Motorman Jobs

Motorman nature of work

A motorman is the member of the oil rig crew responsible for maintenance of the engines. While all members of the oil rig crew help with major repairs, the motorman does routine preventive maintenance, minor repairs, drive trucks and operate specialized hydraulic pumping systems to place cement in wells or to treat wells with chemicals, sand mixtures or gases to stimulate production.

Motormen are employed by oil drilling and well service contractors and by petroleum producing companies.

Motorman work conditions

The motorman usually works long hard days on extended roster systems and either outdoors in all weather conditions or underground. The motorman work is generally hard and physically demanding. Progression to oil and gas well driller or service rig operator is possible with experience.

Motorman duties and tasks

The motorman may perform some or all of the following tasks:

• Align and manipulate sections of pipe or drill stem from a platform on the rig derrick during the removal and replacement of strings of pipe, or drill stem and drill bit
• Assemble pumping equipment and attach pumps and hoses to wellhead
• Assist in setting up, taking down and transporting drilling and service rigs
• Drive well services truck to well site
• May mix chemicals and cements
• Operate and maintain drilling mud systems and pumps during drilling, and mix mud chemicals and additives
• Operate and maintain drilling rig diesel motors, transmissions and other mechanical equipment
• Operate hydraulic pumping systems to pump chemicals, gases, sand, cement or other material into well
• Read gauges to monitor pressure, density, rate and concentration and adjust pumping procedure as required
• Record mudflows and volumes and take samples
• Supervise floorhands and laborers
• Perform other tasks as needed

If you are able to meet these requirements and you are motivated to be part of highly motivated team of people please, apply for a motorman position through one of the links below:

New York Daily News

The Brooklyn barber shop that's up all night New York Daily News “I would follow this man around the world,” said B-train motorman Aikido Sticatto, 36, who visits Ryan once a week, usually after 10 pm “The children are sleeping. I can get away from my wife.” Sticatto plans to start taking his toddler son to ... and more »

Mid-Day

Motormen may get sneak peek at metro coaches Mid-Day To make its current and future fleet of local trains motormen-friendly, the Mumbai suburban rail network that first chugged more than a 100 years ago, will now be taking a cue from the ongoing Metro rail project that is still in its nascent stage. ...

Telegraph.co.uk

Leveson Inquiry: as it happened January 11 Telegraph.co.uk The police investigation, codenamed Operation Motorman, was the subject of a report into media ethics by the Information Commissioner, which found that 33 MoS journalists had commissioned Whittamore a total of 266 times. 14:41 Peter Wright's evidence ... Timeline: Mail on Sunday and private investigator Steve WhittamoreThe Guardian Mail on Sunday quizzed over Whittamore linksFinancial Times Mail on Sunday paid private investigator after his arrestThe Independent Press Gazette -Journalism.co.uk all 1,360 news articles »

Thousands of people whose personal data was illegally targeted by a private detective will not be informed, the Information Commissioner said yesterday – claiming his overstretched office does not have the resources to cope.
 
The information commissioner Christopher Graham has responded to calls from campaign group Hacked Off for his office to notify those targeted by private investigator Steve Whittamore, the subject of the commissioner's 2005 Operation Motorman investigation.
 
Information commissioner rejects call from Hacked Off campaign, saying it would not be possible to notify victims identified by Operation Motorman but he is open to individual requests
 
I have seen the Operation Motorman files and the thousands of names of targeted individuals. Some of them are instantly recognisable as high-profile figures from the worlds of entertainment, politics and sport. Others are members of the public who are not household names, but came on to the radar of the media, which paid a private detective to check them out.