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As a planning, process or production technician, sometimes described as a manufacturing engineer, your technical skills and management abilities let you oversee and improve a variety of industry processes. Here you can learn more about what this role involves and how to qualify.
Your career path as a production technician is often shaped by the size and focus of your employer.
As a junior technician or engineer, you’ll likely work across different products or processes, gaining experience and getting an idea of what to specialise in. You might choose to change roles or industries to secure a promotion. With experience and further qualifications, you could become a senior technician, advanced engineer or manager.
With experience, you could explore self-employment, working as a consultant for different companies within your industry.
Many manufacturing and engineering firms offer graduate training schemes to students, and many degrees contain industrial placements or sandwich years to help you gain experience and make industry connections before graduating.
In-house or external professional training can help you progress further and pursue chartered engineer status in some cases. Your employer may also sponsor you to complete a master’s degree while you work.
Use our Career Matcher to see which industries and roles align best with your interests.
