Trainees should meet one or more of the following requirements:
1) A nationally-recognised technical or trade qualification (military service qualification
and/or an appropriate level national vocational qualification is acceptable) completed in
one or more of the following subjects:
a) electrical
b) electronic
c) hydraulics
d) mechanics.
and a minimum of three years’ technically relevant industrial experience (including any
accepted training period) in an appropriate discipline relating to the above subjects, which
should have been obtained within the previous four years.
2) A nationally-recognised, higher (tertiary) academic qualification (not otherwise covered
above) in a relevant technical subject; plus a minimum of one year of technically
relevant industrial experience, which can be secured as a feature of the entry into the
ROV industry, i.e. a university graduate may go directly to a suitable establishment to
secure the minimum of one year of relevant industrial experience, which may be with
the employer.
3) In certain circumstances, candidates who do not meet the criteria above but have
extensive industrial experience, or an appropriate technical qualification or industrial
training course supported by evidence and references, may be acceptable.