I’m planning on it.. it’s becoming clear that there is no future plans for me there and I’m only employed as I’m a relative.
Thing is.. I’m not employed in an office based role. I’m the technical guy who receives the technical queries.. but if I had to list the amount of stuff I’m expected to achieve I’d be here sometime.
As a little example.. I’m expected to read all of the inboxes plus sent messages from our email accounts every evening to keep up to speed with what everyone is doing. I have to formulate specific risk assessments and method states for all engineers for who I organise a project. I also need to read all other outgoing risk assessments and method statements to ensure I know what everyone is doing.
I have a planner in my office where I list the ongoing projects and upcoming projects to allow for easy planning of engineers, I will the create said risk assessments and method statements and forward these to the customers for HSE acceptance. However.. I am not informed of any other projects in the pipeline which may clash and therefore I have to delay or cancel the projects I have organised to make way for the projects I was unaware of.
It’s just frustrating as hell, it’s a well paid job but I’ve been there so long (11 years) that my qualifications are now null and void.
Last month I won an international award for a diploma paper I passed earlier this year.. it was voted by a committee of 54 people to be the best paper of the year. There were papers from the USA, UK, Europe and Middle East submitted.
I collected said award in person, it is now displayed in the main office and I was told this week it was the companies investment in me that made the award possible not my actual effort.