Thread: Contract work in Afghanistan

i take it ure police report has to b clean?

Originally Posted by Lingy

I completed application form on the KBR website for journeymen and after 4 weeks a lady sent me an email requesting copies of all my certificates, passport, etc. She then requested a police report that could be no older than 6 months, she wanted a dentist report completing to verify that I had no problems with my teeth and she wanted a copy of my JIB card. After she received all the information she emailed me to arrange a time for the interview which she did over the phone and this took 45 minutes. After this she sent a letter giving me a date to travel to Houston and told me to expect flight tickets and travel info 1 week before travelling. She sent me a list of items that I would need for Iraq/Afghanistan and sent me medical insurance forms which are compulsory over there ($165 per month). During the processing week I would have to complete a skills test using the Uglys handbook and have a medical which would take all day. BMI can only be 40% over your ideal weight or they will send you home. All airline tickets are return and they pay for them. Look on the HMRC website at the HMRC6 document, pages 48 onwards and this gives information on the tax situation.

You do know why you got a dentists report.....

CRB check has to be clean and can be no longer than 6 months old. You have to send them a copy and then take the original with you to Houston.

Not a place I fancy going even with my experiance. Done 3 stints in Iraq as a Mechanic/Engineering Manager and was armed to the teeth. Going back as a contractor you have very littleand will be pretty much confined to the wire. Its dry (no alcohol) and youll either get fit or fat(ter) with all the burger bars and the likes. Kosovo wasnt too bad, but the early days in Bosnia were quite hairy......................If anyone wants it I have a lucky bullet proof vest for sale (never been shot!!!)

hello lloyd

sounds good,any chance of having the details of comany?

regards

ged

£53k, you must be mad!

Who wants to risk there lives for that????????????

i agree i think any1 who goes to either iraq or alfghanistan for no less then MEGA money is barmy!

Hi, Just wanted to say i came back from Iraq 2 weeks ago was working for KBR, you clear around 6400 a month depending on exchange rate at the time and its always high when its pay day. I left KBR cos they asked me to go to a camp which they told me was hit most days, wasn't to bothered by that what bothered me was i wasn't getting enough sparks and no materials to do the job ( 2 1200kva gens to be replaced, as gens were higher rating than what was there we also had to change transfer switch and add a panel to suit, o and run 4 240mm swa's from each gen to transfer and transfer to panel) alot off work with 2 sparks and none off the proper materials. KBR has alot off apprentices who do the work but can't sign it off, only journeymen or masters can do that. Don't want to put anyone off if you want a shot go for it, just be prepared cos what they gonna ask you to do out there will go against alot off what u have be doing for years.

Originally Posted by Neilios

It must be for the American Company KBR.

I know someone who is in Iraq, sleeping ten to a tent but he is on > £100,000.

I also know of others who have been for the interview and rejected >£112,000.

I have also read the documentation and job specs, one literally signs ones life away going to work for this bunch of chancers.

Do a google for KBR and read all about them.

£53,000 is not enough to work in a war zone.

They cannae get the yanks to go thus the UK recruitment drive.

if we had a backbone and stopped the employer taking the **** out of us and forcing us to work for agencies and fought back and got rid of all the unskilled labour doing our work at the moment there would be loads of work in the UK for electricians lending them our tools and showing them what to do has come back to haunt us