Getting into Engineering & Manufacturing

Industry Insights

Engineering 
Manufacturing   
Find out about getting into the industry.  Includes information on: job roles, typical employers, future trends, case studies and further links.

Job profiles within the Industry

Engineering & Manufacturing Job Profiles include:

  • Aeronautical Engineer
  • Automotive Engineer
  • Biomedical Engineer
  • Chemical Development Engineer
  • Communications Engineer
  • Control and Instrumentation Engineer
  • Electrical Engineer
  • Electronics Engineer
  • Maintenance Engineer
  • Manufacturing Engineer
  • Manufacturing Systems Engineer
  • Materials Engineer
  • Mechanical Engineer
  • Naval Architect
  • Process Engineer
  • Production Manager
  • Quality Assurance Manager
  • Technical Brewer
  • Technical Sales Engineer
  • Telecommunications Researcher

Each job role includes information on: what the role involves, salary expectations, entry requirements, sources of vacancies and further links.

Additional Websites (not included in job profiles)

Please note: The link above will take you through to many other websites with information about getting into the industry.  The following links are ones that are NOT included in the above:

Target Jobs - Engineering
Sector specific information.

Inside Careers
Find out about working in Engineering , and access the electronic version of ‘Engineering & Technology’.

Guardian, CV Clinic
Student, wanting to apply for an engineering graduate scheme with a telecommunications firm, has his CV looked at by somebody in the industry.

Real World Engineering
Student guide about looking for work in the engineering sector.

Guardian, A working life: Brewer
Day in the life of a Brewer.

Eureka
Engineering design magazine.  Back copies available.

Science & Engineering.Net
Find out about courses worldwide.

Targetjobs – European sector overview
Engineering sector across Europe.

Targetjobs – European sector overview for Automotive Industry
Automotive industry in Europe.

Engineering recruiter event
Notes taken at an engineering recruiter event in 2009.

Everything Aerospace
Series of e-journals about getting into the industry.

Institute of the Motor Industry
Includes a careers section.

Eureka on Campus
Electronic journal for engineering students. 

Careers in International Merchant Shipping 
Includes a section on Careers at Sea.

World Shipping Directory
Includes a search facility for marine related companies.

Clic and Sea
Jobs board for the maritime industry.

Kinetica
Includes engineering vacancies.

Careers in Engineering
Supplement from the Daily Telegraph.

Career Driven
Independent e-journal.

Career options in engineering
Guardian live Q & A, 15th March 2012

Articles

How to get into engineering
Guardian, 6th April 2012

UK carmakers aim to woo engineers
BBC News, 28th June 2011

Power industry to re-energise skills
Telegraph, 29th August 2010

Space: the final career frontier
Guardian, 11th April 2010

State of engineering: what graduates should know about the sector
Guardian, 12th March 2012

Employer Profiles

Visit our Employer Profiles and learn about organisations recruiting from your field of study, their graduate recruitment cycle, contact details and much more.

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