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List of Employers and Job Titles Developed from Job Postings in PSU Handshake for Mechanical Engineering Majors
Mechanical Engineering majors may find employment in a variety of areas depending on their skills and experience. Career-related internships or career-related part-time jobs may be a prerequisite to finding professional-level employment after graduation.
The following list of employers and job titles was derived from the University Career Center's job database where the employer specifically requested mechanical engineering majors. This list does not reflect all potential places of employment or kinds of jobs for mechanical engineering majors. This list does not reflect current openings.
- Acumed, Inc. — Manufacturing Engineer Intern
- AMEC Earth & Environmental, Inc. — Staff Engineer
- Alcoa-Intalco Works — Mechanical Reliability Engineer
- Applied Materials — Associate Customer Engineer II
- Armstrong World Industries, Inc. — Project Engineer
- Avista — Natural Gas Engineer in Training
- Bechtel, Inc. — Mechanical Engineer
- Bodycote Materials Testing — Metallurgical Technician/Fracture Technician
- Boeing Company, The — Capacity Planner/Industrial Planner
- Bonneville Power Administration — Mechanical Engineer
- Blue Road Research — Engineer
- C-Tech Industries — Sales Engineer
- Can and Bottle Systems, Inc. — Mechanical Engineer
- Cardinal Glass Industries, Inc. — Mechanical Engineer
- Cascade Energy Engineering — Industrial Energy Efficiency Engineer
- City of Corvallis — Transportation and Building Division Manager
- City of Salem — Combination Structural/Mechanical Inspector II
- DCI International — Mechanical Engineer
- Davis Tool
- Emmert International — Structural/Mechanical Engineer
- Epson Portland Inc. (EPI) — Engineering Process Technician
- FM Global — Field Engineering Consultant, Loss Prevention Consultant
- Freightliner — Design Engineer
- Georgia-Pacific Corporation — Manager-Engineering
- Jacobs Engineering — Process Engineer and Mechanical Engineer
- Jeld-Wen — Management Trainee
- InSite Group, Inc. — Mechanical Engineer
- Intel — Mechanical Engineer
- McKinsey&Company — Organization Survey Analyst
- Micron Technology, Inc. — Product Engineer
- NACCO Industries, Inc. — Mechanical Engineer, Senior Project Test Technician
- Neudorfer Engineers Inc. — Mechanical Engineer
- Nikon Precision Inc. — Field Service Engineer
- Norton Motorsports — Mechanical Engineer
- NSK Americas — Engineer in Training
- Offshore Solutions — Sales Support Engineer
- Oregon Air Reps, Inc. — Sales Engineer
- Oregon Department of Education — Pupil Transportation Consultant
- Oregon Dept of Environmental Quality (DEQ) — Environmental Engineer 3 - Senior Environmental Engineer
- Oregon Department of Transportation (ODOT) — Transportation Engineer I - Bridge Protection Designer
- Oregon Military Department — Facilities Engineer I
- Oregon State University — Faculty Research Assistant - Department if Nuclear Engineering & Radiation Health Physics
- Pacific Detroit Diesel-Allison (PDDA) — Entry-Level Salesperson
- PacifiCorp
- Pollutions Prevention Resource Center (PPRC) — Technical Lead for Oregon Programs
- Portland General Electric (PGE) — Engineer
- Precision Castparts — Management Development Program
- Robert Lloyd Sheet Metal — HVAC Controls Engineer
- Schreiber Foods, Inc. — Production Team Advisor, Maintenance Team Advisor
- SEH America
- Sherwin Williams/Purdy — Engineering Trainee
- Siemens Building Technologies — Sales Engineer Service, Engineering Intern
- South Puget Sound Community College — Director of Buildings and Grounds
- Stratus Technical Sales, LLC — Sales Engineer
- Sulzer Pumps Inc. — Manager Hydraulic Test, Manufacturing Engineer, Project Engineer, Quality Assurance Manager
- Tektronix
- Tidland Corporation — Applications Engineer
- TraneOregon — Project Engineer. Energy Engineer/Analyst
- Trinity Consultants — Environmental Compliance Consultant
- US Bureau of Reclamation — Mechanical Engineer
- US Air Force — Developmental Engineers
- US Army Aviation & Missile Command
- US Army Corps of Engineers (USACE) — Mechanical Engineer
- US Navy — Mechanical Engineer
- US Navy Navair Weapons Division — Mechanical Engineer
- United McGill — Sales Engineer
- United Parcel Service (UPS) — Plant Engineering Specialist, Management in Training; Project Engineer - Mechanical Systems
- University of Puget Sound — Manager of Maintenance Services and Plant Engineering
- Verizon Communications — Network Engineer/Outside Plant Engineer
- Wafertech
- Wellons, Inc. — Mechanical/Structural Designer
- Wesco Distribution, Inc. — Inside Sales
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