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Embracing a new culture
Rachel McIntyre has shown an appetite for venturing into the unknown and trying
new things. After all, not many people would move to a new city with no job.
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chats to the now commercial co-ordinator at Magma Products as she
“learns the language” of oil and gas.
F
ollowing a year out travelling
across 11 countries in Europe,
Rachel McIntyre might not have
moved too far from her hometown in Fife
when she settled in Aberdeen, but the
move still marked a departure into new
territory for the 26-year-old. As with all
the challenges she has taken on so far, she
reasons “you’re only young once!”
Rachel returned home to Scotland in 2013
and zeroed in on Aberdeen as the place
to start her career. “I decided to move to
Aberdeen without a job, purely because
I saw it was a robust economy,” she says.
“I only had to read the papers to confirm
the economy’s status. It’s the oil capital
of Europe, with the oil and gas sector the
main employer and bringing opportunities
for many other businesses to thrive off the
back of its success.”
The gamble paid off. After three months
she spotted and secured an opportunity in
August 2013 to work at Magma Products,
a specialist offshore commissioning and
start-up services company. The role of
commercial co-ordinator complemented
Working as part of a small growing company, Rachel
McIntyre, commercial co-ordinator at Magma Products,
is being exposed to high-level activity early on in her career.
She would advise others to explore the opportunities
available in the upstream oil and gas supply chain
