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Career Planning for Mechanical Engineers

Sripriya Mantri,Manager, Engineering S/W Program, QuEST

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Overview

1 Current Landscape

2 Major players

3 Career Management

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Current Landscape: Holistic view

Aero Engines

Aerospace & Defence Energy Industrial O&G Transportation Healthcare

Electronic equipment

Design/ CAD x x x x x x x xMaterial Science x x x x x x x xEngineering Software x x x x x x x xCAE x x x x x x x xManufacturing x x x x x x x xPrototyping & Testing x x x x x x x xField Engineering x x x x x x x xProduct services x x x x x x x xConsulting x x x x x x x xBusiness administration x x x x x x x xTechnical Writing x x x

►Sectors v/s Functions

►Advanced Technologies at a Glance

Nanotechnology & MEMS – Micro/Nano devices, materials, processes, mechanics, systems

Robotics, Rapid Prototyping

Biotechnology – Computational Bioengineering, Functional Tissue Engineering

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Major Players

• Pratt & Whitney

• Rolls Royce

• GE

• HAL

• BELL

Helicopters

• Volvo Aero

• Snecma

• Honeywell

• Lockheed

Martin

• Boeing

• Airbus

• Goodrich

• All DRDO Labs

• Bombardier

• Northrop

Grumman

• General

Dynamics

• GKN

• GE

• Siemens

• Alstom

• MHI

• Rolles Royce

• Toshiba

• Schnieder

Electric

• Suzlon

• Vestas

• Sun Power

• Ocean Power

• Shell

• GE

• Chevron

• Exxon Mobil

• BP

• ConocoPhillips

• Haliburton

• Schlumberger

Aero engines

Aerospace & Defence Energy Industrial Oil &Gas

• Atlas Copco

• BEML

• Caterpillar

• Hitachi

• JCB

• Doosan

• Forbes

Marshial

• L&T

• Ingersoll Rand

• Bosch

• Thermax

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Major Players

Electronic Equipment Consulting Engineering SoftwareHealthcareTransportation

• GE Rail

• All Major Auto

companies

• GE

• Siemens

• Philips

• Toshiba

• Applied

Materials

• Philips

• ABB

• Samsung

• Siemens

• Hyperworks

• PTC

• TRIAD

• ANSYS

• Geometric

• Mckinsey

• BCG

• PWC

• Black & Vetach

• KPMG

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Career Management

Career Paths:

► Business Leadership Path

► Technical Specialist Path

► General Management / Operations Management Path

Movements:

► Vertical Movement - Leads to progression in the responsibility levels of a person/ enhancement

in one’s skills and knowledge

► Horizontal Movement - Horizontal Career Movement opportunities involve movement across

Job Families but within the same Responsibility Levels. They facilitate broad based exposure

and development of diverse skills/ experience in the employee

► On-the job rotation

► Cross functional

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Horizontal Career Movements

Within Engineering

Across Disciplines

Business development, Marketing, Talent Acquisition, Consulting, Procurement,

Corporate Planning, Quality/ Business Excellence

Design/ CAD

Material Science

Engineering Software CAE

Mfg/ CAM

Prototyping & Testing

Field Engg

Product services

Design/ CAD Y Y Y Y

Material Science Y Y YEngineering Software Y YCAE Y Y Y YManufacturing/ CAM Y Y Y YPrototyping & Testing Y Y Y Y

Field Engineering Y Y YProduct services

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Plan your career – Choose your strokes