Industrial Engineering Technicians

As industrial engineering technicians gain additional experience, and especially if they pursue further education, they become candidates for advancement.

The typical advancement path for industrial engineering technicians is to become a supervisor, an industrial engineer, or possibly a chief industrial engineer.

Here are some examples of positions to which technicians might aspire:

Production control managers supervise all production control employees, train new technicians, and coordinate manufacturing departments.

Production supervisors oversee manufacturing personnel and compare departmental records of production, scrap, and expenditures with departmental allowances.

Plant layout engineers supervise all plant-layout department personnel, estimate costs, and confer directly with other department heads to obtain information needed by the layout department.

Managers of quality control supervise all inspection and quality control employees, select techniques, teach employees new techniques, and meet with tool room and production people when manufacturing tolerances or scrap become a problem.

Chief industrial engineers supervise all industrial engineering employees, consult with department heads, direct departmental projects, set budgets, and prepare reports.