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Field engineer. Operating engineer
Production engineer in an automotive industry requires being at the factory floor almost everyday and problem solving production issue.
That’s why I switched to MET. Manufacturing Engineer.
Why the save route. Love my position
Yes my job involves designing bearings and installing them at customer’s facilities. I travel maybe 20% of the time and it’s great not only designing, but also installing the stuff you design and seeing it work. My first 2 jobs involved staring at a screen for 8-10 hours a day and after 9 years I had more than my fill of that. Just look for something that involves some travel if you’re into it or something as a manufacturing engineer.
If you are looking for something as an engineer than no... you have to work in front of computer, but if you are looking for something as a technician then definitely yes... you will get a lot of opportunities. I had a same problem, I am also a mechanical engineer and being an engineer here in North America you will be only able to find job as a design engineer or so called drafter..... but if you look into country like India, Mechanical engineers are know as a god of Engineering dept. They can work as a design engineer, production engineer, manufacturing engineer, purchase dept., sales and Marketing and so on... so look for technian position and you will land at your dream job.
Literally most ME jobs don’t involve a tether to a desk. Be a project engineer or a project manager or a manufacturing engineer, or a process engineer. The world is your oyster.
Manufacturing engineer, process engineering, maintenance engineering. Something that involves hands on and involvement with crafts and equipment. Get hands dirty.
To complete your experience you need to see in the field how the work you designed plays out. You need to validate the design intent by reviewing shop drawings and RFI’s. Finally, in the field to can see assumptions or design errors first hand and learn from it.
Jobs in design usually don’t! If they do you should find a different company. I spend about half the year at my desk 80% of the time working on designs 20% chatting with the people that will make my designs to see if they’re feasible. Then the other half that flips I’m about 80% away from the desk working with my customers and technicians to build and test my design with 20% at the desk documenting my activities.
In any job it’s going to be what you make it. I would stay away from sales but if you go to sales then make an effort to go down to your manufacturing areas and chat with the people doing the work. If you’re in HVAC then get to the jobs site. Best way to go is R&D in my opinion. Bottom line, you can hide behind a desk and be an excel engineer anywhere but you can also get out from the desk anywhere too it’s all what you make it. And in my experience the most successful engineers are those that aren’t at their desk all the time.
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Working for airlines.
I know companies like Anduril have forward deployed engineers who are basically on-the-ground engineering consultants which sounds sick- just wish I could make it to an initial screening lol