Manufacturing Engineer (Production Engineer)

 

    Manufacturing Engineering is a branch of professional engineering that has many common concepts of other types of engineering. Manufacturing engineering requires the ability to plan; the practices of manufacturing, research and develop tools, processes, machines and equipment; and to integrate the facilities and systems for producing quality products.

    As a production engineer your main focus is to turn raw material into a finished product in the most economic and efficient way possible.

    To become a Production Engineer you need to have an associates degree or a bachelors degree in engineering with a major in manufacturing engineering. To get certified you need to be a professional engineer. To become one you need to have two to five years in school and five years of professional practice.

    A few industries where Production Engineers are employed; Aerospace, Chemical, Computer, Industrial, Pharmaceutical and Food processing.