Industrial and manufacturing engineers
Apply your eye for detail in manufacturing and processing industries. Spend your days evaluating and improving company procedures to optimize human resources, technologies and materials. Become a champion of efficiency and productivity in your field.
Description
Industrial and manufacturing engineers conduct studies, and develop and supervise programs to achieve the best use of equipment, human resources, technology, materials and procedures to enhance efficiency and productivity. Industrial and manufacturing engineers are employed in consulting firms, manufacturing and processing companies, in government, financial, health care and other institutions, or they may be self-employed.
Profile(s)
- Enterprising
- Investigative
- Realistic
Each profession is associated with a combination of three initial letters corresponding to one of the six RIASEC profiles. Profile combinations are determined based on skills, fields of interest and certain personality traits.
Main tasks
- Plan and design plant layouts and facilities
- Study new machinery and facilities and recommend or select efficient combinations
- Develop flexible or integrated manufacturing systems and procedures
- Conduct studies and implement programs to determine optimum inventory levels for production and to allow optimum utilization of machinery, materials and resources
- Analyze costs of production
- Design, develop and conduct time studies and work simplification programs
- Determine human resource and skill requirements and develop training programs
- Develop performance standards, evaluation systems and wage and incentive programs
- Conduct studies of the reliability and performance of plant facilities and production or administrative systems
- Develop maintenance standards, schedules and programs
- Establish programs and conduct studies to enhance industrial health and safety or to identify and correct fire and other hazards
- Evaluate or assess industrial facilities
- Supervise technicians, technologists, analysts, administrative staff and other engineers.
Training
UNIVERSITY PROGRAM
Industrial and administrative engineering
To register for Industrial and administrative engineering:
- École de technologie supérieure
- École Polytechnique de Montréal
- Bishop's University
- Concordia University
- Université du Québec à Trois-Rivières (French only)
- Université Laval
Mechanical engineering
To register for Mechanical engineering:
- Concordia University
- École de technologie supérieure
- École Polytechnique de Montréal
- McGill University
- Université de Sherbrooke
- Université du Québec à Chicoutimi (French only)
- Université du Québec à Rimouski
- Université du Québec à Trois-Rivières (French only)
- Université du Québec en Abitibi-Témiscamingue
- Université Laval
Engineering
To register for Engineering:
- Bishop's University
- Concordia University
- École de technologie supérieure
- École Polytechnique de Montréal
- McGill University
- Université de Sherbrooke
- Université du Québec à Chicoutimi (French only)
- Université du Québec à Montréal
- Université du Québec à Rimouski
- Université du Québec à Trois-Rivières (French only)
- Université du Québec en Abitibi-Témiscamingue
- Université du Québec en Outaouais
- Université Laval
More information
More information on this job on IMT online
This trade is in highest demand in these regions:
- Saguenay–Lac-Saint-Jean
- Capitale-Nationale
- Mauricie
- Estrie
- Île-de-Montréal
- Côte-Nord et Nord-du-Québec
- Chaudière-Appalaches
- Laval
- Lanaudière
- Laurentides
- Montérégie
- Centre-du-Québec
- Grande région de Montréal