

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Which subsidiary is that? Seems rather low considering 2.5K is the norm for fresh grad with degree. Better check with them if you get the yearly bonus otherwise you will be losing out a lot. Anyway the bonus amount varies between business units. Also seems funny that you are a permanent staff but are not entitled to full benefits.

GSF Key...is it true that one of the staff there likes to take evening jogs around the helideck without PPE? My rig is just opposite yours, in light blue skirt =).

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thanks.

Lol what did you do to him

It's alpine engineering services =X ... hmphz ... i guess i will look for other companies =( ... what other O&G/marine companies in sg =/..

agree. quite standard

just that chinaman company bosses nowadays r trying to squeeze my juniors dry by giving them S$2.2K / S$2.3K as a starting pay... they just took up the jobs anyway. it's much better than in msian market.

mm i dont consider 2.3k is much better than msian market >.< considering how expensive the rent in sg ...

can drink....np...certain % of the water comes from ourself PUB keeps on promoting NEWater few years ago. try to get 1 in water hub. i like the cute bottles. i have tried, no taste, no smell u can observe from many purple water pipes at sites nowadays.

lol "certain % the water comes from ourselves" ... nice one bro ...

im not a pretty lady, ofcoz he will run for his life

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Added on March 28, 2011, 9:11 pmjust the rental itself is expensive. if we were to compare dollar to ringgit, the rest is cheap. can save more money than peers in msia. i believe that if one is prudent in his/her spending style, his/her net income (after deducting all expenses) > his/her friends gross salary in msia

This post has been edited by fbjkl: Mar 28 2011, 09:11 PM

I dont think rental in SG is very high compared to KL.

Previously i rented a room in Sunway for RM475, internet included. Now rented a room in Jurong SGD480 but with aircon and internet included. Some area SGD500-600. But dollar per dollar, still ok.

I am not interested to find out that answer, jasperng is the one.

Why should I focus on that question? I WILL find ways to live with what ever I have.

I rather focus on "how to progress?" given any starting point.

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Added on March 28, 2011, 9:55 pmcan you make your own drinks in pantry?

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Added on March 28, 2011, 10:07 pmYou can always find a better place that pay well for your skill. What is there to complain if a PhD want to wipe table for $1500. It is not either take up for 2 years or keep waiting, you have to know your own value.

This post has been edited by r1v3r: Mar 28 2011, 10:07 PM

Thanks Lester. Seems like aside from applying or register for something, I hope EP is sufficient... don't like to bring too many things out with me to reduce chance of losing it...