Galleyhand Offshore Jobs

Galleyhand job description and career outlook: this is an entry level job on offshore oil rigs that provides ideal way to see and test whether offshore career is for someone, who is not yet sure he or she would like confronting the atrocities, involved in working on oil drilling floor on open air in riskier and very physically demanding positions like Roustabout or Driller Helper (Roughneck). What makes the other difference at the stage of trying to get one's very first entry-level job on offshore rigs, getting on offshore oil rigs is much easier through becoming first a Galleyhand in catering department.

It's drilling contractors that hire Roustabouts, Painters, Rope Access Technicians, Driller Helpers and other entry level personnel involved in the drilling process or servicing machinery and mechanisms that can be found on offshore oil platform, drillship, or MODU. From the other hand, it is catering contractors that are contracted for carrying out catering tasks by the oil drilling companies that hire Galleyhands and other offshore catering staff to fill entry level and non entry level offshore catering positions.

Besides being almost sterile job, compared to the dirtiest and the most unpleasant duties and responsibilities of roustabouts and roughnecks, the Galleyhand vacancy is easier to qualify for. For Galleyhand position candidate is required to be physically healthy and to be able to prove having worked for some time as dishwasher, or waiter's helper, junior cook, busboy, or a prep cook at hotel or restaurant, or whatever having to do with a kitchen or food preparation line on land. Also in a position of an offshore Galleyhand you should be ready to demonstrate readiness to obey and quickly do, what asked for or ordered by chef, senior cooks, stewards, or Camp Boss.

Though being not even twice as less demanding as the jobs of offshore laborers in other departments, Galleyhand on offshore rig should be expected to endure easily enough long night shifts when you perform a range of successive tasks in high tempo, hardly having time to have a snack yourself, whilst being engaged in the process of food preparation or assisting to bake bread and rolls to Night Baker.

Offshore Galleyhand's day to day duties and responsibilities could include also big number of different small and minor tasks, for example: Galleyhand may be charged with responsibility to ensure that leftover food is stored or utilized in conformity with existing instructions and make the required records of that, to test the food temperature in the course of cooking etc. - all that being done in addition to his regular kitchen maintenance related duties like emptying trash containers, washing pots and dishes (sometimes Dishwashers and Potwashers are separate positions that are inferior even to Galleyhand).

Employment Availability and Salary

No offshore or land based rig can do without kitchen, and no kitchen on oil rig can do without Galleyhands, be it in UAE, Canada, North Sea UK, the Gulf of Mexico, or India. Working offshore as Galleyhand, one can expect to earn the salary around $US 34,000 - $US 38,000, including bonuses for working overtime whenever needed. Physical requirements: do not apply, unless you are a candidate having no problem to lift/carry up to 50 pounds of weight from one place to another, climb up and down stairs frequently, remain on feet entire shift, that's 12 hours in a row while working in different Galley Hand/Utility Hand positions.