George Forbes

Background

About George Forbes

Currently Senior workshop assistant with WIS who recently purchased Drilco worldwide with whom I have been employed with for the past 34 years. Started of working in the pipe yard of our machine shop in Bridge of Don, this entailed the movement of equipment in and out of the workshop. receipting of tools and shipping. Qualified and highly experienced in the handling of tubulars including Sideloader, counterbalance forklift, Combilift. slinger banksman, gantry crane, Phosphating, Bead Blasting and all manner of processes involved within a busy machine shop and pipe yard. As my career progressed I took on the roll of Materials Foreman with a team working under my supervision, this led to more training in the supervisory side of thing including completing my SQA L & D9DI competency assessors course. Moving on from that we then became part of Schlumberger where we continued to surpass customer requirement's and the move to a brand new facility located in Badentoy industrial park bringing us up to the present with the acquisition of Drilco by Wellbore Integrity Solutions.