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Nuclear Worker Wages
radbitch:
--- Quote from: MR BIG on Apr 28, 2008, 09:39 ---How do you break into the Safety & Health side. Most job offers require experience in that field. I've been a rad tech for 30 yrs. I need a change also because of not being able to scurry up & down those containment ladders. If you know what I mean?
Any direction would be much appreciated.
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I've been a rad tech for the last ~22 yrs and I to wanted out of RP. Although I do still have my quals (just in case). I just by luck got a oversight job on an SGR project in 2001 and then from there was offered many jobs (other than RP). In the past 4 yrs I've done RB coordinator, Move-in coordinator, and a couple RP jobs. I'm currently on a SGR project for the next 2 years working 40's in the sunshine state. The coordinator jobs pay more than double the pay of RP, and there's no cap on mob/demob pay. My advice is to put in for different jobs even if your not qualified. Ya gotta start some where and just maybe their's a company out there willing to hire you. I know several Safety professionals that were RP's. There's one on our project. Safety is BIG now. At Calvert D&Z hired a bunch of Safety people for the refuel outage. You could try them. I think Bartlett also hires them too. I'll ask around and see if I can get some names of companies.
Already Gone:
--- Quote from: Marssim on Apr 29, 2008, 09:01 ---I'm sorry to inform you that the Safety & Health side requires scurrying up & down ladders, and scaffolds, and sewer catch basins, and vent stacks, and cracking towers, and excavations, and ditches, and big pipes, and small voids, and.................
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In other words - it is WORK. It is the best work I have ever had. It pays twice as much as I made as an RP. I work in refineries, fossil plants, nukes, ... anywhere. I feel much more fulfilled after a day's work than I ever did as an RP.
radbitch:
--- Quote from: MR BIG on Apr 30, 2008, 12:19 ---Thanks alot !!! Appreciate anything you could suggest.
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Your welcome MR BIG! I did hear that the ShawGroup has over 20 postings for Safety. I didn't go to their website to verify though. Did you do a search on nukeworker? Or Roadtechs? Throw your resume out there, you never know what you might get! Marssim and Beercourt are Correct. You may have a desk job for awhile, but when it comes down to being in the field "it is WORK"!
105KW:
--- Quote from: alphadude on Mar 29, 2007, 09:23 ---we price the bids we do at the current $30/hr (approximately) rate, and guess what so do all the other contractors ... sooo if joe blow is getting $28 an hour and Joe know is getting $32 an hour guess what the rate is about $30 an hour. its called enticement pay ...lol so average things out and it turns out $30 an hour is about the going rate for techs.. at CY it averages out about that wheather the techs knew it or not.. some were getting $35 an hour and some were getting $25 an hour.. hanford rate is $30, INEL is $30, if you are getting less somebody got more..
(we have about 200 techs working right now)
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Just came across this and thought I would update the Hanford pay. The current rate at Hanford in the farms is 35.72 /hr. This assumes you are working a 4 X 10 day shift. Lead pays a little more and if working a 8 x 9's shift the pay is a little less. Anyone else got an update on the current DOE wages ?
zman:
Looking to jump start an old question. I am considering going house as an R.P. in the midwest. Any knowledge out there on a starting wage. I am a 7+ year ANSI 3.1 and have'nt gotten to the offer phase yet, but am curious what I may be able to expect.
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