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Building the Automation Generation: The Key to Remaining Competitive in a Global World

Jobs in Automation

The opportunities in automation are endless, but most jobs fall into four major categories: engineering and design, sales engineering, management, and automation technicians.

	Engineering and design professionals research, design, build, and operate various systems and instruments to measure, control, and automate manufacturing processes.
	Sales engineering professionals advise and assist clients and customers on the application, purchase, installation, and maintenance of available products and systems. Sales engineers help companies find the right products to improve the efficiency, output, and safety of manufacturing and industrial processing operations.
	Automation professionals interested in management careers rise to leading positions throughout the numerous manufacturing and industrial processing sectors of the global economy.
	Instrumentation/maintenance and automation technicians play key roles in installing, maintaining, troubleshooting, and repairing various components of automation systems.

Automation professionals can be found in many major global companies, like The Dow Chemical Company, Shell, Sara Lee, Hershey Foods, Eli Lilly, GlaxoSmithKline, DuPont, Emerson, Honeywell, Siemens, GE, and more.

Dispelling the Myths: Cool Jobs in Automation

Picture your future middle or high school student. Do you think he or she would be attracted to jobs like this?

Now Hiring:
Automation Engineer to design a computer interface to control real equipment in real time. Position utilizes graphics technology and gaming functions to develop graphics for automation application.

Now Hiring: Urgently Required!
Robotics Professional to build multifunctional, programmable machines. Position utilizes computer science, applying artificial intelligence and engineering methods to develop robots that perform a variety of functions.

Now Hiring: Start Immediately!
Automotive Manufacturing Technician to operate, install, maintain, and continuously improve the machinery, processes, and production systems that produce hybrid and next-generation electric automobiles.

Now Hiring: Wanted Now!
Life Support Analyst Manager to automate mechanical processes for animal environments at major theme park.

Now Hiring: Competitive Salary and Benefits!
Environmental Project Engineer to design systems that automatically sample, measure, record, and report environmentally harmful toxic gas emissions from power generation processes. Project engineering team works to develop innovative solutions for environmental problems and concerns.

Many young people have misconceptions about careers in automation. They see jobs in our industries as dirty, dusty, and old-fashioned. We think it’s time to set the record straight.

These aren’t jobs we made up. These are real, actual jobs that real, actual people have – and there are hundreds more like them. The automation profession has a broad, diverse offering of well-paying, highly rewarding, technically-savvy jobs – and the demand for professionals to fill those jobs has never been higher.