Career Fields
Business Organization, Planning and Consulting
- Production Engineer: Monitors and optimizes the technical equipment, ensures its functionality and aims to increase e.g. manufacturing quality, productivity and profitability
- Operations Planner: Supports and advises companies on organizational, business management or technical issues, develops optimization concepts and participates in their implementation
- Systems Engineering Engineers: Plan, develop and design complex technical systems. In doing so, they analyze the entire life cycle of a technical product, both from an engineering and an economic point of view
- IT Security Coordinators: Design IT security solutions in accordance with the applicable technical standards, laws and regulations, supervise their implementation and continually adapt them to current conditions
- Project Engineer: Plans, organizes and monitors the execution of technical projects and, if necessary, takes over project management during the implementation phase
- REFA Engineer: Ensures the economic efficiency of industrial work processes through appropriate organization and control. Usually he/she designs and supervises larger rationalization and restructuring projects in companies
- (Technical) Management Consultant: As an external service provider, he/she analyzes the processes and structures in companies, e.g. in order to increase the profitability or to secure and expand the economic success of the company
- Industrial Engineer: Plans, checks and improves operational processes with regard to technical efficiency and the greatest possible profitability in the various functional areas of companies
Materials, Merchandise Management, Logistics
- Business Economist (logistics): Plans and controls flows of goods and information to supply companies with raw materials and supplies, information, services, energy and personnel
- Logistician: Coordinates flows of goods and information with the aim of saving time and costs.
- Supply Chain Manager: Is located at the interface between logistics and IT and is responsible for the successful interaction of all participants in the supply chain
Manufacturing / Production
- Work planning Engineer: Plans, calculates and optimizes production processes in companies
- Work Foreman: Plans, optimizes and controls production and work processes
- Production Engineer: Plans, manages, optimizes and monitors production processes
Maintenance, Customer Service and Technical Sales
- IT Manager: Is responsible for the entire information technology infrastructure of a company. He/she coordinates the workflows within the IT department and ensures smooth interaction between the IT department and the other divisions of the company
- Service Engineer: Maintains and repairs electrical and electronic components and systems of machines and plants
- Sales Engineer: Sells and markets technical products and services
Process and Product Development
- Clothing Engineer: Participates in the design of models, prepares production documents, supervises and controls the production
- Research and development engineer: Works on (sub)projects to develop new products or technical processes or to further develop them
- Product Developer: Designs technologically oriented products for the consumer and capital goods industry
- Packaging Engineer: Plans, designs and optimizes solution concepts for the various requirements of packaging; also works in the areas of packaging purchasing and sales, market research and logistics
Quality Assurance and Quality Management
- Production Engineer: Plans, manages, optimizes and monitors production processes. He/she is also active in quality management, work preparation and employee training
- Quality Engineer: Defines and monitors quality standards in the manufacture of products, assesses risk potential and coordinates the implementation of quality improvement measures
- Quality Manager: Continuously analyzes and optimizes work and production processes in companies
Research and Teaching
Teaching activities at universities involve the organization and implementation of courses and the supervision of students.
- Lecturer at Universities and academies: Designs and conducts courses, and collaborates on scientific research projects
- Research Assistant: Provides scientific services in research and teaching, which are also conducive to the acquisition of further scientific qualifications (e.g. doctorate)