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Looking For a Cool Career that Puts You in Control?

 

What is Automation? 
Automation is the creation and application of technology to monitor and control the production of goods and services.

Where do
Automation Professionals work?

  • Disney World
  • Siemens
  • Frito-Lay
  • Sea World
  • Busch Gardens
  • NASA
  • Microsoft
  • Boeing
  • Sony
  • NASCAR teams
  • Nuclear Plants…
…Where do you want to work?

Then get ready to join the thousands of automation professionals already out there who know these—and many more— awesome benefits of a career in automation:

  • Save lives, prevent disease, reduce poverty, and protect our planet

    A career in automation offers you intellectual and technical challenges that can actually make a difference in the world. Your imagination, skills, and experience will shape the world of tomorrow. You could have the chance to work on solving problems for dozens of important fields, like medicine, the environment, and homeland security.

  • Create and innovate

    A career in automation allows you to stretch your mind and put your creativity to the test every single day. Find new ways to solve problems, invent new processes, design better products - you’ll be innovating the future every time you come to work.

  • Improve the quality of everyday life

    Automation professionals don’t just save lives; they make lives more enjoyable and easier every day. Everywhere you look, you’ll see examples of engineering having a positive effect on everyday life. Cars are safer, sound systems deliver better acoustics, medical tests are more accurate, and computers and cell phones are a lot more fun.

  • Show yourself the money (and the benefits)

    Let’s face it. You’d like to have a financially rewarding career that offers benefits and perks, too. Automation professionals are very well paid, and there’s lots of opportunity for advancement in the field if you’re willing to work hard and keep learning. The benefits are great, including being able to make decisions and work independently in many jobs. Plus, since automation is such an international profession, many automation professionals get to travel abroad for their companies.

  • Secure your life and set up your future

    Unemployment for professional engineers, technicians, and operators is very low. Automation professionals are in high demand, and that won’t go away anytime soon since automation is the future of the global economy. Many professions can’t say the same thing, so automation professionals are fortunate to have the security of knowing they’ll be needed even more in the next ten years than in the last ten.

Jumpstart your automation career today! Use our tools and resources, including our Career Library, to find out how to get started.