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EPC VS OEM FOR LONG CARRER GROWTH 2

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Anans

Anans

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Jul 9, 2023
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As a mechanical engineer and having around 11+ years of experience in OEM (API 610 pumps & it's auxiliary seal systems). I was started my career in seal system and later moved in pump industry. Now I am trying to compressor / turbine OEM side in which I am unable to get the job. But my ultimate aim is to work as a successful rotating equipment engineer handling all pumps / compressor / turbines and so on. Now I got the job too in one of the EPC companies in india. Similarly I got job as a API 610 project engineer role south korea. can some one guide / suggest me which is good career path at current market situation along with my past experience/ aim.

Highly appreciated if someone help me on this.
Thanks in advance.
 
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If you want to become a rotating equipment specialist, working for an EPC company is probably not the best choice. From what I've seen most of the work that rotating equipment specialists do at EPC companies involves transferring information from a process data sheet onto a mechanical data sheet, incorporating requirements from client specifications, assembling requisition packages, then reviewing the vendor data as it comes in. Training budgets are typically quite small. Lots of meetings/administrative work. Additionally, on large EPC projects the engineering can become "assembly line" type work, so you might end up just preparing API 682 Seal Plan data sheets, one after the next.

I think the fastest way to gain expertise in rotating machinery would be to work as a rotating equipment engineer at a facility that has a wide variety of pumps/compressors/turbines.


-Christine



 
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