Career development Advancement can be into managing projects and supervising others or a technical specialism. Moving to other research and development roles or commercial functions such as sales or marketing is also possible. The salary data was collected in Feb 00 Salary varies by location, industrial sector and size of the organisation. Higher salaries possible for highly relevant postgraduate qualifications. Working hours and conditions Typically includes mainly 9-5 possibly with some extra hours Some extra hours, especially for production trials.
Most jobs occur in industrial areas.
There is much contact with technical staff and liaison with others. Jobs are quite widely available Process industries are somewhat more localised than manufacturing but are still found in many industrial areas. Lifestyle implications Usually several projects running concurrently. Production trials often conducted at unusual hours eg end of the shift. Stressful at times eg when launching a new production line.