ExxonMobil affiliate Esso Exploration and Production Guyana Limited (EEPGL) says locally-trained engineers are eligible for engineering posts which the company is looking to fill but questions persist as to whether Guyanese will be hired for the most technical of these.
Currently, the company is inviting applications for facilities and well engineers. The advertisements will run until December 9th. These would be among the higher paying jobs in the nascent oil and gas industry. Hundreds of Guyanese have been hired by EEPGL and oil contractors but critics have said these are mostly unskilled positions with relatively low pay.
There are concerns that Guyanese may not be suitably qualified to take on some of the more technical posts in the company’s offshore operations, but the company says that persons with engineering degrees satisfy the educational requirements, and that with additional training that will be provided post-employment, will be suitably qualified to take on the posts advertised.
