With our focus on research and development – and our abundance of natural resources, the UK is firmly in first place when it comes to creating and growing companies in the
renewable energy sector and oil industry.
As we continue to invest in energy coming from natural resources, this will create a wealth of
renewable energy jobs as well as continued rise in
oil and gas jobs.
Recent news has highlighted
new renewable energy projects in offshore wind farms around the UK which heralds great news for
renewable energy jobs. There is also a
significant amount of R&D activity in the wave energy and marine power sector – which will also create more jobs in energy.
In fact, jobseekers may be interested to hear that the
renewable energy sector is currently under skilled and that the entire
renewables sector is in need of top-quality candidates to fill an increasing number of jobs in energy. The emergence of renewables and the ever changing environment make this not only a more stable sector, but also a hugely exciting one for candidates to enter into.
Scotland in particular has potentially one quarter of Europe's current
wind, wave and tidal energy, with onshore wind generation currently supports nearly
3,000 energy jobs in Scotland.
Scotland is pioneering research into
fuel cell technology, a field that is hugely important to the renewable energy industry.
Despite the recent economic climate,
Aberdeen’s oil and gas industry has continued to establish itself as
Europe’s oil and gas capital – with the industry generating 1/3rd of the UK’s energy - and employing skilled engineering both on and offshore.
The UK oil and gas industry is located mainly off the Aberdeen coast - but fields have also been developed in the
Irish Sea,
west of the Shetland Islands, and in the
English Channel. About
18,000 people work offshore on a regular basis on fixed production platforms, mobile drilling rigs, or floating production storage and offloading units (FPS0s). Scotland is home to all the major oil & gas operators and the industry provides
jobs in energy for around 145,000 skilled people of all nationalities. Scotland has more than 2,000 service and supply companies active in more than 40 countries worldwide.
Jobs in the oil and gas sector in Aberdeen are typically engineers or technically related. And there is always an abundance of
jobs offshore. You can expect to
find energy jobs for process engineers, mechanical engineers, production engineers and construction engineers – however there are also a number of other varied career opportunities for people such as roustabouts, drilling specialists, welders, Health & Safety Specialists and pipefitters.
In the renewable energy sector, we can expect to find a dramatic increase in
wave energy jobs,
wind power jobs and
solar energy jobs. This exciting jobs boom will affect all job sectors.
Again, likely job creation will be for
engineering jobs such as
wind turbine technician,
structural engineer,
mechanical engineer and
marine engineer jobs – but there will also be a knock on effect in all areas of the job market – for example project management, administration jobs, accountancy jobs and much more.