Let's take a look at the employment situation in the chemical industry first. After graduation, students majoring in chemical engineering will mainly step into the career development path of chemical engineers. Chemical engineers have a wide range of work, including petroleum and gasoline, energy, water treatment, chemicals, cosmetics, pharmaceutical products and food and beverage. The mainstream employment scope can be roughly divided into daily fast-moving consumer goods industry and chemical products industry.
The first is the daily fast-moving consumer goods industry. The representative companies of FMCG industry are Procter & Gamble and Unilever, which mainly produce daily consumer goods. Among them, Procter & Gamble, founded in 1837, is one of the largest consumer goods companies in the world. Our products include fabric and home care, hairdressing and beauty, baby and home care, health care, food and beverage, etc. Unilever is one of the world's largest producers of ice cream, tea drinks, margarine and condiments, and also one of the world's largest producers of washing, skin cleaning and hair care products.
Followed by the chemical industry. Well-known enterprises in the chemical industry include BASF, Bayer and Akzo-Nobel companies abroad, China Petrochemical Group, China Petroleum and Natural Gas Group and Shanghai Petrochemical Company in China, and South Asia Plastics Company and Formosa Plastics Group in Taiwan Province Province of China. The chemical products produced by these enterprises involve all aspects of life, from plastic fertilizers to engineering materials, and it is difficult to summarize them in a few words.
Because these internationally renowned fast-moving consumer goods enterprises and famous chemical enterprises have a very high starting point for R&D positions, and most of their products are global-oriented, it is generally difficult for domestic students to enter the R&D level of these enterprises even if they have doctoral degrees as chemical engineers.
When domestic students enter such enterprises, they are mostly engaged in supply chain-related work, and they need to go through the whole enterprise operation process from procurement to production and sales, which is similar to enterprise operation. Therefore, chemical industry is more engaged in product sales and supply, although the use of professional knowledge is not much, but the treatment is better.
Seeing this, students will inevitably feel anxious and feel useless in their studies, so please continue reading.
Then introduce the employment situation of energy and chemical industry. The work fields of graduates in this major include: coal chemical industry, natural gas chemical industry, bioenergy chemical industry and other energy chemicals processing and production. Related enterprises include Sinopec and PetroChina in China, as well as companies such as McFuron, Shell and ExxonMobil in the world. Graduates will mainly become petrochemical engineers and coal chemical engineers.
The main responsibility of petrochemical engineers is to implement the company's manufacturing technology, process parameters and product standards. Be responsible for analyzing the material consumption and energy consumption of this device, formulating energy-saving measures, making statistical analysis on the data of device operation and quality, finding the law, and studying and solving the problems existing in the production process.
Coal chemical engineers independently undertake or preside over all or part of the design of coal chemical systems (benzene, phenol, sulfur, naphthalene and other gas treatment systems and related processes), be familiar with the design industry and business, master the design workflow, and carry out the design organization and implementation of engineering projects.
The above positions are mainly engaged in chemical engineering in production process design, and they are also highly professional positions.
Here we introduce what is chemical production process design. Before a chemical substance can be mass-produced, it is necessary to do a "small test" in the laboratory to determine the model and size of the reactor and other equipment according to various reaction conditions. Then there is "engineering amplification", including "pilot test", computer simulation and "factory debugging", during which various engineering problems should be solved. The last and most important thing is to "start" production to ensure that machinery and equipment can produce qualified chemicals.
Chemical process design is the "pilot" and "start-up" in this process. Therefore, chemical process design is to transform the research results of chemical researchers into real products with practical industrial benefits through engineering design.
From a macro point of view, chemical process design is to help all kinds of chemical plants to design and build, and to help start construction and produce qualified products. At this point, it is similar to the combination of architectural design and civil engineering.
From the microscopic work content, it includes simulation calculation, drawing and practical application of chemical engineering principles, thermodynamics and other disciplines. As well as the comparison and optimization of production schemes, the optimal choice is made according to the variables of energy consumption, environmental protection, cost and reliability of various production processes. It can be said that the work of process design is the most suitable post in chemical engineering.
In addition to production design, what positions can chemical engineering students engage in?
This is the employment situation of pharmaceutical engineering that we will introduce at last. Generally speaking, graduates majoring in pharmaceutical engineering will choose pharmaceutical engineers as the starting point of their career development if they do not choose to change careers.
Pharmaceutical engineers should not only know the design of pharmaceutical production process, but also be responsible for supervising and managing the operation of pharmaceutical production line, which requires engineers to be familiar with all production processes and check the equipment of production line strictly according to standards every day to ensure the normal production of pharmaceutical factories every day. This work represents the production link of the chemical industry, which is biased towards the operation and management of production equipment and close to the professional knowledge of the university.
The intention enterprises of pharmaceutical engineers are naturally all kinds of pharmaceutical companies, including well-known pharmaceutical companies at home and abroad, Pfizer, Johnson & Johnson and GlaxoSmithKline abroad, Xinhua Pharmaceutical, Harbin Pharmaceutical Group and Sinopharm Group at home.
Although there is little demand for pharmaceutical talents in the market, pharmaceutical engineers, especially those with master's degree or above, are very scarce because a large number of pharmaceutical students change careers after graduation. Well-known pharmaceutical companies are also in a desperate situation. Therefore, in order to go further on the road of pharmacy, further study is an unavoidable barrier for students.
The above is a preliminary introduction to the work of the chemical industry. Again, in this issue, only the representative jobs in the chemical industry are divided into three sub-sectors, but the barriers between jobs are different according to the company's requirements for talents. For example, in chemical industry employment, it is difficult for chemical engineering students who enter the top 500 chemical companies in the world to enter the R&D layer and can only do supply chain, but this does not mean that students cannot enter the R&D team of domestic strong chemical companies.
In addition, the occupations that chemical industry can engage in include patent agency, civil servants of relevant departments, university teachers, chemical consulting and so on. However, these positions either do not reflect the characteristics of this major, or they need years of work experience to become industry elites, so I won't elaborate here.
Summary of key points:
1, the professional choice of chemical engineering is very wide, which can be roughly divided into two major industries: consumer goods industry and chemical industry; ?
2. Generally, domestic students majoring in chemical engineering can't enter the R&D level of enterprises. Although they don't use much professional knowledge in product sales and supply, they are well paid.
3. Employment in the energy and chemical industry is generally to go to an energy and chemical processing and production enterprise, become a petrochemical engineer and a coal chemical engineer, and conduct production design;
4, pharmaceutical engineering employment if you don't choose to change careers, pharmaceutical engineers will be the mainstream career development starting point, with a master's degree or above can become the talents needed by well-known pharmaceutical companies.