I suppose this would sort of depend on what your long term goals are. Does being a supervisor get you going in the right direction for your current career vision?
Lots of Factors: 1. Do you want to be in the nuclear industry? If so direct nuclear experience may be desirable.
2. Do you want to be management track or stay an individual contributor. If management is your goal, the supervisor role may be desirable.
3. What is your growth potential in your current role and in the supervisory role. What is the company out look. I know plenty of nuclear plants have been decommissioning. Is that something you need to plan for 3-5-10yr out? 3a. Just out of curiosity, I see you work for Southern Company. Is there a chance you work at Vogtle?
4. I know you asked specifically about experience value but also weigh the compensation aspect as well. Some industries pay better than others. I know nuclear tends to be on the higher end of TC for non-software engineers.
The first thing to evaluate would be what engineering specialty you have, I suppose you are a chemical engineer, the second thing is to see what type of engineer you consider yourself to be, in the production centers you will open up a very broad career path since many of the processes to produce different things are similar, therefore that experience allows you to learn about many things, on the other hand, there is the experience in nuclear energy, there are few in the world who dedicate themselves to this, which means that it is not a varied experience but it is quite important, That is, you will always have work.
If I got offered a promotion 6 months into a job, I would take it as a sign that I'm doing something really well. Do you have into interest whatsoever in that role?
As for some of the potential cons, I would considered the added stress of bigger responsibilities and having an entire team depending on you. Not everyone is cut out for it so you should consider whether this is even something that is in alignment with your strengths and the areas where you would like to grow. That being said, the only way to really know if you're cut out for it is to give it a try. If you end up not performing as well as you'd like or not liking the position at all it's always in the cards to downshift
Valuable experience with regards to what goal exactly? If you want to have a manager/exec role then pursuing this promotion might be in your best interest, but if you like being part of a team as opposed to leading one, then you might wanna hold out until another offer that is more aligned with what you have in mind for your future.
I think this depends on what you define as valuable. For me career success is entirely measured by how much money I bring home. If the biggest paycheck available to me is from being a manager then I'm happy to do that but I would transfer without a second thought if a better opportunity arised. I know it's a bit basic or not very flashy but I got bills to pay and a family to help raise. What would you say your priorities are?
Hey thanks for all the comments, the salary is pretty much equal to my current salary, but the shift supervisor position would pay OT at 1.5x where as my current position doesn’t pay OT (usually). I’m a mechanical engineer fwiw
SNC is pretty laid back, idk where your from but nuclear plants are normally in pretty remote locations, not necessarily bad just something to keep in mind. Training is intense, it’s a really long process (like 18 months) and if you don’t have a qualification you basically can’t do anything or at least you can’t do it your self. Bonus structure is really nice, and nuclear tends to pay well also, but you have a refueling outage yearly, at least for us idk if different schedules are out there. In the outage I’ve been told you wear a lot more hats and basically do whatever engineering work is required to support the plant on a 12 hour shift. We’ve had a couple of smaller maintenance outages and the 12s aren’t really that bad, especially if you have work to keep you busy. Also, Work tends to be really hands off which I don’t like at all
Zemoso I've cleared two technical rounds with this company. After salary discussion they again scheduled one more technical round with senior architect. Would that be more technical or managerial round? How to handle it.
I suppose this would sort of depend on what your long term goals are. Does being a supervisor get you going in the right direction for your current career vision?
Lots of Factors:
1. Do you want to be in the nuclear industry? If so direct nuclear experience may be desirable.
2. Do you want to be management track or stay an individual contributor. If management is your goal, the supervisor role may be desirable.
3. What is your growth potential in your current role and in the supervisory role. What is the company out look. I know plenty of nuclear plants have been decommissioning. Is that something you need to plan for 3-5-10yr out?
3a. Just out of curiosity, I see you work for Southern Company. Is there a chance you work at Vogtle?
4. I know you asked specifically about experience value but also weigh the compensation aspect as well. Some industries pay better than others. I know nuclear tends to be on the higher end of TC for non-software engineers.
The first thing to evaluate would be what engineering specialty you have, I suppose you are a chemical engineer, the second thing is to see what type of engineer you consider yourself to be, in the production centers you will open up a very broad career path since many of the processes to produce different things are similar, therefore that experience allows you to learn about many things, on the other hand, there is the experience in nuclear energy, there are few in the world who dedicate themselves to this, which means that it is not a varied experience but it is quite important, That is, you will always have work.
If I got offered a promotion 6 months into a job, I would take it as a sign that I'm doing something really well. Do you have into interest whatsoever in that role?
As for some of the potential cons, I would considered the added stress of bigger responsibilities and having an entire team depending on you. Not everyone is cut out for it so you should consider whether this is even something that is in alignment with your strengths and the areas where you would like to grow. That being said, the only way to really know if you're cut out for it is to give it a try. If you end up not performing as well as you'd like or not liking the position at all it's always in the cards to downshift
Valuable experience with regards to what goal exactly? If you want to have a manager/exec role then pursuing this promotion might be in your best interest, but if you like being part of a team as opposed to leading one, then you might wanna hold out until another offer that is more aligned with what you have in mind for your future.
I think this depends on what you define as valuable. For me career success is entirely measured by how much money I bring home. If the biggest paycheck available to me is from being a manager then I'm happy to do that but I would transfer without a second thought if a better opportunity arised. I know it's a bit basic or not very flashy but I got bills to pay and a family to help raise. What would you say your priorities are?
If you are interested in pursuing this path, here's a pretty good read on leadership, nurturing continuous growth, and rising to the top https://theskip.substack.com/p/three-crucial-skills-that-leaders
Hey thanks for all the comments, the salary is pretty much equal to my current salary, but the shift supervisor position would pay OT at 1.5x where as my current position doesn’t pay OT (usually). I’m a mechanical engineer fwiw
how is it working at Southern so far though? i am looking to switch to a different field In engr and I was looking at Exelon, SC and more.
SNC is pretty laid back, idk where your from but nuclear plants are normally in pretty remote locations, not necessarily bad just something to keep in mind. Training is intense, it’s a really long process (like 18 months) and if you don’t have a qualification you basically can’t do anything or at least you can’t do it your self. Bonus structure is really nice, and nuclear tends to pay well also, but you have a refueling outage yearly, at least for us idk if different schedules are out there. In the outage I’ve been told you wear a lot more hats and basically do whatever engineering work is required to support the plant on a 12 hour shift. We’ve had a couple of smaller maintenance outages and the 12s aren’t really that bad, especially if you have work to keep you busy.
Also, Work tends to be really hands off which I don’t like at all