Advanced manufacturing and engineering

Advanced manufacturing and engineering

In Worcestershire there are lots of organisations that offer positions in Engineering. For example, Mazak LTD, Worcester Bosch and Jacobs Engineering.

 

Engineering can take a variety of forms – civil, military, electrical, chemical or mechanical but the term ‘engineering industry’ is normally used in a more limited sense to describe the industry devoted to the manufacture of engines, machine-tools, and machinery. 

Design engineering can be an exciting and rewarding career as at the end of the process you will have a finished product. Engineers may use CAD and 3D printers to design. Maintenance engineers could work on the front line of a factory diagnosing breakdown problems, ordering parts and fixing machines. Maintenance engineers work in all fields of engineering.

For the manufacturing and engineering sector, bridging the skills gap is a huge challenge that can only be achieved by reaching out to the next generation. Currently, £993m of Worcestershire’s GVA is attributed to Advanced Manufacturing & Engineering with around 28,130 people employed in this area.

In Worcestershire, the demand and interest for jobs in the advanced manufacturing and engineering sector is ever-changing.

We have gathered data from the last six months to highlight the supply and demand within this sector, the demand for apprenticeships and the top employers hiring in this sector.

Engineering: what you need to know

There are lots of different types of Engineers: 

Mechanical Engineer

These jobs understand how forces act on solid objects, how liquids and gases behave, and how energy is converted into something else. They use this knowledge to design machines and develop things like fans, turbines and power plants.

Civil Engineer

These people understand how to design and built man-made things in our world. This includes building, bridges, roads, railways and tunnels. Civil engineers need to understand how forces act on objects and how fluids behave, including how this relates to geology.

Electrical Engineer

These engineers understand how electricity works, how to generate it and use it. The often work on generating electricity from renewable resources, working in power stations, and helping to provide buildings with heat and power. 

Chemical Engineer

People in these roles understand how chemicals react with one another to form new substances, and how to create these reactions on a large scale. These people might work in facilities producing food, fertilisers, plastics of pharmaceuticals.

In each engineering area, there a lots of job roles to choose from.

Here are some of the main roles:

Research and development: researching new areas that have not bee investigated before.

Design engineering: working on a project before construction and manufacturing takes place to make sure the design is detailed and works correctly.

Project engineering: this means you will manage engineering or construction projected to make sure they are finished safely, on time, in budget and meeting your clients’ expectations.

Get started on your future: what you'll need

You’ll need design skills and knowledge, thinking and reasoning skills, problem-solving skills, to be thorough and pay attention to detail and analytical thinking skills.

Explore jobs in this sector

• Red - Formal Qualifications required – GCSE’s grades 4-9 , Level 3 Qualifications , A levels, or Degree
• Amber - Some Formal Qualifications may be required at Level 2 depending on the employer this will vary depending on the organisation and position
• Green - No formal Qualification required

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