What career path can you take with a degree in Chemical Engineering?

Scope and Career Opportunities for Chemical Engineers:

• Scientific research and development services
• Basic chemical manufacturing
• Health-care industries
• Electronics and Energy manufacturers
• Architectural, engineering, and related services
• Resin, synthetic rubber, and artificial synthetic fibers and filaments manufacturing
• Business services Food Manufacturing units
• Petroleum and coal products manufacturing
• Biotechnology and pharmaceutical companies

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n addition to specific technical knowledge, a chemical engineering degree provides a sound theoretical basis for introducing new technology and advancing existing technology. You also gain an awareness of the global and societal context in which engineering solutions are applied.

Transferable skills that would be useful in a range of engineering and business-related roles include:

problem-solving and analytical skills;
project management, through group design work;
teamwork and leadership;
initiative and attention to detail, through independent research;
communication and presentation skills, developed through group work and presenting research projects.

Chemical engineers are involved in many many industries performing many functions. Typically you will be working under the direction of a more senior engineer. Depending on the company you work for the work can be very varied. Lab experiments, field work, office work, sales calls. Chemical engineers do it all.

Many people will tell you it is an open ended degree and to an extent they are correct. It is the single most comprehensive engineering degree you can obtain. You learn pretty much all the topics other engineers do aside from structures and autocad while usually going more in depth as well. That being said, the ultimate goal is to aquire a job at the end of the journey (unless grad school is your path in which case disregard the rest of this). Unfortunately, job applications and employers like a certain name to be next to a degree for certain jobs so while you will have an abounding amount of options, the actual work will be generally the same: process enineering. My recommendation for you is to also consider WHERE you want to work. I'm not saying it's impossible, but it's far easier to get a job as a chemical engineer in a smaller town/area. Finding a metropolitan city with a chemical engineering job is a bit tougher that's for sure.

In terms of a typical career path: process engineer->plant engineer-> plant manager.