Manufacturing Engineering Technologists
What they do:
Develop tools, implement designs, or integrate machinery, equipment, or computer technologies to ensure effective manufacturing processes.
On the job, you would:
- Recommend corrective or preventive actions to assure or improve product quality or reliability.
- Prepare layouts, drawings, or sketches of machinery or equipment, such as shop tooling, scale layouts, or new equipment design, using drafting equipment or computer-aided design (CAD) software.
- Identify and implement new manufacturing technologies, processes, or equipment.
Engineering and Technology
- product and service development
- mechanical
Math and Science
- arithmetic, algebra, geometry, calculus, or statistics
- physics
Manufactured or Agricultural Goods
- manufacture and distribution of products
Arts and Humanities
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Basic Skills
- thinking about the pros and cons of different ways to solve a problem
- using math to solve problems
Problem Solving
- noticing a problem and figuring out the best way to solve it
People and Technology Systems
- thinking about the pros and cons of different options and picking the best one
- figuring out how a system should work and how changes in the future will affect it
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Math
- choose the right type of math to solve a problem
- add, subtract, multiply, or divide
Ideas and Logic
- make general rules or come up with answers from lots of detailed information
- notice when problems happen
Verbal
- communicate by speaking
- listen and understand what people say
Visual Understanding
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People interested in this work like activities that include
practical, hands-on problems and solutions.
They do well at jobs that need:
- Attention to Detail
- Dependability
- Analytical Thinking
- Integrity
- Adaptability/Flexibility
- Persistence
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You might use software like this on the job:
Industrial control software
- MASS Group FactoryLink SCADA HMI
- National Instruments NI-DAQmx
Computer aided design CAD software
- Autodesk AutoCAD software
- Kubotek CADKEY Wireframe
Computer aided manufacturing CAM software
- Cimatron Group GibbsCAM
- Delcam software
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bachelor's degree or
associate's degree
usually needed
Get started on your career:
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New job opportunities are very likely in the future.
$58,670
per year, on average
This work is part of the .
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