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Advanced Manufacturing and Engineering - Energy Engineer

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Energy engineers research, design and build power generation plants, and work in the oil and gas industry.

• Research and design new generating sites
• Decide on the best locations for sites
• Plan and oversee production programmes for sites
• Manage and coordinate teams of technicians or site workers
• Design and select equipment
• Meet environmental standards, like carbon reduction targets
• Find the most cost efficient and productive processes
• Carry out laboratory experiments 
• Convert experiments into large-scale industrial processes
• Work with geologists, geophysicists and specialist contractors
• Manage projects and budgets

You could work at a power station, in an office, in a laboratory or on a rig.

Energy Engineers tend to work between 41 to 43 hours a week. You could work evenings and weekends away from home. 

Starting: £20,000

Experienced: £50,000

You can do a degree in an engineering or a scientific subject. Some employers may expect you to have a postgraduate qualification.

You may be able to start by doing a higher or degree apprenticeship in areas like:

• nuclear engineering
• electrical power networks engineering
• power and propulsion gas turbine engineering

You'll usually need 4 or 5 GCSEs at grades 9 to 4 (A* to C) and A levels, or equivalent, for a higher or degree apprenticeship.