Engineering – Potential Job Roles and Salaries

What kind of roles would I be suitable for based on my engineering background?
If you have an engineering background with at least 2 to 3+ years factory floor experience, here are some of the potential job roles you could retrain into and the expected salaries.

Instrumentation Engineer

Provision of computer programming and instrumentation support as well as designing and developing specialised instrumentation and equipment as required.

Process Engineer

Responsible for designing, implementing, controlling and optimizing industrial processes, especially continuous ones within the chemical, petrochemical, agriculture, mineral processing, advanced material, food, pharmaceutical, and biotechnological industries.

Manufacturing Engineer

Responsible for development, design, implementation and monitoring of equipment, tools and machinery used in the manufacturing process. Their primary goal is to create the stages of a manufacturing system that ultimately produces a product in the most time-efficient and cost-effective way possible, while always maintaining staff safety and product quality.

Project Engineer

Manages technical or engineering projects. They work with stakeholders at all levels, with direct responsibility for budgeting, personnel and project planning.