STARTING YOUR CAREER
The
projecT
engineer
name: Andrei Rece
Age: 30
home country: Romania
University: Technical University of Cluj-Napoca
current position: Project engineer, based in the
UK, with Foster Wheeler, a global engineering
and construction contractor
A
ndrei Rece studied Engineering company works, rather than just focusing on
at the Technical University of their own area. He adds that in continental
Cluj-Napoca, in Romania. In his Europe, the Middle East and Asia, having a
final year, alongside his studies, he began business education is often a prerequisite for
working part time in the university’s rapid moving into a managerial role.
prototyping department for unconventional
technologies, often having to work nights After three years with the company he began
and study by day. looking for another job and a recruitment
agency sent him details of a vacancy with
After finishing his degree he studied for GlaxoSmithKline, in the UK. He was
a Masters of Engineering in Design of interviewed in Romania and got the job, but
Advanced Technologies, while working at just as he was about to start he was told the
a local engineering firm. “The salary wasn’t position had fallen through. Luckily he found
“Working abroad gives
as good as I would have wanted but the job a job with the engineering company Foster
you a different view
gave me a chance to work with the latest Wheeler, also in the UK.
about the world and your
technology,” he says. “It was challenging for
me and it was a good experience.” Now a project engineer, Andrei’s works
profession, and that can
on oil and gas projects, co-ordinating the
be really helpful in all
With his Masters gained, he took an construction of new plants. His work takes
engineering with job with one of one of him around Europe, working with the sub-
aspects of your life”
Romania’s biggest pharmaceutical companies. contractors who build components for the
– Andrei Rece
He soon moved into a more managerial plants. He hopes to get a role as a project
role but realised that in Romania, to be manager in the next two to four years and
formally recognised as a manager requires says he would have no hesitation in moving
a management qualification, so he began a country again for the right job.
Masters in Business Administration, juggling
his studies with long hours at work. “It was “Working abroad is a good experience
a tough period in my life, studying and and it represents a completion for the
working,” he recalls. “The work was pretty knowledge gained in school,” Rece
serious, we did long hours and I had to go concludes. “It gives you a different view
to school at least three times a week – but about the world and your profession, and
I managed it.” that can be a really helpful in all aspects of
your life. I’ve been very lucky that I had the
Rece says getting some kind of additional courage to do it.”
Above
business education can be useful for engineers,
According to Andrei Rece, a business
education can be useful for engineers giving them an insight into how their whole
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