Jobs in Engineering

Welcome to Professional Outlooks engineering resource page. If youre looking for employment in the engineering specialty and possess experience, please review the general types of engineers we place and follow the link to perform an engineering-specific search of our current job openings. Please also feel free to contact one of our engineering placement specialists for further assistance.

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If youre considering a career in engineering, you may wish to skip ahead and read the job outlook supplied by the U.S. Department of labor and follow the links to specialization descriptions for Chemical, Process, and Environmental and Health and Safety engineers.

Management/Executive Level
Project Manager
Production/Operations Manager
Engineering Manager
Technical Manager
Maintenance/Reliability Manager
Plant Manager
Chemical Engineering
Process / Tech Service
Process Design
Project
Product/Process Development
Production
Controls
Economics & Planning
Electrical Engineering
Electrical Design
Power Distribution
Controls
Instrumentation
Mechanical Engineering
Project
Maintenance
Reliability
Rotating Equipment
Fixed Equipment
Facilities/Utilities
Other Technical Positions
Inspection
Environmental Engineering
EPA Compliance
Air/Title V
Hazardous Solid Waste
Waste Water
Permitting
Remediation
Industrial Safety
OSHA Compliance
Process Safety Management
Ergonomics
Security
Industrial Hygiene
Toxicology
Product Safety

Labor Board Statistics about Jobs in Engineering

In 2006, the most recent date for which statistics are available, engineers held about 1.5 million jobs. The distribution of employment by engineering specialty follows:

Civil engineers 256,000
Mechanical engineers 227,000
Industrial engineers 201,000
Electrical engineers 153,000
Electronics engineers, except computer 138,000
Aerospace engineers 90,000
Computer hardware engineers 79,000
Environmental engineers 54,000
Chemical engineers 30,000
Health and safety engineers, except mining safety engineers and inspectors 25,000
Materials engineers 22,000
Petroleum engineers 17,000
Nuclear engineers 15,000
Biomedical engineers 14,000
Marine engineers and naval architects 9,200
Mining and geological engineers, including mining safety engineers 7,100
Agricultural engineers 3,100
All other engineers 170,000

About 37 percent of engineering jobs were found in manufacturing industries and another 28 percent were in the professional, scientific, and technical services sector, primarily in architectural, engineering, and related services. Many engineers also worked in the construction, telecommunications, and wholesale trade industries.

Federal, State, and local governments employed about 12 percent of engineers in 2006. About half of these were in the Federal Government, mainly in the U.S. Departments of Defense, Transportation, Agriculture, Interior, and Energy, and in the National Aeronautics and Space Administration. Most engineers in State and local government agencies worked in highway and public works departments. In 2006, about 3 percent of engineers were self-employed, many as consultants.

Engineers are employed in every State, in small and large cities and in rural areas. Some branches of engineering are concentrated in particular industries and geographic areasfor example, petroleum engineering jobs tend to be located in areas with sizable petroleum deposits, such as Texas, Louisiana, Oklahoma, Alaska, and California. Others, such as civil engineering, are widely dispersed, and engineers in these fields often move from place to place to work on different projects.

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