Ohio Laborers Train Ohioans For The Natural Gas Industry

Michael Engbert of the Ohio Laborers District Council discusses how their organization is training Ohioans to work in Ohio's developing shale industry:

"When most people think about the construction industry for natural gas related work images of pipe welders, machine operators, and truck drivers come to mind. One of the most important pieces on a shale gas construction job site who gets overlooked is the general construction craft laborer. The Ohio Laborers District Council, affiliated with the Laborers International Union of North America (LIUNA), represents a large share of these skilled laborers with over 17,000 members in Ohio. LIUNA is committed to training its members to be the most knowledgeable, highly qualified, and most safety driven workforce in the new and burgeoning shale gas industry.

Laborers’ work craft covers four main areas of shale related construction: processing facilities, pipelines, road work, and well pad construction. The skills for these jobs are taught at the 56,000 square foot Drexel J. Thrash Training Center located 12 miles east of Mt. Vernon in Howard, Ohio.

With the anticipated surge in new pipelines set to be built the Ohio Laborers Training Center is now offering to its membership year round training in pipeline related skills. This one week course covers a variety of pipeline essentials such as sandblasting, properly applying different epoxy coatings, checking pipe coatings for variations (known as ‘jeeping’), handling skids, and CAD welding just to name a few skills taught. Trainees get real world simulated training with ‘working laboratories’ where students can actually put into practice what they learned in the classroom. Class members must demonstrate proficiency in using skids to build pipe cribs, building fence gaps, sandblasting pipe coating, and applying as well as testing the various different pipe coatings. This class also offers trainees the opportunity to take Veriforce Operator Qualification testing in eleven different tasks often seen on gas pipeline projects."

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Permalink Reply by Billy Park Whyde on October 2, 2012 at 11:08pm

Anne as a member here I am getting somewhat confused as to all the propaganda of jobs being created in Ohio with the O&G industry.  Training is fine but what we see here is a demand for the 4 or 5 years experience that no one has in Ohio! I personally am getting pretty well disgusted with seeing the bad  news about what is going on in Ohio with the antics of CHK and others that have went as far as to record leases and then never paying for the lease!

   Let me give an example,I have applied to numerous O&G companies and nothing ,no interview. no nothing . I can't even get a resume posted on RIG ZONE  as per message:

Thank you for taking the time to submit your online resume to the Rigzone Career Center; we cannot activate your resume at this time but will do so as soon as we are able to add the recruiters and employers who have a demand for employees with your qualifications and experience. Currently the Rigzone Career Center focuses on the sector of the market with requirements for personnel with previous industry training or work history. We will send you an email as soon as your resume is activated.

I just sent them:

Hello
As a unemployed land owner in Ohio I am getting a bit disgusted with the O&G industry promise of jobs in Ohio! I have had a resume upon your website that appears to be censored by RIG ZONE. The O&G industry is looking for employees but in Ohio there are not many people that have 4 or 5 years in the oil patch. I however have not met anyone in the oil patch that knows anything about gyro guidance technology or high reliability soldering of avionic grade that has a clean Class "A CDL as well. I would appreciate it if you allow the O&G industry to view my resume. This message has been copied and posted to the Go Marcellus Shale website in reference to what I am starting to view as propaganda about O&G jobs in Ohio by Energy in Depth.
Billy Whyde

  By the way gyros are being used in horizontal drilling along with  technology that does not respond well to a sledge hammer.   I might add if I can safely navigate  oversized loads in WV  to  driving in  in 26 different states I have the skill to drive in a oil field!  Grr yes you might say I am a bit peeved but I can probably imagine that there are landowners in eastern Ohio that would love to see their family or neighbors employed. 

Permalink Reply by Billy Park Whyde on October 3, 2012 at 1:10pm

 In all fairness:

On Wed, Oct 3, 2012 at 12:45 PM, RZJobs a href="mailto:jobs@rigzone.com" target="_blank">jobs@rigzone.com> wrote:

Hello,

Thank you for your email.  I apologize your resume has been inactive for so long.  I have activated it and you can now search our database for positions that are open.  Also your resume can be viewed by companies that search our database
Regards
RZ Team
Billy Whyde starhauler@gmail.com
1:04 PM (2 minutes ago)
to RZJobs
Thank you very much in the speedy reply and in the activation of my resume! Much appreciated! 
 A suggestion for EID  It might be good for a positive PR for the O&G companies to announce their employment of Ohio's own people.

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