Production and Process Engineers

Overview

  • Production and process engineers advise on and direct technical aspects of production programmes to ensure cost-effectiveness and efficiency. This unit group incorporates: planning and quality control engineers who plan production schedules, work sequences, and manufacturing and processing procedures to ensure accuracy, quality and reliability; and chemical engineers who undertake research on commercial scale chemical processes and processed products, design and provide specifications and direct the construction, operation, maintenance and repair of chemical plants and control systems.
  • £ 42223

Amount of people employed as

1546 people employed as Production and Process Engineers in the current year.

Educational Requirements

Honours, Bachelor's degree

Percent Female

9.78

Percent male

90.21

Annual Openings

71

Employment Current

1546

National Lq

1.03