Industrial Engineers
Design, develop, test, and evaluate integrated systems for managing industrial production processes, including human work factors, quality control, inventory control, logistics and material flow, cost analysis, and production coordination.
Also called: Engineer, Industrial Engineer, Operations Engineer, Process Engineer
Knowledge:
Engineering and Technology
- product and service development
- mechanical
Manufactured or Agricultural Goods
- manufacture and distribution of products
- arithmetic, algebra, geometry, calculus, or statistics
Skills:
- reading work related information
- listening to others, not interrupting, and asking good questions
- noticing a problem and figuring out the best way to solve it
People and Technology Systems
- thinking about the pros and cons of different options and picking the best one
- figuring out how a system should work and how changes in the future will affect it
Abilites:
- listen and understand what people say
- read and understand what is written
- notice when problems happen
- make general rules or come up with answers from lots of detailed information
- pay attention to something without being distracted
- do two or more things at the same time
- choose the right type of math to solve a problem
Personality:
Description: People interested in this work like activities that include ideas, thinking, and figuring things out.
They do well at jobs that need
- Attention to Detail
- Dependability
- Integrity
- Initiative
- Analytical Thinking
- Cooperation
Technology:
Analytical or scientific software
Computer aided design CAD software
- Autodesk AutoCAD
- Bentley MicroStation
Industrial control software
- Allen Bradley PanelView
- Supervisory control and data acquisition SCADA software
Education:
certificate after high school
