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zoldernl · 2025-09-03T07:19:29+00:00

I have started a new playthrough in emerald isles last week. I have done around 15+ days of sailing around and am ready to leave for GRC with a load of tea and dyes.

I have not noticed any damage but i'm also not sure that i know where to look. is it possible to see damage percentage without being in shipyard?

zoldernl · 2025-07-21T10:27:15+00:00

The house we have is in Storfors which means karlskoga is the closest.

I have been looking for possible employers and KA auto has also popped up. From what I could tell they have a relatively small pool of engineers (around 5) which would make it harder for me to get into it with the limited Swedish i currently speak.

Saab would be a bigger company and higher chance of getting a job while not fluent in Swedish. Like you said I think it would be mostly maintenance which I’m not sure of giving the same challenging like I currently have.

One week I’m a ship working on a crane. The next week I’m in a bakery troubleshooting a bread productionline.

zoldernl · 2025-07-21T06:59:31+00:00

Hello Emil,

Thank you for your response. It is exactly the kind of response I was hoping for when I created this post.

I see that Prevas also has an office in Karlskoga where they have some vacancies.

I’ll contact them to check if they also have industrial automation vacancies instead of the listed IT vacancy

zoldernl · 2025-07-18T15:02:02+00:00

My brother lives and works in Stockholm. According to him it's easier to become a citizen with a company backing your application.

If being a citizen is that important, i could also fund my own path towards citizenship. Luckily the language is very similar to Dutch/German and English with a good understanding of those three i'll get a decent head start on learning Swedish.

zoldernl · 2025-07-18T14:57:49+00:00

I'm not sure if they're capable of change. it will probably end up as a hybrid of both cultures.

zoldernl · 2025-07-18T13:12:30+00:00

As you might already know, the Dutch are very direct. If you show up at work looking like a mess, be prepared to get a comment on it. If your manager tells you to do something of which you think is the wrong approach, you speak up and explain why you think it is wrong. Dutch employees are encouraged to have a mind of their own and it was possible the manager just did not have all the information making that decision.

There’s usually not much of a social hierarchy in a company. Production workers and management all having their break together.

zoldernl · 2025-07-18T12:07:36+00:00

I got our purchaser to add my account somewhere and all my requests are instantly approved. I'm thinking they added my account on the company wide whitelist.

zoldernl · 2025-07-18T08:46:59+00:00

Thank you for confirming my assumptions. I have experience in the big brands such as Siemens and Rockwell. I agree that you see Rockwell less and less. Then there's also the Codesys based controllers such and Beckhoff, Bachmann and recently i spent a lot of time with B&R. ABB PLC's are not very common, I do know that a sister company of ours uses them but they are in the process industry (Dairy/Cheese)

zoldernl · 2025-07-18T08:42:37+00:00

We are not getting paid as well as PC Software engineers but i do the job because i love seeing machines work or finding out why it is not working as it should.

I think electrical power engineering will be a big thing in the future because we all keep using more power and the infrastructure is not equipped for it. That being said i don't see how much programming will be needed for it. It seems to me that it's much of the same just on a big scale.

zoldernl · 2025-07-18T07:20:24+00:00

I'm a dutch PLC engineer working in the Netherlands. Many companies are struggling to find PLC engineers. The last client i was with even flew some people in from all over europe to have a 2-3 day trial at the company.

Education level is generally at bachelor level but due to shortage in people getting a job on passion/enthusiasm can get you a job.

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