Your day-to-day tasks may include:

• researching and designing new generating sites
• deciding on the best locations for sites
• planning and overseeing production programmes for sites
• managing and coordinating teams of technicians or site workers
• designing and selecting equipment
• meeting environmental standards, like carbon reduction targets
• finding the most cost efficient and productive processes
• carrying out laboratory experiments
• converting experiments into large-scale industrial processes
• working with geologists, geophysicists and specialist contractors
• managing projects and budgets

You could work at a power station, in an office, in a laboratory or on a rig.

With experience, you could move into planning, policy development, or freelance consultancy.