Job Roles/Profiles for an Instrumentation Engineer

This article is about the Industrial roles & opportunities that as an Instrumentation Engineer we get to work in an industrial environment.

Being on the edge of completion of final year academics & putting steps into the industrial world or having completed few months in certain job role, it is very necessary for an engineer to know about the roles & profile he/she is working in and what further he/she could do about it. In maximum cases, engineers who start with their first job profile, eventually make their carrier in the same profile till end, irrespective of whether they like or dislike it.Also, other factors also impact this like market job availability, income earned and future scope.

In my interest & experience, I finally worked in a profile, which I liked from my academics days itself and so I was very clear on the first day of my job carrier that whether I would like the current job profile or not? Whether I would be continuing with it or not? And today after multiple hurdles, I am happy to be able to work in a profile of my interest. But not all the engineers are that much clear neither they are that much deterministic about job profiles; in fact almost 90% engineers are not clear and they chose the option to go with whatever comes across , because ultimately, survival is the priority…!

This article I am specially preparing for those Fresher engineers and working professionals, who want to make their mind set clear regarding job selection and job switching in terms of available job profiles & roles in market & by just knowing them thoroughly.

Hope this article will help you to select and switch a Job profile wisely.

Let’s start one by one.

Application Engineer

An Application engineer works in office environment of any instrumentation related & oriented company, irrespective the nature of company/organization, like manufacturing, consulting, trading. Application engineer is also called as “Internal sales or Inside sales engineer or Estimation engineer “. The job profile of an Application engineer includes, reviewing & handling of client enquiries, preparing quotations &offers for those enquiries, preparing bids for tenders, thus handling commercial activities as primary responsibility with little technical exposure side by side, required for understanding the enquiries and preparing the quotations accordingly. Also, attending tender-bid openings, discussion meetings with client is also a part of this job profile.

Sales Engineer

Just like an application engineer who works inside an office environment, a sales engineer has a field job and hence it is also called as “Field sales or Outside sales engineer”. A Sales Engineer has to do site visits which includes mostly client offices and sometimes in their plants & factories, within certain allotted regions to them, in the city or state or even country level regions and some international areas too, depending upon the nature of business the company is doing. A Sales engineer deals with commercial activities as primary responsibility with certain required technical knowledge for advertising and selling the product, thereby contributing towards the sales of the company. A sales engineer has an annual target of product selling which has to be achieved.

Installation & Commissioning Engineer

Installation & Commissioning is purely a hard core field job. The engineer works on a site of actual installation & usage. Another associated & relevant job roles are Site engineer, Service engineer, Erection & commissioning engineer or Project Engineer. A site can be plant premises, an industrial area, a factory or a lab. Installation & commissioning engineer are responsible for installing & commissioning their particular product at required site and also to perform product’s start up at site. Installation & commissioning engineer has to perform SAT (Site Acceptance Procedure) in conjunction with other team of engineers & man power available at site from engineer’s end as well as from client’s end. Site can be domestic or as well as international, depending upon the nature of businesses the company is doing. The advantage of this job profile is that an Installation & commissioning engineer generally has a nice amount of practical knowledge of instruments & equipment, compared to other job profile engineers. Another similar profile doing the same activities but only in self-product’s manufacturing facility, is called as Production engineer profile.

Quality Control Engineer

Quality control (QC) or Quality Analyst (QA) engineers deal with ensuring quality of the products manufactured, assembled or integrated, with respect to domestic & international industrial quality standards and check procedures. This job profile is found in detail & precise manner especially in manufacturing industries where the end product manufactured has to undergo quality test and checks prior to further processing & final shipment to client. FAT (Factory acceptance test) is also one of the important tasks handled by QC / QA engineer.

Design Engineer

This is the profile I was talking about in the introduction section above, which I liked very much during my academics phase & hence decided to be in it. I have already published an article on this topic. Please click on below button to read that full article to know about this job profile in detail.

Hope the above article was helpful to you. Please note one thing that I haven’t mentioned the salary range and career potential of this job profiles in above article, because I don’t want you guys to get influence and decide the job profile based on such cosmetics & presentation points, instead I would strongly recommend you guys to go with your interested job roles, which I did in my case. I know it’s quite bumpy at the start, but if you are determined and fulfilled with your passion, trust me, your interest will lead to your goals eventually…!

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