All about Manufacturing and Utilities Jobs

Manufacturing is often described as the wealth-creating part of the economy. Utility services usually include those commodities and services used by the population every day: Water supplies, power – electricity and gas supplies, sewage systems and telecommunications. Utilities provide services and maintain infrastructures used to deliver them.

Manufacturing and Utilities sectors are fundamental to the UK economy and require continual investment to bring about necessary excellence in operations management, planning, production and inventory control, scheduling, waste and cost control and integration of systems and skilled workers. Successful organisations are those who train and retain their workforce.

The Institute of Operations Management (IOM) is the main UK professional body for operations management in manufacturing, service industries and the public sector. IOM operates within The Chartered Institute of Logistics and Transport (UK) – CILT (UK).

IOM offers information and internationally recognised certifications the Certificate, the Diploma and the Advanced Diploma.

The Energy and Utility Skills (EU Skills) is the Sector Skills Council for utility industries. This body has a long list of partner Trade Associations and Organisations providing useful information and supporting the careers of people working in these industries.

All about Engineering Jobs

Career engineers share inventiveness and deep scientific knowledge as requirements. The nature of the underlying science is broad and affects both the processes and the objects that result from it. This is problem-solving at its most exciting, resulting in the creation of new things, often tangible and useful: wheels, pyramids, machines, vehicles, devices, buildings, infrastructure, chemicals, genes, materials and so on.

Chemical, mechanical, civil, electrical engineering are regulated, varied and potentially overlapping disciplines.

The term ‘engineer’ can also be applied to vocations that do not require education to degree or higher levels and is sometimes used to describe repair people, plumbers, electricians and other technologists and technicians.

The Engineering Council is the UK regulatory body for Engineering Technicians, Information and Communications Technology Technicians, Incorporated Engineers and Chartered Engineers, setting and maintaining standards for ethics and competence for these titles. Candidates for the title of Chartered Engineer must demonstrate their professional competence through education, training and professional practice: examinations range from undergraduate to post-graduate levels. There are other professional bodies to register engineers.

City and Guilds administer A-level and higher equivalent qualifications. Most universities have engineering schools. There are good opportunities for engineers in the UK.