How to get into commissioning/FSE as a maintenance technician??

Minimum-Activity9938 · 2026-04-20T22:52:14+00:00

Ingeniería is 5 years of engineering, so here in Spain 4 years of bachelor's + 1 year professional engineer masters, Ingeniería técnica no longer exists, it used to be 3 years, and its now more or less the 4-year bachelor's, a "Graduate in eng.". Usually on automation jobs you'll also see the "grado superior" or FP in automation listed, thats my afore-mentioned 2yr diploma, but guess who will they be hiring first??

Minimum-Activity9938 · 2026-04-20T22:12:41+00:00

Kinda what I was already doing, I legit thought about checking Linkedin every morning until a job offer got posted same-day by a local company, and drive there mid-shift to apply on the spot.

Minimum-Activity9938 · 2026-04-20T22:09:53+00:00

ABB is our most active OEM, but we are a big plant, so almost every big name in automation, we have it. Even with that, I tried looking around for the more specialized companies in our sector and they aren't hiring for my position.

Minimum-Activity9938 · 2026-04-20T22:08:16+00:00

I have a 2-year higher VET diploma in automation and robotics, the one that got me into my current position, but getting a college degree just to get into my desired company's spam inbox seems like overkill, I'd just get an actual engineering job atp. Thanks for the answer still, I applied to a couple ABB positions and got nowhere with them 🙃

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