Don Pedro`s Offshore Oil Rig Medics-Medical Jobs

Please note 1: Jobs Available are changing all the time. I recommend you come back every one to two weeks and check job listings. Go to the job listings on each website below and check for new opportunities. Positions listed indicate the kind of jobs one usually finds on each website. It's very easy if you bookmark this page.

Please note 2: When the recruiting agent or employer have an on-line application form, you must use it - if you don't, your application goes straight into the waste basket.

Please note 3: None of the listed recruiting agents on this page asks for any placement fee - neither in advance nor later.

Please note 4: Offshore salaries ( wages ) are calculated and based on a 84 hrs work week, i.e. 12 hrs per day 7 days per week. When the job listings give a day rate you won't get paid when you relax at home. If the day rate is USD 300 and rotation two weeks on / two weeks off, you get about 15 x 300 = USD 4.500 per month.

Please note 5: For offshore work everybody must have special Offshore Survival ( "BOSIET" ), Fire fighting and Medical Certificates, also medical staff. Usually agent or employer can advice further where to get these in a specific country. See also Offshore Training and Certificates for more info.

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If you are thinking of searching for a position as medic on remote sites offshore or onshore, it's often easier to start a medical career with a medical service company than applying directly to drilling contractors.

Oil rig medic salary is in the neighbourhood of about UK £ 37,000 per year or about USD 70,000 - 74.000 per year (beginning of 2008).

Get How to Become an Offshore Medic and other information you need to get started on an offshore medic's career.

Links to offshore HSE information. Get monthly newsletter with a regular update from European Agency for Safety and Health at Work concerning European and International occupational safety and health.

Alcohol and Drug Policy Model, 09/2007 ( Canadian Offshore Petroleum Industry ) guideline, pdf-format, 1.36 MB. Based on the Standards of the US Substance Abuse and Mental Health Services Administration.

US-DOT ( Department of Transportation ) Office of Drug & Alcohol Policy & Compliance has published their Employer's Handbook for Drug and Alcohol Testing (PDF). Gives guidelines, best practices, and instructions for building a drug programme. Even it's written for US, it's useful also in other countries - especially if your Government hasn't yet implemented any specific rules.

The offshore medic / paramedic / nurse will be the one to administer the drug and alcohol tests as the employer's representative.

The alcohol ban on offshore oil-gas rigs is an universal one ( world wide ). After the Exxon Valdez accident ( 1989 ) the ban was extended to cover also supply and stand-by vessels in connection with offshore oil operations.

A possible drug and alcohol testing offshore has, however, been met with some resistance, especially from UK labour unions as well as some Australian ones. When it gets mandatory the oil rig medics will handle the actual testing.

UK statutory training for Offshore Medics, Offshore Medic Certification and re-certification ( renewal ) by distance learning. More detailed information on offshore medic certification.

In the near future the use of saturation diving is going to increase. It will therefore be necessary for at least some offshore medics to be familiar also with "diving sickness" and how to best treat that.

Worldwide list of approved Diving Medical Examiners. For US give state abbreviation, for countries type full country name.

Worldwide list of Approved Courses in Diving Medicine.

Medical training for offshore divers with list of Dutch training centres. Nederlands ( Dutch language website )

Diver Medic Technician ( DMT ) plus Paramedic training with certificates ( Australia, UK, and USA ).

UK diver medic training; hyperbaric chamber operators and advanced technical diving programs. Diver medic courses in UK.

British Government Health and Safety Executive Office; Marine Offshore Rescue Advisory Group: Good Practice in Offshore Rescue, PDF format - 0.5 MB.

For offshore work you must get an "offshore medical" certificate. Use search function to find an authorized doctor (UK listings only) in any town in UK.
Canadian company handling medical personnel, occupational health, and emergency medical services for offshore oil rigs and "remote sites": physicians ( doctors ), medics ( paramedics ), nurses ( male and female ). Get instructions regarding résumé and how to apply.
Dutch recruiting agent employs medics offshore. You must register first before applying - English language website.

UK recruiting agent / crew management company recruits also offshore oil rig medics. Use contact page for enquiries.
Onboard crew management company based in Aberdeen (UK) - an "equal opportunity employer" - with a pool of over 800 onboard staff. Also supplying seagoing personnel to a fleet of emergency response and rescue vessels operating both in the North Sea area and Internationally: Masters, Mates, Engineers, Coxswains, etc. Some listed vacancies include salaries offered in UK £ (pound) per year. Click on each vacancy for more details and how to apply.
Dutch offshore ( North Sea ) emergency response and rescue services supplier with 32 vessels [ ERRV ] ( January 2008 ) employing mostly British crew. Applicants must have UK CoC or equivalent plus valid STCW-95 and OPITO certification. Use on-line application form.
Land based career opportunity with British medical equipment supplier to the offshore and marine sectors for medic / nurse ( male-female ) with long offshore and/or marine experience. The position is with the sales department in the London ( UK ) office. Candidates must have UK work permit and should preferably be UK residents. You can use your own CV-application form. Contact details on the employer's webpage.
British ship crew recruiting agency with a long list of available vacancies - scroll down until you find employment for offshore medics, for instance on DSV and PSV. Apply by e-mail.
Offshore and remote site medical services company employs world-wide Registered Nurses, Physicians, and oil rig medics ( paramedics ) with Offshore ( medical ) Certificate. Only professionals with a minimum of three years actual and relevant work experience on offshore rigs or on remote sites. For more information or to apply use e-mail: Info"at"CitadelOffshore.com (instead of "at" you type: @).
UK oilfield medics recruiting agent, some vacancies require OLF certification ( Norwegian sector ). Employment mostly on North Sea oil rigs but occasionally also on Brazilian oil rigs. Occasionally also possibilities for nurses and doctors, with or without prior offshore experience. Contact by email, fax, or telephone.
UK based medical support providing company employ worldwide offshore medics ( with emergency trauma care experience ) and English speaking Brazilian doctors - onshore for remote site medical support. For instance in: Bangladesh, Malaysia, Philippines, and Siberia.

Open opportunities also for English speaking ( Malaysian ) Occupational Health Doctors, Nurses, and Environmental Advisors for Middle East; and Emergency Care Doctors, Nurses, and Medics for remote site operations worldwide - both on and offshore. Some offshore positions can require US Green Card. Use contact form to get more information on available vacancies and opportunities.

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If you don't find what you look for today, come back next week or the week after. There is a new vacancy every day somewhere in the world.

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