What kind of jobs can you get after graduating in chemical engineering and technology? What is the direction and outlook for chemical engineering jobs?

What can I do after graduation in chemical engineering and technology? Chemical engineering job direction and prospects? In fact, there are few disciplines whose jobs involve every aspect of human life as much as chemical engineering. Because the industries and jobs involved in the broad category of chemical engineering are so broad, it is difficult to cover everything in one article. So in this issue, we will pick out representative jobs and divide them into three areas: chemical, energy, and pharmaceuticals.

Let's start with chemical engineering jobs. Upon graduation, chemical engineering students will primarily step into a career path as a chemical engineer. Chemical engineers have a wide range of career choices, including petroleum and gasoline, energy, water treatment, material products, cosmetics, pharmaceutical products, and food and beverage. Mainstream employment can be broadly categorized into the daily-use FMCG industry and the chemical industrial products industry.

First, the FMCG industry. Procter & Gamble and Unilever are the representative companies in the FMCG industry, which mainly produce daily consumer goods. Procter & Gamble, founded in 1837, is one of the world's largest consumer goods companies. Among the products it produces are fabrics and home care, hair and beauty, baby and home care, health care, food and beverages, and so on. Unilever, on the other hand, is one of the world's largest producers of ice cream, tea drinks, margarine and flavors, and one of the world's largest producers of laundry, skin cleansing and hair care products.

Next is the chemicals industry. Well-known enterprises in the chemicals industry include BASF, Bayer and Akzo Nobel abroad, and Sinopec Group, China National Petroleum Corporation and Shanghai Petrochemical Corporation at home, as well as Nanya Plastics and Formosa Plastics Group in Taiwan. These companies produce chemical products involved in all aspects of life, from small plastic fertilizers, large engineering materials, a few words are difficult to outline.

Because these internationally renowned FMCG companies and famous chemical companies have a very high starting point for R&D positions, and most of the products developed are for the whole world, it is generally difficult for domestic students to enter the R&D layer of these companies, even with a PhD degree, as a chemical engineer.

Domestic students entering these companies are more likely to be engaged in supply chain related work, and need to go through the entire business operation process from procurement to production and sales, similar to business operations. Therefore, chemical engineering is more engaged in the supply chain of product sales, although the use of professional knowledge is not much, but the treatment is better.

Seeing this, students can't help but feel anxious about not being able to use what they've learned, so please read on.

Let's move on to the employment of energy chemistry. Graduates of this specialty work areas include: coal chemical, natural gas chemical, bio-energy chemical and other energy chemicals processing and production, related companies in the domestic Sinopec, PetroChina and other companies, international companies such as Meffron, Shell, ExxonMobil and other companies. Graduates will mainly become petrochemical engineers, coal chemical engineers.

The main responsibility of petrochemical engineers is to implement the company's manufacturing process flow, process parameters and product standards. He is responsible for analyzing the material consumption and energy consumption of the plant, formulating energy-saving and consumption reduction measures, as well as statistically analyzing the data on plant operation and quality, discovering patterns, and studying and solving problems in the production process.

Coal chemical engineers independently undertake or preside over the coal chemical system (benzene, phenol, sulfur, naphthalene and other gas treatment system and related processes) complete or partial design, while familiar with the design industry and business, master the design workflow, carry out the design organization and implementation of engineering projects.

The above position is mainly engaged in chemical engineering in the production process design of this ring work, but also more professional work.

Here we introduce what is chemical production process design. Before a chemical can be produced in large quantities, it is first necessary to do "small tests" in the laboratory to determine the type and size of reactors and other devices according to various reaction conditions. The next step is "engineering scale-up", which includes "pilot tests", computer simulations, and "plant trials", during which various engineering problems are solved. The final and most critical step is the "start-up" of production, to ensure that the machinery and equipment to produce a qualified chemical.

Chemical process design is the process of "pilot" and "drive" two links, so the chemical process design is the chemical researchers to study the results of the engineering design into a usable actual The real product of the industrial benefits.

Macro point of view, chemical process design is to help a variety of chemical plant design and construction, to assist in the start-up operation, the output of qualified products, in this regard, similar to the architectural design and civil engineering combined with each other.

And from the micro view of the work content, including simulation calculations, drawing, and chemical principles, thermodynamics and other disciplines of practical application of knowledge. As well as the production program selection, optimization, from a variety of production technologies, based on energy consumption, environmental protection, cost, reliability and other variables for optimal selection. It can be said that the work of process design, is the chemical engineering in the most counterparts of the post.

In addition to production design, chemical engineering students can also engage in what position?

That's where we end up with pharmaceutical engineering careers. Generally speaking, pharmaceutical engineering graduates who do not choose to change careers will choose pharmaceutical engineer as a starting point for their career.

In addition to knowing the design of pharmaceutical production processes, pharmaceutical engineers are also responsible for supervising and managing the operation of pharmaceutical production lines, which requires engineers to be familiar with the various processes of production, and check the production line equipment every day in strict accordance with the standards to ensure that the pharmaceutical plant's normal production every day. This job represents the production side of the chemical industry, favoring the operation and management of production equipment, which is more similar to the university's professional knowledge.

Pharmaceutical engineers are naturally interested in all kinds of pharmaceutical companies, including well-known pharmaceutical companies at home and abroad, such as Pfizer, Johnson & Johnson, GlaxoSmithKline, and at home, such as Xinhua Pharmaceutical, Harbin Pharmaceutical Group, Sinopharm, etc.

The pharmaceutical engineers are also interested in working in the pharmaceutical industry, such as the pharmaceutical industry.

Although the market demand for pharmaceutical personnel is not large, but due to a large number of pharmaceutical students graduated from the undergraduate program to change careers, resulting in a shortage of pharmaceutical engineers, especially with a master's degree or higher in the supply of pharmaceutical personnel. Famous pharmaceutical companies are also in the situation of thirst for talent. Therefore, if you want to go farther in the pharmaceutical road, continue to study is the students can not get around the pass.

The above is a preliminary introduction to the chemical engineering jobs, again emphasize that this issue is only representative of the chemical engineering jobs are divided into three sub-industry to introduce, but the barriers between the jobs depends on the company's requirements for talent varies. For example, in chemical engineering employment, into the world's top 500 chemical companies chemical engineering students are difficult to enter the R & D layer, can only do supply chain, but this does not mean that students can not enter the domestic stronger chemicals company's R & D team.

In addition, the chemical engineering class can be engaged in the occupation also includes patent agents, related departments of civil servants, college teachers, chemical consulting, etc., but these positions either do not show the characteristics of the specialty, or need many years of work experience, become an industry elite in order to enter, so here will not go into detail.

Summary of key points:

1, the chemical engineering profession to choose a wide range of careers, broadly divided into daily-use FMCG industry and the chemical industry two industries;?

2, chemical engineering domestic students generally can not enter the enterprise research and development layer, in the product sales supply of this ring, although the use of professional knowledge is not much, but the treatment is better;

3, energy and chemical industry employment is generally to go to the energy and chemical processing and production enterprises, to become a petrochemical engineers and coal chemical engineers, production design;

4, pharmaceutical engineering. Employment if you do not choose to change careers, pharmaceutical engineers will be the mainstream career development starting point, with a master's degree or above can become a well-known pharmaceutical companies need talent.