Engineering Career, Engineering Employment, Professional Engineer, Engineering Jobs, Engineering Professionals, WA, Australia

Engineering Career Opportunities

 

Career Opportunities

 

 

At JSM Appointments we strive to identify organisations in our targeted industry that offer excellent engineering career opportunities for high quality engineering professionals, managers and executives. We undertake assignments in partnership with the engineer recruiting teams of our clients and we welcome the opportunity to discuss your career aspirations in relation to potential engineering career opportunities.

 

When you contact us you can expect to receive a frank assessment of your skills and attributes in relation to current engineering jobs. Our clients rely on us to attract highly sought after skills while maintaining a rigorous assessment process and thorough interviewing techniques. We believe that this can only be accomplished by treating all applicants with respect, integrity and individual attention. All applications, liaisons and submissions to JSM Appointments are treated with complete confidentiality.

 

JSM Appointments provides professional HR consulting services and we observe a strict policy of advertising only genuine engineering career positions on behalf of select clients with whom we enjoy an established relationship. While we will endeavour to assist applicants seeking engineering jobs way of identifying potential opportunities for referral and introduction we are consultants not agents, and we do not solicit engineering professionals for the sole purpose of building up a database to on-sell at a later date.

 

Engineering Careers for the Professional Engineer and Associated Design and Project Skills

 

JSM Appointments specialises in engineering career opportunities and almost all of the positions offered by our clients will fall into one of the occupational categories described in the table below.

 

In Australia and most other countries the Engineering Team is made up of three distinct occupational categories which are broadly defined by type of qualification and the level of application that their knowledge and experiences is applied in industry.

 

The following table offers an overview of the categories of engineering professionals as defined by Engineers Australia . Elements that make up an engineering career are broad and diverse and we encourage you to visit the Engineers Australia web site or that of the institute relevant to your particular region.

 

Occupational  Category	Typical Qualification	Professional  Accreditation	International  recognition	Some examples of  job titles
Professional Engineer	BE or BEng	EA* Member / Chartered status CPEng	Washington Accord	Engineer – Principal Engineer / Lead Engineer / Design Engineer / Project Manager / Engineering Manager
Engineering Technologist	BTech, BEngTech or BEngSc	EA* Engineering Technologist Member / CEngT	Sydney Accord	Engineering Technologist – Principal Engineering Technologist / Team Leader / Design Manager
Engineering Officer	Diploma / Advanced Diploma	EA* Engineering Officer Member / CEngO	Dublin Accord	Engineering Officer – Principal Engineering Officer / Engineering Designer / Engineering Drafter

 

Professional Engineer: According to Engineers Australia the Professional Engineer applies “advanced skills in the analysis and knowledge of science, engineering, technology, management and social responsibility to problem solving and synthesis in new and existing fields. This encompasses advanced design and research, development of systems and products, manufacturing and field engineering and, with further professional formation, in specialist practice or supervision and management.” A Professional Engineer typically leads teams or works in them and often holds positions that require them “to make balanced judgements between design refinement, cost, risk and environmental impact.”

 

Engineering Technologists: According to Engineers Australia “Engineering technologists apply skills in analysis and knowledge of scientific and technological principles, management and social responsibility to new and existing technologies in standard design, testing, inspection plant operation, manufacturing or field work and, with advanced expertise, adapt standard practices to particular applications and supervise and manage such work.”

 

Engineering Officers (also referred to engineering technicians or engineering associates): According to Engineers Australia “Engineering Associates generally apply engineering principles and practices in support of, or to supplement, the work of professional engineers, technologists or other professional officers.” Engineering associates are often “known as Technical Officers and prepare drawings and specifications that provide the details of design to those who manufacture or construct an item. Engineering Associates may also undertake design tasks under the supervision of senior technical officers or engineering professionals. A technical officer in electronics could, for example, be involved in writing computer programs or in aspects of designing electronic systems.”

 

Engineering Disciplines

 

Your engineering career is characterised by a particular branch of field of study. Broadly speaking engineering professionals can be divided into the four main disciplines of chemical, civil, electrical and mechanical engineering, with several branches within each discipline covering a wide range of fields.

 

When recruiting engineers, an employer’s job specification generally reflects the importance of qualifications and experience in relation to engineering discipline and field of expertise as applies to particular engineering job functions (see below). The relevance of your branch or field of engineering may diminish as a position becomes more supervisory or management focused. This can be illustrated by the analogy of a conductor of an orchestra who may only have the ability to play one particular musical instrument, but he directs and coordinates an entire performance requiring many instruments. A typical CV of a senior technical specialist on the other hand will show evidence of consistent experience and ongoing education in a particular field.

 

JSM Appointments’ consultants apply their knowledge of the engineering career and its respective disciplines to help employers assess where there may be opportunity to adapt the selection criteria for certain engineering disciplines wherever this may be appropriate.

 

Job Function

 

A seasoned professional engineer will recognise the significance in his or her experience gained in different job functions, especially when industry and technical knowledge is a match to particular engineering jobs. Applicants for an engineering job with a maintenance focus may be able to draw from extensive design experience on similar plant and in a similar industry, but transferring behaviours adopted in an organised and highly resourced design office to the deadline driven and unpredictable nature of a maintenance shutdown need to be taken into account when companies are recruiting engineers.

 

JSM Appointments’ knowledge of the engineering career and how it is impacted by experience in different job functions help us to better understand our clients’ requirements making sure we correctly account for relevant attributes of engineering professionals.

 

Industry background and Experience

 

Applicants should be aware that employers and recruiters pay a significant amount of attention to the industry background and experience gained by a professional engineer, technologist or associate. This is not about pigeon holing candidates, but rather recognising some of the attributes prominent in engineering professionals who have operated in different industries.

 

Industry background can affect a range of capabilities in the professional engineer. The most obvious being the relevance of their technical experience. However there are many other factors than can affect the relevance and nature of an applicant’s industry background, and we take care to understand the weight of industry related experience required in all engineering jobs when recruiting engineers.

 

The oil and gas industry for example demands an almost zero risk tolerance for many professional engineer job functions, while the nature of hazards associated with materials handling in the iron ore industry may allow for more flexibility in managing risk. In other words a design engineer in one industry could be too pedantic for another and vice versa, with huge cost implications.

 

JSM Appointments’ knowledge of the engineering career extends to how it is impacted by experience in different industries. This means that we are able to recognise the most important and relevant attributes in your CV.