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Job Opportunities for Mechanical Engineers

In Engineering field, Mechanical Engineering is one of the prime vertical and it has a wide range of job opportunities in various industries. Major Industries which have the bulk job opportunities for Mechanical Engineers are Automobile, aeronautical, marine & ship building, Tool & Machinery Manufacturing, Oil & Gas, Petrochemical, Industrial Construction, Thermal Power plant, Wind Energy etc. In functionality wise as well a wide range of opportunities are available from these industries. Fresh Mechanical Engineers while doing their final year of Engineering course itself they have to start studying the options available before them to make their choice in accordance with their interest in their job hunt industry and functionality wise. In the following paragraphs, Industry and functionality wise job opportunities available for Mechanical Engineers.

In Automobile sector, we can categories the companies into four types Viz 1) OEM 2) Auto Ancillary, 3) Automotive Engineering and 4) Retailers, Spare and service providers. In Auto OEM and Ancillary companies, Jobs for Mechanical engineers is available on various functional areas like Production, production planning, Assembly, production automation, Material management, Procurement, quality assurance & Quality Control, Safety, maintenance, Product design & development , R & D etc. In Auto OEMs the production activity can divided in to four major category viz Engine shop, Press shop, Assembly shop and paint shop in which expertise can be archived through Experience. In Automotive Engineering Companies, Jobs in Engineering Design, Engineering Project management, erection/ installation & commissioning are the major mechanical engineer opportunities

Tools ,Machineries and industry manufacturing companies as well has job opportunities with similar functionality like automobile. Here in production we can categorize the job openings depends on the various manufacturing or production, finishing, coating and painting technology technologies used. Manufacturing industry can be further classified based on the product category like, Air conditioning & Refrigeration, Industrial Machineries, Agricultural machineries, FMCG, Food processing Machineries etc.

EPC Industry (Engineering procurement Construction) undertakes industrial construction services i.e. from concept to commissioning of industrial plants. Particularly in INDIA Major job opportunities in the EPC companies are from Oil & Gas and power plant EPC projects. In which the following job categories are available for mechanical engineers,

• Mechanical / Equipment Design Engineer design engineer which can be classified further in to two types (i) Static Equipment Design Engineer and (ii) Rotary Equipment Design Engineer.
• Piping and Plant Lay out design Engineer
• Piping Stress Engineer
• Project management Engineers Which can be Classified in to Procurement Engineer, Project Expediting Engineer, Project Planning And Costing Engineer
• Commissioning Engineer

In each of these positions, Salary and position wise career scope is very good.

In Marine Field, Mechanical Engineers can join as a marine engineer officer who has the responsible for the operation and maintenance of various machinery onboard, Which includes Engines, Generators, Pumps, Cranes, Refrigerators, Air conditioners and Safety and life saving accessories and equipment. In Ship Building and Ship repair industry, there is huge requirements for Mechanical engineering Professionals. Ship building companies have career openings similar to EPC companies. Apart from the Engineering design, project management, Erection, Installation and Commissioning jobs, There we have Specific requirements for Specialized gas and electric Arc welding, Gas and Machine Cutting, pressing related jobs.

Aeronautical, Mining & Metals, Defense research & production , Nuclear research & Nuclear Power, Space research & Development industry are also the major industries which has a huge requirements for Mechanical engineers.

About the Author

S.Umamageshwaran,

Armaven Consultancy P Limited

www.armaven.com