Engineer a Career

Every engineer's instinct is to chase efficiency: more power, better shapes, cleaner numbers. Adarsh Bhardwaj thinks that instinct is exactly what's holding the renewables sector back.In this special episode, Josh is...

Josh sat down with Ryan to talk through his journey from the wee computer guy fixing the school projector to co-founding an AI advisory business, and how a career in software engineering shaped the way he now thinks...

Applications open in weeks. The people who get the internships, placements and graduate roles are the ones who are ready before they do.In the last of four episodes for the new academic year, Josh shares what he'd tell...

The simplest habit in this episode is the one you'll wish you'd started sooner.Sixteen years ago, in his first job, Josh was told to keep a notepad. He still does over 25 of them now, filled with notes from across his...

Josh is back with more steps to build your way to a career in engineering. This one's about the skills you already have and aren't talking about. You go to university or college, you get the degree but the part-time...

Ep 60

Josh sat down with Ryan to talk through his journey from electrical apprentice to chartered engineer, and how he ended up working as a senior project manager in Perth, Australia. What stands out about Ryan's story is...

It's Episode 58, and it's time to share what it's really like being a member of one of our strategic partners, the Energy Institute. Ubong Essien is a PhD researcher at the University of Strathclyde and Secretary of the...

Emma joined Network Rail in 2019 as a technical clerk, providing admin support to a team of civil engineers. She had no engineering background, she'd left school in 2000 with Highers in languages, and her route since...

Episode 56 of the Engineer a Career Podcast, with Josh joined by John Casey. John Casey started his engineering career at 16, spending eight weeks of work experience at a wind farm in southwest Scotland after bombing...

Katie started her engineering career at 18, turning down a university place to take an apprenticeship at Jacobs, a decision she had to make before she'd even sat her Highers. Eleven years on, she's a Chartered Engineer...

It's International Women in Engineering Day 2026 and this year we are so excited to introduce our guest Jessica Gagen. Jessica is an aerospace sales engineer at Gulfstream Aerospace, a Miss England and Miss World UK...

Josh sits down with Mamta Singhal MBE, who found her calling early, taking apart plugs and mechanisms as a child long before she knew the word "engineer." Inspired by James Dyson and a Tom Hanks film about a toy...

What does it actually take to build a career in engineering when the path is anything but straight?In this episode, Josh sits down with Susan Ipri-Brown, immediate past president of the American Society of Mechanical...

<p>Paul is an independent consultant working at the nexus of public and private heat networks, having most recently spent five years at Vattenfall and, before that, a long career at Whitby Bird and Ramboll.His route in...