Engineering and manufacturing
About engineering and manufacturing
The engineering and manufacturing sector can be broken down into 3 sub-sectors:
- engineering, design and development
- engineering, manufacturing and control
- maintenance, service and repair
This sector involves the creation and production of a variety of things. You might work in vehicle design and manufacturing, structural design or even aviation.
Sub-sectors within engineering and manufacturing
Choose a sub-sector that interests you to learn more about it.
Engineering, design and development
Learn about careers that involve planning how things are made, how they work, and improving them.
Engineering, manufacturing and control
Explore careers involved in making things, working with machines and checking quality.
Maintenance, service and repair
Find out about careers that keep things working and fix them if they break.
Find out about a related sector
Looking at different sectors can help you discover careers you might not have considered, and one of them could be right for you.
You can explore:
- construction and the built environment, to research even more careers which involve building and making things
- creative and design, if you're interested in roles that involve technical skills and design
- transport and logistics,if you'd like to work with different types of vehicles or machinery
You can also explore all sectors to discover what each sector has to offer.