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Architects design buildings and the spaces around them, balancing what a client wants against budget, site constraints, building codes, and how people will actually use the place. The role runs from early sketches and concept models through to detailed technical drawings and site visits during construction. Much of the week is drawing, modelling, and writing, punctuated by client meetings and consultant coordination.
Postgraduate or professional degreeArchitecture, construction and infrastructure
Architectural technologists turn a design concept into the technical package a contractor can actually build from, resolving construction detail, materials, and performance requirements. They work alongside architects and engineers, and often own the code-compliance and buildability side of a project. The work is detail-heavy and mostly screen-based, with regular site and supplier contact.
Certificate or college diplomaArchitecture, construction and infrastructure
Architectural drafters produce the drawings that describe a building: plans, sections, elevations, and details, usually in CAD and increasingly inside a BIM model. They work from an architect's or engineer's markups and from standard details, and are responsible for the drawings being consistent, dimensioned, and correctly labelled. It is precise, standards-driven desk work.
Certificate or college diplomaArchitecture, construction and infrastructure
Landscape architects design outdoor spaces such as parks, streetscapes, campuses, and the ground around buildings, working with planting, levels, drainage, paving, and how people move through a site. The job mixes creative design with technical work on grading, stormwater, and plant selection for the local climate. Site visits and consultation with communities and authorities are a regular part of it.
Bachelor's degreeArchitecture, construction and infrastructure
BIM coordinators look after the shared digital model of a project, making sure the architectural, structural, and services models line up and follow the agreed standards. They run clash detection, manage the common data environment, and chase teams to fix what the checks find. The role sits between design, construction, and IT, and is as much about process discipline as software skill.
Certificate or college diplomaArchitecture, construction and infrastructure
Designs courses and learning materials so that people actually acquire the intended skills, usually for online or blended delivery. Works with subject-matter experts to define outcomes, structures content and activities around them, and builds assessment that checks whether the outcomes were met.
Builds the digital version of a course: interactive modules, video, quizzes, and the packaging that makes them run inside a learning platform. Works from an instructional design or storyboard and handles the media production, accessibility checks, and technical testing.
Certificate or college diplomaEducation and training
Electrical engineers design and verify the circuits, power systems, and electrical equipment that machines, buildings, and networks depend on. Work spans schematic capture and load calculations through to commissioning and fault investigation on installed equipment.
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.
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.
Design engineers take a requirement or concept and develop it into a fully defined, manufacturable product. The role is a constant negotiation between what performs best, what can be made economically, and what the standards allow.
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.
Certificate or college diplomaEngineering 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.
Certificate or college diplomaEngineering and technical design
Mechanical drafters turn engineers' sketches, models, and markups into the precise drawings and data that shops and suppliers work from. Accuracy matters more than speed here, because a missed dimension or wrong tolerance is discovered downstream in metal.
Certificate or college diplomaEngineering and technical design
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.
Varies by employer or jurisdictionInformation technology, data and cybersecurity
Solutions architects decide how a system should be put together to meet a business need, then explain that decision to both engineers and non-technical stakeholders. Much of the value is in the trade-offs: what to build, what to buy, and what constraints the design has to respect.
Bachelor's degreeInformation 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.
Certificate or college diplomaInformation technology, data and cybersecurity
Industrial electricians keep the electrical side of plant and production equipment running: motor controls, drives, sensors, and the control panels that tie them together. The work leans heavily on diagnosis, because a stopped line has to be traced back to a cause quickly and safely. Shift coverage and callouts are common where plant runs around the clock.
ApprenticeshipSkilled trades, maintenance and repair
Sheet metal workers lay out, fabricate, and install ducting, flashings, roofing, cladding, and fabricated metal components. The trade combines shop work on brakes, shears, and rollers with site installation and hanging. Pattern development and layout are central, because a flat pattern has to fold into the shape the drawing specifies.
ApprenticeshipSkilled trades, maintenance and repair
Substation technicians install, test, and maintain the transformers, breakers, switchgear, and protection relays that step voltage up and down across the grid. The work happens around high-voltage equipment, so isolation, grounding, and permit discipline matter as much as technical skill. Fault call-outs can mean working outdoors in poor weather at unsociable hours.
ApprenticeshipUtilities, energy, mining and resources
