What would you do as an Agricultural engineer?
Agricultural engineers
- usually work regular business hours
- usually work in offices and outdoors and may travel locally
- may work in hazardous conditions
- need to be logical, accurate and solve problems
Tasks
- design farming equipment and systems
- develop irrigation, drainage and water systems
- create technical plans of equipment
- discuss designs with clients
- monitor environmental impact of projects
- write technical documents
- find and fix operational problems
- test farming equipment and systems
- give sustainability advice
- provide technical information to suppliers and staff
How can you become an Agricultural engineer?
You usually need a qualification to become an agricultural engineer.
You may need
- a bachelor's degree in engineering, agricultural science or similar area
- experience in similar work
- a driver licence
- to be registered as a Chartered Professional Engineer with Engineering New Zealand
If you're in school
You usually need University Entrance to do the study or training for this job.
