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Showing 25–48 of 118 published occupations · page 2 of 5
Engineering and technical design
Telecommunications engineers design, deploy, and troubleshoot the networks that carry voice and data, including fibre, microwave, and mobile radio systems. Work moves between planning and modelling at a desk and commissioning or fault-finding at sites and exchanges.
Engineering and technical design
Controls engineers design and program the systems that make machinery and plant run automatically, including PLCs, drives, instrumentation, and operator interfaces. Commissioning is a core part of the job, and it often happens during shutdowns or outside normal hours.
Engineering and technical design
Robotics engineers design, program, and integrate robotic cells and autonomous equipment, combining mechanical design, sensing, control, and software. The work is genuinely cross-disciplinary and involves a lot of iteration on real hardware before a cell behaves reliably.
Engineering and technical design
Fire protection engineers design the detection, suppression, containment, and escape provisions that keep people safe in a fire. The work carries direct life-safety consequences and is tightly bound to building codes and authority approvals.
Engineering and technical design
Marine engineers design, install, or operate the propulsion, power, and auxiliary systems of ships and offshore structures. The role divides between shore-based design and seagoing engineering watches, and the seagoing side involves extended periods away from home.
Engineering and technical design
Engineering technologists apply established engineering methods to design, testing, and project support work, usually alongside professional engineers. The role is more applied than theoretical, and the scope of what a technologist may sign off differs by jurisdiction.
Engineering and technical design
Mechatronics technologists build, commission, and maintain equipment that combines mechanical parts, electronics, sensors, and control software. The appeal of the role is that a single person follows a fault across all of those layers rather than handing it off.
Engineering and technical design
Electronics technicians build, test, calibrate, and repair electronic assemblies and instruments. Work ranges from bench fault-finding down to component level to field service on installed equipment, and it rewards methodical testing over guesswork.
Engineering and technical design
Instrumentation and control technicians install, calibrate, and repair the measuring and control devices that keep industrial processes within limits. The work is safety-critical in plants and utilities, and in several jurisdictions it is a designated apprenticeable trade.
Healthcare and clinical services
Audiologists test hearing and balance, diagnose auditory disorders, and fit and programme hearing devices. The technical side is precise measurement in controlled conditions; the counselling side is helping people accept and persist with a device they may find stigmatising. Paediatric, adult rehabilitation, and vestibular work are quite different specialisms within the profession.
Healthcare and clinical services
Respiratory therapists manage patients' breathing: ventilators, oxygen therapy, airway management, and pulmonary diagnostics. They are core members of intensive care, emergency, and anaesthesia teams and are often present at resuscitations and intubations. The role carries direct responsibility for equipment on which a patient's life immediately depends.
Healthcare and clinical services
Medical laboratory technologists run and validate the tests that clinicians rely on to diagnose and monitor disease. The work spans haematology, chemistry, microbiology, transfusion, and histology, and it is as much about quality control and instrument troubleshooting as about running samples. Patients are rarely seen, but the consequences of an unreliable result are direct.
Healthcare and clinical services
Medical radiation technologists produce the diagnostic images clinicians use, positioning patients and operating X-ray, CT, MRI, or related equipment. Radiation safety is a permanent constraint on how the job is done, for the patient and for the operator. Image quality depends heavily on positioning and technique, so the work is more skilled than pressing a button.
Healthcare and clinical services
Sonographers use ultrasound to produce images of organs, vessels, and developing pregnancies, and they select and interpret what to capture in real time. Because the image is operator-dependent, the diagnostic quality is largely down to the sonographer's technique and anatomical knowledge. The role involves sustained scanning postures and, in obstetric work, conversations about difficult findings.
Healthcare and clinical services
Sterile processing technicians decontaminate, inspect, assemble, and sterilise the instruments and equipment used in surgery and other procedures. The role is invisible to patients but directly determines infection risk, and every step is documented and traceable. Work is standard-driven, repetitive, and physically active in hot, noisy departments.
Information technology, data and cybersecurity
Software developers design, write, and maintain the programs that run on computers, phones, and servers. Much of the work is reading existing code, breaking a requirement into small changes, and checking that a change behaves correctly before it reaches users.
Information technology, data and cybersecurity
Back-end developers build the services, APIs, and data access layers that sit behind an application. The work centres on correctness under load: making sure requests are handled reliably, data stays consistent, and failures degrade in a controlled way.
Information technology, data and cybersecurity
Web developers build and maintain websites and web applications, from marketing sites to logged-in tools. The role often mixes coding with content management systems, hosting, and the practical work of keeping a live site healthy.
Information technology, data and cybersecurity
DevOps engineers build the machinery that gets code from a developer's machine into production safely. They automate builds, deployments, and infrastructure, and they are usually the people other teams come to when a release or environment misbehaves.
Information technology, data and cybersecurity
Site reliability engineers keep production systems running and treat reliability as an engineering problem rather than a manual chore. They set service level objectives, automate away repetitive operational work, and lead the response when something breaks. On-call rotations are a normal part of the role.
Information technology, data and cybersecurity
Cloud engineers design, build, and run systems hosted on cloud platforms. The job mixes networking, security, and automation: provisioning resources in code, controlling who can access what, and keeping an eye on how the environment is configured over time.
Information technology, data and cybersecurity
Systems administrators keep an organisation's servers, operating systems, and core services running. The work is a mix of planned maintenance and unplanned problem solving, and it often includes the accounts, backups, and permissions everyone else depends on.
Information technology, data and cybersecurity
Network administrators design, configure, and maintain the networks that connect an organisation's devices, sites, and services. When connectivity fails, they are the people who work out whether the problem is a cable, a configuration, or a provider.
Information technology, data and cybersecurity
Network technicians install, test, and repair the physical and logical parts of a network. Compared with an administrator the work is more hands-on and site-based: running and terminating cable, swapping hardware, and confirming links behave as expected.
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