Occupational Areas
- Alumna Renate Fuchs
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Industrial engineers are in demand where technical and management functions overlap and where it is important to combine comprehensive know-how from both areas and to show a generalist’s understanding for all relevant connections between the two areas.
Due to their broad profile and their interdisciplinary training, industrial engineers have access to a wide range of vocational fields. They are therefore in great demand on the job market, especially in positions at the interface of the two fields.
Possible occupational areas for industrial engineers:
- Process control in procurement, production and distribution
- Internal management of the flow of goods, materials management and materials handling technology
- Enterprise resource planning,
- capacity planning and control
- Optimization of warehousing and transport chains,
- Supply Chain Management
- Quality management and assurance
- Production controlling, accounting, finance
- Product design, CAD
- Factory design
- Production and automation technology
- Control and handling of customer specific orders
- Procurement, purchasing, sales
- Marketing/sales, sales organisation
- IT, system administration, development of functional system solutions
- Planning and construction of factories, production units and warehouses
- Project planning for production units, project management and project controlling
- Administration and organization, business process management
- Planning of business areas and products, business developments
- Innovation and technology management
- Management support, profit center responsibility, department management and business management
- Information management, control of communication processes
Potential employers of our graduates
- manufacturing companies in general
- automotive (supplier) industry
- IT/telecommunications
- mechanical engineering and plant engineering
- electrical industry
- consulting companies
- civil service
- education and research institutes
- retail companies
- organisations and associations
