Career Prospects

Your career begins well before you commence your first professional job. IExpE have all the information you require to help you lay the groundwork of the road to success.

Whether you’re interested in a graduate scheme, work placement or gap year, IExpE will help you to choose the path that best supports your ambitions.

Continuous Professional Development

Now affiliated to both The Engineering Council (UK) and the European Federation of Explosives Engineers, The Institute maintains the highest standards amongst members, sometimes requiring individual applicants to pass an examination to secure membership and by offering structured support to enhance members’ continued professional development. The Institute will also assign mentors to members to assist with professional registration through our affiliation with the Engineering Council (UK).

We place considerable emphasis on members maintaining and updating a Continued Professional Development (CPD) record and to help ensure this is updated effectively members can link to customised software provided by The Engineering Council. For those undertaking a route to one of three types of Professional Registration, IExpE will randomly sample members CPD records as a further commitment to ensuring we maintain high standards across the membership.

The Education & Training Department

The Training and Education Department creates, promotes and fosters individual and organisational effectiveness, by sourcing and offering an array of innovative and diverse programmes in support of the organisation’s commitment to provide a sustained and prosperous UK energetics sector, with recognised world class skills satisfying present and future business needs.

Events

The Institute hosts national events to provide opportunities to raise the profile of individual, company and corporate members. The Institute will keep our membership base up to date on information on general trends and news throughout the industry, enhancing knowledge of different sectors and technologies. Not only do the Institute host events we also participate in many conferences, seminars, and briefings each year.

IExpE Journal

Explosives Engineering has a membership-based circulation of approximately 2000 highly qualified engineers and specialists. In addition Explosives Engineering is circulates to academics, other professional institutions and commercial organisations. The aim of the quarterly published journal is to support the Institute in its aim of promoting and supporting the professional standards of those involved in the global explosives industry.

Jobs Board

The Institute of Explosives Engineers will provide employment opportunities across all sectors of the explosives industry and ensure you are ready to take on a range of exciting work prospects.

Knowledgebase

The Institute offers members access to a live forum for discussions with professionals in over twenty different sectors within the explosives industry, whether it be for a professional opinion or to ask a question, this live forum will guarantee you an answer.

Online Resource Library

Members are able to access the following further information from our online Resource Library:

• Training Centres providing courses relevant to the explosives industry
• Table of IExpE endorsed training courses
• Typical Career Roles
• Routes to Professional Accreditation
• Latest Job Opportunities
• Secondments Template: Typical Work Placement Objectives Typical Secondment Agreement between Companies

Many More Benefits

• Route to Professional Registration with the Engineering CounciI
• IExpE Identification Card
• Ability to apply for a Construction Skills Certifcation Scheme (CSCS) Card
• Opportunities to share or test your ideas with others through publication of articles or presenting at conferences
• Ability to record CPD via MyCareerPath