The Randall & Associates Ltd Process:

1. We both need a requirements specification. If you don't have one, we'll help you generate one. (No Charge)

2. We provide you with a free estimate (No Charge)

3. You decide that's great! Lets get together.

4. We visit you on site if needed and we talk to you some more about the job.

5. We provide a full written brief of the job, and if it feels right, you sign a contract to allow us to start the work.

6. Sit back and relax, knowing we're on the job!

Why our guys & girls took up engineering:

Nigel: "I wanted to be an engineer since I was about 9 or 10! It was either that or a vet - I'm glad I chose engineering, because it's awesome to be able to create something I'm proud of and to help people make their businesses better. The weird thing is, my daughter is now over half way toward being a vet!"

Engineering as a Career

RANDALL & ASSOCIATES LTD - ENGINEERING AS A CAREER

CONGRATULATIONS!! Hopefully if you're reading this, you're considering or have selected engineering as your career choice. Wow, what a job it is!

Draughting and consulting mechanical engineers are in short supply and in high demand nationally and internationally. To become a professional engineer, you will need to be prepared to undertake a long term study programme for the four year full time degree in mechanical engineering. You can expect excellent pay, intellectually challenging work, and good long term prospects in this field.

This is a career option for a young person with excellent maths, specifically algebra and geometry skills, and science. You will need strong english skills, as you need to be able to read specification information and comprehend the application of that information to your design work. This is a design application and draughting career at the upper level of the engineering field using computers with AutoCAD, and 3D modelling programmes.

We've borrowed an explanation off Mechanical Engineering as a career website (be aware it is American): "Mechanical engineering is a subset of general engineering. Engineers use science and mathematical principles to solve technical problems. Since they often create new products to solve these problems, they are in high demand. Engineers are essentially inventors. By dreaming up ideas and turning them into a reality they push technology to its limits. Therefore, there is a great deal of prestige to be gained by becoming an engineer. Mechanical engineers are specialised engineers who work with mechanical devices. These may include elevators, refrigeration and air-conditioning equipment, robots, electric generators. Mechanical engineers design tools used in other engineering disciplines"

The Institution of Professional Engineers (IPENZ) have a GREAT website explaining all about the various career paths and training options you can choose

On the degree side of things:

Canterbury University's website gives a great description of what is involved as well: "Skills developed by studying Mechanical Engineering include practical problem solving - using logic - and the ability to think laterally. In addition, you'll have enhance your project management knowledge (and experience of working in project teams) and your organisational and mathematical modelling abilities. Your degree will have required a high level of attention to detail; aptitude in oral and written communication; research, mechanical and computer skills and creativity through design and drawing. In addition to gaining a great deal of knowledge and technical skills during your degree you will have developed your capacity to think quantitatively. Involvement in project work will have helped you appreciate the importance of good planning and careful execution of your work. In addition, when working as part of a group, you will have had the opportunity to appreciate the value of co-operation, teamwork and leadership".

Auckland University are the other providers of a degree in mechanical engineering and Massey University in Palmerston North offer a Bachelor of Engineering degree in Mechatronics: "In business and industry world wide, there is an increasing demand for engineers with an integrated knowledge of mechanical engineering, electrical and electronic engineering, control engineering and computer technology. Mechatronics is the synergistic combination of precision mechanical engineering, electronic control, computer technology and a systems approach in the design of products and processes. Mechatronics engineers are expected to be employed in all sectors of manufacturing & electrical and electronic industry.  Specific activities include product design, manufacturing, system design, equipment and system control, robotics, automation, computer technology, quality control, industrial management, and marketing mechatronics products and services".

If you would like to enter your career as an engineer through the Diploma level, there are many polytechnics offering the two year course - once again, visit the IPENZ website and use their search engine to find a course near you.

Sold? PLEASE feel free to email us, give us a ring, use our online chat, or come in and visit - someone will be more than happy to talk with you and give you advice or support. AND, when you graduate, make sure you come & visit to see what a wonderful workplace Randall & Associates Ltd is!! We've got a growth strategy that will see us expanding to take over the world - well, at least bits of it, so we may need you alongside us.

Our company is designing and developing high-tech engineering applications mostly within the heavy transport industry, some specifically for the Land Transport Safety Authority. If you work for our business, you will be at the leading edge, designing revolutionary new road transport items.

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