how engineers usually dress for their jobs????

Question

I want to be an engineer but I want a job tha I dress in suit???????????

Answer 1

Engineers I've worked with pretty much always wear a collared shirt, decent slacks and shoes (almost never blue jeans). The bigger the company, the more likely that they also wear a tie.

Suits are usually for important meetings or business trips only, not for everyday engineering work.

Answer 2

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Answer 3

I wear shorts, sandals and a T shirt to work. Thats on the extreme side though but Im part owner and we dont have customers come in. In a normal company it usually jeans and a nice shirt (polo or button up) unless you are having a meeting with a customer. Even then its not a suit and tie job! Let the suits wear the suits, engineers never do (not the good ones).

Answer 4

You will never be a good engineer if you WANT to wear a suit!

It takes a free thinking mind to be a good engineer. That type of person has no need for the snobby dress codes of 40 years ago.

I, and all the engineers I have worked with, wore jeans 90% of the time and maybe Dockers 10%.

You need to be comfortable to do a good job. Suits are not comfortable.

Answer 5

I think you should plan to be on the business end of Engineering if you want to wear a suit. I work for a construction company as an engineer and we only wear suits for Meetings. Other wise it is a collared shirt and jeans. Also Look at design engineering with computer systems.

Answer 6

Any engineer I've known who hasn't dressed for his job no longer has a job, but maybe some angineer at a nudist camp is ok with not dressing.
As far as the suit thing goes, I know of few jobs that would make you not wear a suit if that's what you wanted to wear, but I also know many jobs where your suit would get pretty f'd up if that's what you choose to wear. Who wants to wear a suit if they don't have to? Maybe you should be a consultant!

Answer 7

I went to probably more than 10 interviews and every company is different.

An engineering consulting firm might require a business suit all the time. At the software company I used to work for, some of the employees were wearing pajamas. Most engineering companies, including the one I work for, let their employees wear jeans and a nce shirt. Sometimes I wear designer ripped jeans and a blazer at meetings.

Answer 8

Having recruited all types of engineers in many industries including manfuacturing, civil, R&D, etc., the most common dress code is business casual (khakis & polo shirt). Sometimes manufacturing and construction engineers wear jeans due to getting dirty on the plant floor or in the field. Of course, there are occasions where suits are called for such as presentations, client meetings, etc, however the majority of the time it's business casual.

Answer 9

This really depends on the type of engineer and the company and is not really engineering specific.

I would guess that most engineers anymore dress in business casual (kakis, oxford shirt), no tie. That is how my company works, and many of the places I visit. A few companies even allow jeans and polo shirts.

About the only time I wear a tie is when meeting with clients or going to funerals or weddings.

Answer 10

My best friend is a chemical engineer and wears jeans and a nice dress shirt to work everyday. He has to wear suits for meetings but when he is in the field or lab, he wears everyday nice clothes, not a suit. He could afford to though, engineers make a lot of money!

Answer 11

Most engineer firms I have worked in the dress code was bussiness casual. Meaning casual pants and polo shirts where find. However, the more I went to meetings and met with clients, I had to dress up in a shirt and tie. However, I did have some industrial clients that would come to meetings in jeans and t-shirts so I usually wore jeans and a polo shirt with my companies logo.
You shouldn't decide on a carreer on how you dress. I did interview at a company that did alot of millitary work that everyone was dressed up (even the forklift operators).