Engineering, Construction & Manufacturing
"Technology is helping create a manufacturing boom in New Mexico. At Eclipse Aviation we're creating opportunities for New Mexicans with the right skills to work in aerospace and with companies that are revolutionizing the transportation market."
Vern Raburn
President and CEO,
Eclipse Aviation
Are You Interested in Manufacturing or Construction?
There are several career paths in engineering, manufacturing and construction industries:
- Architecture and Drafting
- Systems Integration Engineering
- Media Technology
- Software Application Development
- Web Development
- Printing Technology
- Network Systems
- AgriBusiness
Engineering, construction and manufacturing are the building blocks for designing, developing and producing any structure that shapes the world we live in or product that defines how we interact in that world.
The New Mexico Economic Development Department has launched an aggressive campaign to recruit light manufacturers to the state with notable success. The state has an ever-growing aviation sector, including multinational corporations like Honeywell, GE Aircraft, and Eclipse Aviation. Food processing, another manufacturing sector has added jobs. Eastern New Mexico is home to the largest mozzarella and cheddar cheese manufacturing plants in the country. By the end of 2006, Merillat Industries will have completed construction of $36 million, 260,000 square foot facility in Los Lunas where they will employ 700 New Mexicans and manufacture cabinets.
According to the New Mexico Department of Labor manufacturing employment is expected to increase 12.8 percent from 2002 to 2012. Manufacturing is projected to add 4,930 jobs. The largest number of new jobs will be added in the manufacturing of computer and the electronic products sub sector, followed by food manufacturing. The projection in these sub sectors calls for job growth of 2,080 jobs or 18 percent and 1,180 or roughly 21 percent, respectively. Employment in construction in New Mexico is expected to grow by about 5,680 jobs or 12.4 percent through 2012. The largest growth will occur in building construction which is expected to increase by about 2,500 jobs followed by heavy and civil engineering construction which is projected to add 1,330 jobs or 15.6%. Specialty construction trade contractors are projected to grow by 1,820 jobs or 7.6 percent.
Professionals in this field make devices and designs attractive yet affordable, functional but also safe.