There are no barriers stopping aspiring individuals from climbing up the career ladder in the energy sector, believes an industry manager.
After 16 years in the sector with no academic qualifications to his name, Elliot Kinch enrolled on an oil and gas masters course before becoming a business development manager at Omega Completion Technologies in August this year.
“That was a big step but I thought that really did cement my position in the industry,” Kinch told Energy Voice.
Kinch, who is also the vice-chair of the communications committee at the Society of Petroleum Engineers in Aberdeen, believes that school-leavers in the region have unparalleled opportunities for development in the energy sector.
“The industry is only going forward; the major investment you see from companies moving into Aberdeen, the untapped resources of the North Sea which have been untapped for 30 years – [if you] do your training through an operator or a specialist service company now then there is no barriers that can stop an individual from getting up the ladder.”
Elliot Kinch is one of our career Q&A interviewees in The Press and Journal’s Energy Graduate supplement, available from Monday, October 28.
And you can watch the Energy Voice preview interview with Elliot Kinch below.
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