Sustainable Engineer
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Engineers invent, create and build the world around us. As an engineer you use natural and man-made chemicals and materials to make the things we use every day. It is a huge and diverse career sector with a variety of employment opportunities. You design and build roads, buildings, cars, planes, tunnels, or dams. You can work on solving problems in the medical area by creating artificial limbs or heart valves. Even everyday products such as computers and sports equipment have had an engineer work on them at some stage in their design or manufacture.
Salary p/a
60k - 297k
Qualifications
Post Graduate
Degree
Intensity
Sitting
Standing
Demand
High
Travel
Low
Conditions
Indoors & Outdoors
Weekly Hours
40-50
Pros
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Growth and demand for engineers will continue
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Both traditional and new engineering careers
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Experts in managing risk
Cons
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Risk management can make you overly cautious
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Not paid enough relative to the importance of the job
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Society unaware engineer’s are at the heart of most development
The Bottom Line
A fantastic career with global challenges and opportunities. Climate change, nuclear technology, alternative energy, infrastructure, medical and systems advancement all have problems for engineers to solve. The bucks are good, there is travel and work overseas – it’s a happening career!!
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