Marine engineering majors have a hard time finding a job right out of college. Graduates with a marine engineering degree are entering a strange job market and it can be hard to find your first job in marine engineering. To make finding a job easier, Zippia scanned through 815 marine engineering major resumes to identify the jobs marine engineering majors most prefer.
Highest-Paying Jobs With a Marine Engineering Degree
- Starting Salary$69,000Job openings11,675Top Locations:Houston, TX; Fort Lauderdale, FL; Seattle, WA;Job Description:Marine engineers and naval architects design, build, and maintain ships from aircraft carriers to submarines, from sailboats to tankers. Marine engineers are primarily responsible for the internal systems of a ship, such as propulsion, electrical, refrigeration, and steering. Naval architects are primarily responsible for the ship design, including the form, structure, and stability of hulls.
- Starting Salary$59,000Job openings21,738Top Locations:Corvallis, OR; Morgan City, LA; Arlington, VA;Job Description:Marine engineers and naval architects design, build, and maintain ships from aircraft carriers to submarines, from sailboats to tankers. Marine engineers are primarily responsible for the internal systems of a ship, such as propulsion, electrical, refrigeration, and steering. Naval architects are primarily responsible for the ship design, including the form, structure, and stability of hulls.
- Starting Salary$58,000Job openings105,618Top Locations:Job Description:Mechanical engineering is one of the broadest engineering disciplines. Mechanical engineers design, develop, build, and test mechanical and thermal sensors and devices, including tools, engines, and machines.
- Starting Salary$55,000Job openings176,689Top Locations:Job Description:Mechanical engineering is one of the broadest engineering disciplines. Mechanical engineers design, develop, build, and test mechanical and thermal sensors and devices, including tools, engines, and machines.
- Starting Salary$49,000Job openings13,440Top Locations:Washington, DC; Chicago, IL; Houston, TX;Job Description:General maintenance and repair workers fix and maintain machines, mechanical equipment, and buildings. They paint, repair flooring, and work on plumbing, electrical, and air-conditioning and heating systems.
- Starting Salary$38,000Job openings74,730Top Locations:Houston, TX; New Orleans, LA; Arlington, VA;Job Description:Marine engineers and naval architects design, build, and maintain ships from aircraft carriers to submarines, from sailboats to tankers. Marine engineers are primarily responsible for the internal systems of a ship, such as propulsion, electrical, refrigeration, and steering. Naval architects are primarily responsible for the ship design, including the form, structure, and stability of hulls.
- Starting Salary$37,000Job openings111,343Top Locations:Job Description:Industrial engineering technicians help industrial engineers implement designs to use personnel, materials, and machines effectively in factories, stores, healthcare organizations, repair shops, and offices. They prepare machinery and equipment layouts, plan workflows, conduct statistical production studies, and analyze production costs.
- Starting Salary$31,000Job openings4,430Top Locations:Job Description:Water transportation workers operate and maintain vessels that take cargo and people over water. The vessels travel to and from foreign ports across the ocean and to domestic ports along the coasts, across the Great Lakes, and along the country’s many inland waterways.
- Starting Salary$27,000Job openings97,722Top Locations:Job Description:Civil engineering technicians help civil engineers to plan, design, and build highways, bridges, utilities, and other infrastructure projects. They also help to plan, design, and build commercial, industrial, residential, and land development projects.
- Starting Salary$26,000Job openings2,651Top Locations:Fort Knox, KY; New York, NY; Los Angeles, CA;Job Description:Water transportation workers operate and maintain vessels that take cargo and people over water. The vessels travel to and from foreign ports across the ocean and to domestic ports along the coasts, across the Great Lakes, and along the country’s many inland waterways.
