Manufacturing Engineers
Manufacturing Engineers
Bright Outlook
Career outlook for
Manufacturing Engineers
What's it like?
Design, integrate, or improve manufacturing systems or related processes. May work with commercial or industrial designers to refine product designs to increase productivity and decrease costs.
Working conditions
Tasks
- Troubleshoot new or existing product problems involving designs, materials, or processes.
- Investigate or resolve operational problems, such as material use variances or bottlenecks.
- Identify opportunities or implement changes to improve manufacturing processes or products or to reduce costs, using knowledge of fabrication processes, tooling and production equipment, assembly methods, quality control standards, or product design, materials and parts.
Top Skills
- Reading Comprehension.
- Mathematics.
- Complex Problem Solving.
- Active Listening.
- Speaking.
- Monitoring.
- Operation Monitoring.
- Judgment and Decision Making.
- Writing.
- Critical Thinking.
- Systems Analysis.
- Systems Evaluation.
- Technology.
- Time Management.
- Learning Strategies.
- Operations Analysis.
- Quality Control Analysis.
- Science.