Types of Engineering

At Severn Trent there are three main roles for our Lv3 Apprentices : Electrical; Mechanical; Instrumentation Control and Automation (ICA). . Examples of some activities are:

Utilities Engineering Technician – Mechanical

You’ll get to grips with core mechanical theory and principles, applying them to a range of complex systems, carrying out essential repairs, and keeping us and our communities connected.

Utilities Engineering Technician – Electrical

You’ll find out about the intricate electrical networks that make our business flow. Installing, inspecting and maintaining them, you’ll ensure that our customers have a safe and reliable water supply.

Utilities Engineering Technician – Instrumentation, Control and Automation (ICA)

You’ll learn how to assess, repair and overhaul vital instruments and control equipment. Diagnosing faults and designing solutions, the knowledge you develop will keep our business running.

The BBC have many different types of engineers working for us and our apprentices learn lots of areas
We do split it by 'type' of work though
Software Engineering - this is more computer based - working on BBC apps and platforms
Broadcast Engineering - this is working on the equipment that helps us broadcast nationally and internationally - like fixing and working on equipment that our broadcast operators use to mix sound (for radio), or do an outside broadcast
Broadcast Operators - these operators work the equipment that the broadcast engineers are building and fixing - so could be a camera operator, working the lights in a studio etc.

In the Merchant Navy you could be a Marine Engineer, an engine room rating or an Electro-technical Officer.

Engineering Officer

As an Engineering Officer, you operate and maintain all the mechanical and electrical equipment on board the ship. You'll be responsible for power generation and distribution, lifts, refrigeration plant, pumping and ventilation systems.

Using a bank of high-tech instrumentation, you'll monitor hydraulic and control equipment, and take charge of sophisticated engine management. There will be many opportunities to put your engineering problem-solving skills to the ultimate test. After all, at sea, if something goes wrong you can't just pull in to the nearest garage. It will be up to you to diagnose the fault, get the equipment dismantled, repaired, reassembled and back into operation.

Once you’re a Senior Engineering Officer, you'll lead and supervise a team of professional engineering personnel at sea and in port. You can then set your sights on the top position in the engineering department – Chief Engineer.

Electro-Technical Officer

As an Electro-Technical Officer (often abbreviated to ETO) you'll maintain a wide range of complex onboard electronic and electrical equipment. Look forward to regularly dealing with technical challenges and equipment as diverse as the main electric generation plant and electronic communication systems.

As well as making good use of your maintenance skills, you’ll monitor all electrical equipment onboard to maximise the operational safety and efficiency of the vessel.

Right now the Electro-Technical Officer role is fairly new. So depending on the company and the type of ship, it might play a significant part at Junior and Senior Officer levels. While on other vessels it’s not such a big requirement and may be part of Engineering Officers' jobs.

There are plenty of options and routes with professional qualifications at the end of your training.

The UK Rail industry is a dynamic and fast moving place for engineers to grow and develop. The industry’s often beleaguered reputation for all the high profile things that go wrong hides the fact that it has exciting opportunities for motivated and committed individuals to excel.

As a leading UK rail freight operator, Freightliner is a part of Genesee & Wyoming, a US listed group of companies mainly operating short line railroads. The Freightliner team have deep sea container logistics and bulk product ([link removed] aggregates, cement) rail businesses in the UK, Europe and the Middle East. Our sister company, Pentalver, operates trunk haul road services and deep sea container logistics. We export our engineering skills and expertise into all of our operations in these jurisdictions.

We employ engineers with electrical, mechanical and civil engineering disciplines from the craft, technical and professional (chartered engineering) level. Typically our activities include maintenance activity, which includes specifying, planning and conducting the maintenance. We also manage the technical procurement of equipment to adapt it to our specific commercial needs, often helping suppliers understand how to make cost effective choices to driver best value for the product. That range includes building locomotives, wagons, cranes, container terminals, rail heads, track, yards and sidings. We manage modifications and help the wider industry to set the standards to which the industry operate.

We often find that engineers of each discipline of electrical and mechanical can complement each-other and so we use them in a multi-skilled environment. So the differences are hard to see, and means that the individual gets exposure to a broad and varied workload. In our sector of the rail industry, engineers form part of a small team and therefore can often see the value of their individual contribution to the goals of the team and, in turn, the success of the business.

all of our engineers in Rolls-Royce are passionate about what they do, what they create and the problems they solve to make a real difference in the world through pioneering power systems used in the air, on land and at sea. They are team players, great communicators and innovators. Diversity and difference is celebrated
Our engineers differ based on their expertise / discipline ranging from mechanical to electrical, materials to manufacturing. Digital to AI From aerospace to marine to nuclear.

Morson Projects is an Engineering Consultancy company. We cover a wide range of engineering disciplines from Aerospace Engineering to Nuclear Engineering.

Within the Aerospace sector, for example, there are several engineering roles:

There are Design Engineers who create, design and develop solutions to engineering problems.

There are Finite Element Method (FEM) Engineers who create mathematical computer models based on the design provided and then they will apply every loadcase, that is required for certification, to the model.

Then there are Stress Engineers who can use the results from the FEM models to calculate local stresses in specific areas of the structure and provide the required material thickness in that area back to the Design [link removed]

This above process will cycle until the strength and the weight of the aircraft structure is acceptable to the design conditions.

Finally there are Project Engineers who oversee the entire project by conversing with the client, ensuring that they are satisfied with the work that is produced and that deadlines are met.

The above roles, or similar, can be found across each of our departments.

When Work Experience students spend a week at our company, we allow them to experience each department so that they can get an idea of which role/area they would like to pursue in their future careers.