i was with kencana years ago (but not pinewell ), kencana petroleum is actually the parent company, and pinewell is the hook up/comissioning subsidiary. there are also bestwide (engineering/procurement), HL (yard), and KPV - which is the marine/drilling and the ship management arm - nautilus.

One problem about kencana IMHO is the HR, no time off and 10 days annual leave, and other benefit is not good enough compared to other similar company. i don't know whether this have changed, but according to my friends there it is still the same even after they transferred to solaris. dunno if they still work on saturday.

in pinewell if as a field engineer should be mostly in field like offshore/shipyard, prospect wise should be good as most of the seniors will go for office position after 5-10 years, so there will always be opportunity for young engineers.

design/engineering will be much different and most of the time will only stayed in office except for maybe acceptance test and vendors visit, and also if after completion of project got problem at site than you will have the chance to go
i was from the design background but now doing something diff - still related to o&g


err.. lovebatt... u did ruby isn't it? hehehe.... i was there during the start of the project, but stayed in kl at the design consultant office. wonder if we know each other?

HSE officer manages the safety briefing/JHA JSA etc...
we usually have medics onboard, these are actually medical assistants that we can find in the hospital... but the salary is quite good...
i know 1 in my previous job (malaysian) got rm500 per day, and his job most of the time sleep and surf internet... damn...

no la... i already left engineering field after kencana...hahaha... kepala pening looking at drawings...
i'm now doing offshore vessel management stuff... also pening on standby 24/7... haih.. at least last time doing project can rest after completion...
but i got few ex colleagues in sbm, mmc and all those engineering place...

if structural u know umar? but he also left already...

yeah... i did ruby and was 1 of the CSR for the yard in consultant office in kl... but i left few months into the project...

This post has been edited by karirzies: May 12 2011, 04:47 PM

in the last OGA there are companies collecting resumes... you can print out whole bunch and submit there...

Usually, or at least in petronas and its subsidiaries.... For fresh grads they seldom ask technical stuff, bcos those stuff you will learn on the job, as most of the time the job is specialized, for example if you go do comissioning, you have to learn the standard method used in the organization, paperworks, reporting and such...

What they usually do in interview is to see your confidence level and conversation skills....

During my time in one of petronas subs, the scenario that i get is i am a factory onwer, and some kind of pollution happens at the factory, i need to answer to reporter and the authority, the nterviewers. They will try to provoke and turn the facts around to see if you will budge.
The 2nd one is about newspaper that i usually read if i'm not mistaken...

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Added on May 17, 2011, 9:52 pmEverthing is possible if you want to...
I am also a 2nd lower engineering degree holder....
I started with a stint in a shipyard doing engineering...

This post has been edited by karirzies: May 17 2011, 09:52 PM

Mmhe will always have vacancies... The turnover rate is quite high there... fresh grads goes there to get training/exposure and move on to singapore yards, older guys add their creds there and went to high paying consultants/big international companies... Those who stayed long usually already settled down, bought homes or from around johor...
Not that the place is a bad place to work... Is just that when people went in there, its kinda like eyes opener that there are better places outside...

Last time people always said its because of the low salaries... But they have raise it few years ago so i guess its not the case... maybe not as high as what is offered in sg, but good enough for this side of the causeway..

One thing to note is, it is a very big company, with almost 300-500 execs or engineers at a time, it will be quite hard to get promoted. I know few guys who only get promoted one grade after 5-6 years, but there also exceptionals who got promoted to project managers for the same period...
I guess Its either you need to be very good at your job, or you are a expert in sucking up...