Engineering and Manufacturing

Engineers bring ideas to life. They design, create, test and improve all sorts of products and processes. From James Watt’s steam engine to Andy Scott’s Kelpies, Scotland is great at engineering.

It’s an exciting and varied industry offering careers in range of sectors including space, aviation, transport, medicine, technology, food, fashion and construction. You won’t always be sitting at a desk and could be working in a laboratory, at sea, underground or a recording studio. If you’re a creative problem solver who likes a challenge then the industry could be for you.

Engineering companies are projected to need 182,000 people with engineering skills each year to 2022 in the UK. The UK will need 2x the number of graduates and apprentices entering the engineering industry