Hello All,
Ex-navy Nuke here (EM 10yr vet ). I've been out of the Service since 2006. After spending 10 yrs wrapped in the Service's nuclear appendages, I decided I wanted to stray away from nuclear power and see what "normal" civilian maintenance could offer. Needless to say, I got a job as a maintenance technician at a brand new, state of the art tire manufacturing plant (japanese owned). During my three years at this plant I've gained a multitude of cutting edge knowledge ranging from robotic systems, servo motor controls, the lastest in various PLC programming code, everything you can think of in the latest pnuematic control systems, and a plethera of other maintenance related fields. Almost all of my new experience is quite high tech.
Anyways I digress.....
A family situation has come up which may require me to look for a straight shift type job. Does anyone know what types of maintenance related jobs the nuclear industry might have to offer. Are any of those jobs straight shift? Would they be hard to get into after being away from nuke power for 3+ years?
From what I read in some other posts, Ops seems to be what a majority of ex-navy get into. That is going to be a NO_GO for me due to rotating shifts. I really enjoy PLC programming and would love to continue working around them if by some miracle they utilize them at a plant. Ohh... and if you nukers don't know what PLC's are, it stands for Programmable Logic Controller.
Thanks