WIRELINE ISSUE 28 SUMMER 2014

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

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. Wireline 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 for many other businesses to thrive off the back of its success.”

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

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

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!”

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