My name is Gary and I have been lurking on the forums for the last couple of days. I am looking to move into the nuke industry by becoming an NLO at the Limerick Plant. I have a Civil Engineering B.S. from Pitt (2003), and I have my EIT. Since graduating, I have worked as a Construction and Design Consultant for architects in Philadelphia. I am also an elected Township Supervisor in Exeter Township, Berks County.
From what I have heard, there aren't going to be NLO openings at Limerick for almost a year, but I am trying to get some nuke experience between now and then. According to this website -
http://www.roadtechs.com/nukeout.htm - there is going to be an outage on one of the towers in late March of this year. I know it may be a long shot, but does anyone have advice on how I can get work there? I have vacation time built up and can free up time.
I can do any kind of work and do it well. I worked for my father's construction company on the weekends and summers during high school and until I graduated college.
I will make another post in the near future about my strategy to be prepared for the NLO interview, but for now my focus is on doing outage work. Any thoughts or suggestions?
*Edit - I've looked into this a little more and it seems like it is all union work, which is a problem for me because I am not in a union. I would mainly be qualified as a laborer and according to a chart that I found on here, Local Labor Union #135 handles that. Is this not an attainable goal?