Career Opportunities with a Degree in… Industrial Engineering

Your Skills and the Employment Market

Possible Career Opportunities

Sample Jobs

Further Study Opportunities

What Past Graduates Have Done

Resources in the Careers Information Room

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Your skills and the employment market

Your course work along with your PEP experience combine to give you many of the transferable skills, as well as the obvious engineering skills, required by employers. Employers will often list ’preferable’ skills (see sample jobs section) in their job ads that you may have picked up while studying and working and are worth emphasising in your application. These include:

• Computer skills
• Project management skills
• Communication skills
• Reporting skills
• Presentation skills
• Time management
• Flexibility
• Decision making skills
• Team working skills

Industries that look for Industrial Engineering graduates include:

• Food & Drink
• Pharmaceutical
• Medical Devices
• Materials
• Electronic
• Materials, etc. 

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Possible Career Opportunities

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Note: Further qualifications may be needed for certain positions. This list is a sample representation of positions available.

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Up to 40% of graduate employment opportunities are open to graduates of all disciplines.  In most cases, however you will need further postgraduate study or professional training.  .

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Sample Jobs

Some jobs advertised recently that may suit students / graduates (these jobs are NOT currently available and are shown here for illustration purposes only).

Graduate Engineer (Civil or Industrial) in Estimating Department. Ward & Burke Construction Ltd. suit a graduate Engineer from a civil / industrial engineering background, with an interest / flair in the area of Procurement (prequalification tenders) & Quality Management. The ideal candidate would have obtained at least a 2:1 degree and must have good working knowledge of MS Word and Excel (min.). 

Engineering graduate, Calor. Successful candidate will be part of the technical team providing technical advice and support. Good computer skills, be willing to travel around Ireland, specialism in building services/ industrial engineering req.

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Further study opportunities

For certain career choices, employers may look for candidates with further qualifications and training.  Some of the range of opportunities available in NUI Galway include:

• MSc Occupational Safety Engineering & Ergonomics
• HDip/MSc Software Design & Development
• MSc Biomedical Science

For a full list please visit www.nuigalway.ie/courses .

The Careers Information Room has sections on Ireland and the UK (including individual prospectuses), USA (with guides to applying, funding and lists of courses), studying in EU countries as well as further afield.

Further study links:

http://www.postgradireland.com/ contains useful information on postgraduate courses in Ireland

http://www.prospects.ac.uk/ is an excellent site for researching opportunities in the UK

http://ec.europa.eu/ploteus covers the EU

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What past graduates have done

It is always interesting to know what fellow graduates have done after obtaining their degree at NUI, Galway.  Here is a sample of job titles and employers currently occupied by past students who studied Industrial Engineering.  These have been taken from our annual graduate destinations survey.  

• Auctioneer, Spanish Properties
• Engineer, O Halloran Joinery
• Engineer, Medtronic
• Engineer, Wexford
• Manufacturing Accountant, Siemens
• Manufacturing Engineering Technician, Medtronic
• Project Engineer, Bord na Mona Energy, Tullamore
• Project Engineer, Abbot Longford
• Project Manager, Zodiac Aerazur, Cognac, France
• R&D, Medtronic
• R&D Engineer, Boston Scientific
• Trainee Air Traffic Controller, Aviation Authority
• Validation Engineer, Boston Scientific
• Validation Engineer, Abbot

To see the full list please click here.

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Resources in the Careers Information Room

 We have valuable information resources, experienced career development advisers and information staff on hand to help you with your queries.

Reference material in the Information Room includes:

• Occupational Folders ’T’
• Engineering as a Career [book]
• Engineering Opportunities
• many titles covering interviews, CV preparation, general careers

Drop into our information room and we will be happy to assist you.

For useful links, see www.nuigalway.ie/careers/students/virtual or www.delicious.com/careersinfo/engineering .

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