Engineering, manufacturing, technology and construction: useful links and news sources

Key employers

According to the 2010 R&D Scoreboard, 222 of the 1000 top UK companies by R&D spend were in engineering, manufacturing or construction, with a total R&D spend of over £4bn in 2009 [2010 R&D Scoreboard]. The top companies by R&D spend were all in aerospace or automotive engineering; Rolls Royce; Airbus; Ford; Bentley and Jaguar, with Selex Sensors the other company to have spent more than £100m on R&D in 2009. The largest R&D investors per head were glass and materials engineers: Pilkingtons; medium-sized component manufacturers Plastic Logic; the small auto part manufacturer Antonov; Toshiba and Mercedes-Benz.

Caterpillar Marine Power; Rosemount Aerospace; Page Aerospace; Plastic Logic; Rapiscan Systems (manufacturer of security and scanning systems for airports); Logan Teleflex (manufacturer of airport baggage handling systems); Bombardier Aerospace and Siemens all saw R&D investment increase by over 200% in the four years to 2009.

• The Manufacturing Institute 
• SEMTA: The Sector Skills Council for Science, Engineering and Manufacturing Technologies 
• AeroSpace Defense Security (ADS)
• Aerospace Technology
• Association of the British Pharmaceutical Industry (ABPI)
• Auto Industry 
• Biotechnology Ireland 
• British Glass 
• British Plastics Federation 
• British Plastics and Rubber Online 
• The British Printing Industries Federation (BPIF) 
• The Career Engineer 
• Concept Car - job vacancies in the automotive industry
• Energy Institute
• The Engineer
• Fédération Européenne d'Associations Nationales d'Ingénieurs (FEANI)
• Inside Careers: Engineering and Technology 
• Institute of Materials, Minerals and Mining (IOM3)
• Institute of Measurement and Control 
• Institute of Physics and Engineering in Medicine (IPEM)
• Institution of Chemical Engineers (IChemE)
• Institution of Civil Engineers (ICE)
• Institution of Engineering and Technology (IET)
• Institute of Engineering and Technology (IET) job board
• Institution of Mechanical Engineers (IMechE)
• Institution of Structural Engineers (IStructE) 
• Matchtech
• New Civil Engineer 
• Process Engineering 
• Professional Engineering 
• Royal Aeronautical Society (RAeS)
• Society of British Aerospace Companies (SBAC) Directory 
• Thomas Telford Recruitment
• Food Industry Careers - UK food jobs
• Knowledge Transfer Partnerships (KTP) 
• London Biotechnology Network 
• Manufacturing Recruitment 
• Matchtech 
• New Scientist 
• Oil and Gas Job Search 
• Packaging Futures
• Process Engineering
• The Royal Institution of Naval Architects (RINA)
• Scottish Enterprise Life Sciences
• Shell STEP - project-based work placement programme for students and graduates
• Thomas Telford Recruitment 
• Thomson Local - search for small and medium-sized manufacturing companies
• Work Placement Centre 
• Yellow Pages - search for small and medium-sized manufacturing companies
• Automotive Engineer 
• Confederation of British Industry (CBI)
• Engineering UK
• Department for Business, Innovation and Skills (BIS)
• Engineering UK
• Engineering Council UK (ECUK)
• Engineering Employers' Federation (EEF)
• Engineering Opportunities Online 
• Packaging Society 
• Royal Academy of Engineering 
• SEMTA: The Sector Skills Council for Science, Engineering and Manufacturing Technologies 
• Society of British Aerospace Companies (SBAC) Directory 
• UK Resource Centre for Women in Science, Engineering and Technology