Your day-to-day duties might include:

• assessing the environmental impact of agricultural production methods
• supervising construction projects, like land drainage, reclamation and irrigation
• solving engineering problems, like designing all-terrain vehicles to move over uneven ground in different weather conditions
• testing and installing new equipment, like harvesters, crop sprayers and logging machinery
• using GPS, weather data and computer modelling to advise farmers and businesses on land use
• planning service and repair programmes for machinery

You could work in an office, on a farm or in a laboratory.

Your working environment may be outdoors in all weathers.

With experience you could move into project management or specialist technical research and development.

You could also work towards incorporated or chartered engineer status by applying to the Engineering Council. As a chartered engineer you’ll plan, research and develop new ideas. The Institution of Agricultural Engineers has more information.

You could also move into technical sales, business development, teaching or consultancy work.