subject: Engineer Career - The Design Engineer [print this page] Choosing a design engineer career can be rewarding and challenging task. Design engineers require a faculty to see the project in their mind since they are dealing with concepts which have not yet become reality. Often the concepts are abstract and call for to be developed. Good imagination is required by anybody who is wanting to have a career as a design engineer.
All design engineers must posses skills to sovle problems.. This might be everyday problems or unique problems to the job at hand. In any event design engineer career comes with problem solving requirements. It is said the wage is proportional to the magnitude of the problem you can solve. This is definitely the case with a design engineer. Where the project is one off or a new untried kind of project, the design engineer is vital to solve the problem because it will be his design that will be used in construction. Imagination is the key in developing a solution.
Design engineers for majority of time work in an office. The office will be air conditioned and our design engineer will have no regard for the weather conditions outside until he goes home or is required to be on site. Where the work demands an engineer on site such as in big organisations who manufacture steel or any other product will generally have design engineers based on site to allow a solution to the problem to be worked out quickly.
Mines will nearly always have design engineers on site. During shut down periods where maintenance works take place 24 hours a day, design engineers will be required to be in attendance due critical nature of the work.
Design engineer who works in a maintenance field will likely be located in an site office close to the maintenance work area. These engineers are frequently referred to as reliability engineers or risk engineers connected with preventative maintenance. In truth their role is to predict the problems that will come about and then design a solution to the problem. Mine sites will inevitably have reliability engineers on site as they always have maintenance concerns.
