Just retired last July and I can honestly say that I have hit each one of these categories except for EHS, although spending a lot of time in Product Stewardship roles gets close. I do think you downplayed what PLC's can be and are used for. My last employer uses sophisticated multi-module PLC's to control operation in each of 4 different plants on one site. These are all feeding data into the cloud and the data visibility and new capabilities for the operations are next level. This allows insight into manufacturing processes that just wasn't possible even 5 years ago. Some pretty neat stuff. The other thing you could mention about research & development is the opportunity to generate new intellectual property that can earn your company serious $$. I have been fortunate enough to be granted several chemical composition patents and it is very satisfying. Great video.
:) I'm a Chemical Engineer that started as a Process/Design Engineer at a small chemical plant and transitioned after 2 years to Design Engineer at an EPC firm. I didn't enjoy the poor work life balance of Process Engineering for a chemical plant though I did work for a site with ~100 people, not 500+ or so, so I had more responsibilities than a focused job at a bigger company. I like the Design Engineer position I have now more, as the 40 hour/week work life balance is really really nice, but the job stability is definitely less. It seems like 1-2 engineers are laid off every 1-2 years, in the team of 30 Design Engineers.
Great and quite thorough list. As a experienced Process Engineer I was pleased that you begin your list with this awesome and valuable position. I couldn't agree more! Keep going your nice work here spreading the word about Chemical Engineering. Cheers
as a process engineer could you please explain the role more clearer. i do not understand what our role is after we finished the design of he process. the rest is for technicians not for us. that what i don't understand
Thank you for creating this kind of content. I'm a 1st year Chemical Engineering student and I'm looking forward for your videos! This will really help me a lot.
So soeaking of programming skills, we all know most engineering majors take some programming classes. So i found out my friends dad graduated ChemE and still got a software job. It may have been that his labs at hia school intergrated olenry of programming and such, though. Very flexible major.
thank you for your valuable content.I'm majored in chemical engineering-food industry but i don't know really what major to choose in master my question is if i choose process engineering can i work as a process control section? actaully the niversit i wan to apply for just have environmental-water treatment and process engineering and biorefinding majors,, actually it doesn't have quality control
The role that sounds the most interesting for me is research and development it’s probably cause I’m more of the scientist type rather then an engineer 😅 And actually my major currently is chem engineering but I may or may not change it and go to science in the future cause I know it’s mostly physics and math and I’m more of chem and bio type of person but I also like physics but not as much as those 2 and for me math is just a tool 😅 but idm it
I'm looking to get into the fragrance industry. I mostly will be making my own products. Is this a good degree to attach with me since i'm already in the industry
I come from a biomedical science background. What would you recommend someone trying to become a process scientist/engineer do to catch up with for example someone with a chemical engineering degree?
Yeah there can be a lot of overlap. Lots of software companies focus on process control, developing products for chemical plants and working as contractors/ consultants for them as well. However, to work directly for a chemical company as a process control engineer, you might need more chemical engineering background.
It can happen but it's not as common in the US. The faster way to make this happen is if you get a second degree in chemical engineering or get a masters in chemical engineering.
Hi. please tell me exactly what you said in 11:34.... I cannot get out of my head the phrase "qué mierda pasas" (or what shit is going on...) I'm really amused by it as I'm actually on top of that each single day of my working life and at home as well. As you might have guessed... I'm a Chemical Engineer as well with 11 years in a plant...