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Employer Quotes
The quotes below are from employers in this industry: Engineering
They are talking about this topic: Workforce Trends & Challenges
The quotes below are about this issue:
Employers would like to see more mechanical engineers with hands-on experience in facilities and with production equipment and in specific industries.
| "Some of the shortfall might be just some of the hands-on experience. At least in terms of mechanical, more mechanical in our production facilities." | Central |
| "It's almost impossible to find a mechanical engineer who knows automated packaging equipment. Not completely impossible, but almost." | Northwest |
| "If a mechanical engineer has worked for another company, they may require a higher salary and that's just not feasible for us; that's what the issue is." | Northwest |
| "If someone—fresh out of college as a mechanical engineer—could come into our facilities and know what we're doing and what the requirements are, that would definitely be helpful. But there are so many industries out there, so it would be difficult for educators to prepare students for every industry, we understand that." | Northwest |
| "We hire mechanical, civil and electrical engineers. And I'd say the civil engineers have more of the soft skills than the mechanical engineers do. Just because of the—at least I'd have to assume—because of the program. I think they have projects where they do public speaking, leadership of teams, and those types of things." | Southwest |
| "It's helpful to have some experience in the field with machinery or experience on-site with different tolerance requirements. One thing that we're noticing is that for the industries we serve, the requirements are just getting tougher and tougher in terms of quality requirements and things like that. So, that experience in the field is really going to be more and more important. It's one thing from an engineering standpoint to be able to lay something out. It's another thing to actually be able to manufacture it." | Southwest |