Agriculture & Food Engineering Manager

Career Area: Engineering

Occupation Group: Engineering Managers

Salary

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A typical Agriculture & Food Engineering Manager earns the following wages (national and state):

State

The average salary in North Carolina for those pursuing this career is $88,111

National

The average salary in the United States for those pursuing this career is $96,260

What Does a Professional in this Career Do?

Oversees engineering and technical design of agricultural engineering projects, such as cultivating, transporting and preparing food stuffs. Manages communication and coordination among different types of engineers working on a project. Supervises project schedule, budget, and communications with stakeholders.

Employment Trends

The job demand and job growth statistics shown here were derived from job posts over the past year. Expected job growth projections are extrapolated from year-over-year job post listing history.

Job demand and job growth is expected at the following rates:

Skills

A professional in this position typically utilizes the following skills in the course of everyday work in this exciting and challenging field:

Baseline Skills

The following are baseline skills every Agriculture & Food Engineering Manager is expected to have in order to experience success in this field:

• Planning: Working experience with the process of thinking about and organizing the activities required to achieve desired goals.
• Problem Solving: Problem solving consists of using generic or ad hoc methods, in an orderly manner, for finding solutions to problems.
• Communication Skills: The ability to convey information to another effectively and efficiently.
• Teamwork / Collaboration: Experience working in collaborative efforts with a team to achieve a common goal or to complete a task in the most effective and efficient way.
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Specialized Skills

These skills are specific to working in this career:

• Project Management: Project management is the discipline of initiating, planning, executing, controlling, and closing the work of a team to achieve specific goals and meet specific success criteria.
• Food Industry Knowledge: Requires Food Industry Knowledge, which is The food industry is a complex, global collective of diverse businesses that supplies most of the food consumed by the world population
• Budgeting: Experience planning how the financial resources of a business or department are to be allocated during the next business period.
• Scheduling: Working experience making schedules, which are basic time-management tools, consisting of a list of times at which possible tasks, events, or actions are intended to take place withing an organization.
• Engineering Management: Experience organizing, administering, and planning the operational performance of complex engineering driven enterprises.

Distinguishing Skills

Any Agriculture & Food Engineering Manager that possesses the following skills will stand out against the competition:

• Equipment Design: Manufacturing equipment is the platform for the operation of unit processes. Properly designed equipment is essential for the production of high-quality, cost-effective products. Equipment design is necessarily the broadest category of the six enabling technologies, since it ultimately serves as the vehicle to implement all of the other enabling technologies.
• Reliability Engineering Studies: Working experience of Reliability Engineering Studies, which is a sub-discipline of systems engineering that emphasizes dependability in the lifecycle management of a product. Dependability, or reliability, describes the ability of a system or component to function under stated conditions for a specified period of time. Reliability is closely related to availability, which is typically described as the ability of a component or system to function at a specified moment or interval of time.
• Food Science: Food science is the applied science devoted to the study of food.
• Process Safety: Working experience of Process Safety, which is a blend of engineering and management skills focused on preventing catastrophic accidents and near misses, particularly structural collapse, explosions, fires and toxic releases associated with loss of containment of energy or dangerous substances such as chemicals and petroleum products.
• Equipment Installation: the act or process of making a machine, a service, etc., ready to be used in a certain place :the act of installing something

Salary Boosting Skills

A professional who wishes to excel in this career path may consider developing the following highly valued skills:

• New Product Development: In business and engineering, new product development (NPD) covers the complete process of bringing a new product to market.
• Engineering Leadership: Experience providing the technical leadership of change.
• Engineering Activities: Working experience of Engineering Activities, which includes all activities or functions of an engineer, invloving the application of science and mathematics to the design, manufacture or maintenance of complex products.
• Reliability Engineering Studies: Working experience of Reliability Engineering Studies, which is a sub-discipline of systems engineering that emphasizes dependability in the lifecycle management of a product. Dependability, or reliability, describes the ability of a system or component to function under stated conditions for a specified period of time. Reliability is closely related to availability, which is typically described as the ability of a component or system to function at a specified moment or interval of time.
• Technology Transfer: Technology transfer, also called transfer of technology (TOT), is the process of transferring (disseminating) technology from the places and ingroups of its origination to wider distribution among more people and places.

Experience

This position typically requires the following level of experience. The numbers presented in the pie charts below were derived from actual job posts over the past year. Not all job postings list experience requirements.

Common Job Titles

It is possible to find work in this field in positions commonly listed as the following job titles:

• Project Engineer
• Senior Project Engineer
• Plant Senior Engineering Leader
• Engineering Manager
• Engineering Services Manager

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