Jobs for Energy Engineers

Who is Hiring OIT Energy Engineers?

Utilities, consulting firms, manufacturing companies, government agencies, and major corporations that traditionally have hired mechanical or electrical engineers to fill jobs having an energy emphasis are now looking to OIT to meet their professional staffing needs.

Here is a sample list of organizations and companies who have expressed a specific interest in our students because of our interdisciplinary approach. These prospective employers have either interviewed and/or hired our students for full- or part-time work, as interns or as regular employees.

Graduates of OIT's renewable energy engineering program would be ideal candidates for engineering jobs in most any organization where a major emphasis is in power generation, power and energy systems design or applications, and energy conversion technologies. More broadly, organizations that work in these energy and renewable technologies need our graduates: energy efficiency and "green" buildings, solar hot water, photovoltaics, hydropower, wave and tidal energy, biomass and biofuels resources, wind energy, fuel cells, geothermal systems, and alternative fuels and transportation.

Job titles in these organizations include energy engineer, energy analyst, power engineer, controls engineer, energy modeler, energy auditor, energy policy analyst, project engineer, design engineer, applications engineer, systems engineer, facilities manager, and power systems analyst. A quick search of these and similar titles on www.monster.com should give you a better idea of who might hire energy engineers, where the jobs are, and the kinds of work these engineers do.

To learn more about salaries for different types of engineering jobs, go to www.salary.com.

Also, check out this report: "Carbon-Free Prosperity 2025 — How the Northwest Can Create Green Jobs, Deliver Energy Security, and Thrive in the Global Clean-Tech Marketplace" for projections of energy-related "green" jobs. The report addresses five areas in particular for Oregon and Washington where the demand for technical talent appears to be increasing unabated: wind energy, photovolatics, smart grid technologies, green buildings, and biofuels/biomass development.