What can I do with a HNC Electrical Engineering

[Astolat]

Where in UK do you live ? Most Utility companies have well paid apprenticeships if you can take a bit of financial hit for a year or two.
For example WPD pay design trainees (need HNC electrical engineering) £28K. Should add they pretty much don't need to know anything about BS 7671 so you're halfway there already!

I think that the OP may have put the cart before the horse here. It is a bit like all the snowflakes who go to UNI paying large tuition fees and end up with a large student load and a job filling shel in Tesco’s. You may find a DNO who will take you in as a trainee engineer and after you have done their training the money is very good and you can keep your hands clean.

back in the sixties I started with the LEB ( London Electricity Board ) as a trainee engineer. I had one A level therefore no good for UNI but I did ONC year 2 and then HNC in Electrical and Electronic Engineering. I learnt a lot on the job and got some really good hands on experience. After four and a quarter years I passed out and was offered a job as a heavy current distribution engineer with the LEB.

i can honestly say that from that day on the only part of my HNC that I used at work was Ohms Law. The rest was H&S or based on my previous on the job training. It was a good job, and though the hours were long and lots of emergency call outs, I throughly enjoyed it and it gave myself and my family a good standard of living. I got out soon after Margaret Thatcher sold off the Nationalised ESI.

so I suggest that the OP gives one of the DNOs a try.

 

[David Prosser]

Western Power Distribution Careers - Electricity Network - Planning and Design Trainee Job - Redruth - Ref: wpower/TP/12/338

Joining us as a Planning & Design Trainee, you will learn all about designing, costing and quoting projects for new electricity supplies and the replacement / diversion and reinforcement of existing electricity network assets. You will take part in detailed technical discussions with customers...

careers.westernpower.co.uk

£28K in Redruth !! For a trainee !!!

 

[Trey N. Hay]

I think that the OP may have put the cart before the horse here. It is a bit like all the snowflakes who go to UNI paying large tuition fees and end up with a large student load and a job filling shel in Tesco’s. You may find a DNO who will take you in as a trainee engineer and after you have done their training the money is very good and you can keep your hands clean.

back in the sixties I started with the LEB ( London Electricity Board ) as a trainee engineer. I had one A level therefore no good for UNI but I did ONC year 2 and then HNC in Electrical and Electronic Engineering. I learnt a lot on the job and got some really good hands on experience. After four and a quarter years I passed out and was offered a job as a heavy current distribution engineer with the LEB.

i can honestly say that from that day on the only part of my HNC that I used at work was Ohms Law. The rest was H&S or based on my previous on the job training. It was a good job, and though the hours were long and lots of emergency call outs, I throughly enjoyed it and it gave myself and my family a good standard of living. I got out soon after Margaret Thatcher sold off the Nationalised ESI.

so I suggest that the OP gives one of the DNOs a try.

I completed the HNC a while ago while working for a DNO. Don't want to go into the details but the training hasn't really materialised. Rather than flog a dead horse I am looking at other options.

 

[KennyKen]

Turbine companies love Graduate engineers to Train. G/E, Siemens, Mitzibushi and my Employer. Plus you can live anywhere as long as it’s 90mins from an Airport.

 

[telectrix]

Turbine companies love Graduate engineers to Train. G/E, Siemens, Mitzibushi and my Employer. Plus you can live anywhere as long as it’s 90mins from an Airport.

guess that rules out the \Outback then.

 

[Ray Pooley]

It's even worse with gas... you could have been the bloke who designed the boiler, made the boiler or be the worlds most eminent boiler technician... but unless you've paid your membership fees to gas safe... it's illegal to touch it ! The concept of 'competence' is totally irrelevant !

It's called Protectionism. It was big in the US in the late 1960s. Jimmy Hoffer was an ardent supporter. They still haven't found his remains to this day.
[automerge]1587567671[/automerge]

My situation: I have completed a HNC in Electrical Engineering but do not currently work in a technical role. I would like to change to a more hands-on role or at least more technical role (or at least one with room for development).

A role in electrical maintenance (industrial) would be ideal, although this is based on nothing more than my own research, but the only entry level roles appear to be four year apprenticeships that simply won't work with my personal circumstances - I don't live at home with mum and dad.

Although I have a HNC, I am in the perhaps strange position of possessing no other electrical qualifications. Is the HNC on its own worth anything on its own?

If you are looking for a role as an Electrician, as most people perceive it, then, to be fair, writing as someone who went through the whole marathon of HNC, HND and BSc Mechanical and Electrical Engineering many moons ago, nothing you learn throughout that prepares you for installing electrical installations either domestic or corporate. The principles of electricity you will know but that's a very small part of the process. The conditions and rules specific to how you select and install the equipment that goes together to comprise an electrical installation are voluminous and you really need to be aware of them as you go about the business. There are some fast track courses that purport to get you to certification in as little as 8 weeks of classroom tuition but they are a bit pricey. They do seem legitimate. That could be one pathway if you could put the finance together. Consider it an investment and it could actually be considered a legitimate start up expense and therefore tax deductable if you set up your own Ltd company as a service provider.