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Welcome to The Engineer a Career Podcast, brought to you by Engineer a Career! Join us as we delve into the fascinating journeys of engineers from various fields and backgrounds. Each episode features an in-depth interview with a seasoned professional who share their personal stories, from their initial interest in engineering to their experience in education and beyond! Discover the highs and lows of their careers, the inspirations that fueled their passion, and the mentors and coaches who guided them along the way. Our guests also provide invaluable advice for anyone aspiring to pursue a career in engineering, offering insights that can help you navigate your own path to success. Whether you're a student considering engineering, a recent graduate starting out, or a professional looking to make a change, The Engineer a Career Podcast is your go-to for real-world stories and practical advice to engineer your future.

  1. Your Way of Thinking Isn't Wrong

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    Your Way of Thinking Isn't Wrong

    Episode 56 of the Engineer a Career Podcast, with Josh joined by John Casey. John Casey started his engineering career at 16, spending eight weeks of work experience at a wind farm in southwest Scotland after bombing his fourth-year exams and pouring everything into boxing. Nine years on, he's a senior engineer who's returned to that very same wind farm, this time delivering its extension. In this episode, John talks through the apprenticeship route that took him from four days on site and one day at college through to a civil engineering degree, and the honest reality behind a LinkedIn profile that looks like a smooth, gradual climb. We get into the imposter syndrome of being the first in his family to go to university, the crunch point in second year when he nearly walked away from engineering altogether, and the mindset shift that turned his career around. John shares why attention to detail and problem-solving are the skills he leans on every day, the role mentors played in empowering him to step up, and winning a regional ICE Princess Royal Award for his work on temporary works governance. It's a candid conversation about integrity, hard work, and trusting your own way of thinking, whatever your report card says.

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  2. Earning and Learning: Apprenticeship to Chartered Engineer

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    Earning and Learning: Apprenticeship to Chartered Engineer

    Katie started her engineering career at 18, turning down a university place to take an apprenticeship at Jacobs, a decision she had to make before she'd even sat her Highers. Eleven years on, she's a Chartered Engineer who's worked on site at Grangemouth, spent nine months on assignment in Malaysia, and built her career the earning-and-learning way. In this episode, recorded back at GCU where it all began, Katie talks through the apprenticeship route and why it suited her, the reality of balancing four days of work with a long day at uni, and the imposter syndrome that came with walking into an office at 18, including the two-minute trick she has used to managed imposter syndrome. We get into life on site versus the engineering office, what it actually takes to achieve chartership, and why she's a believer in measuring your career against the UK-SPEC competences. It's an honest conversation about backing yourself, asking the questions, and the long game of building a career one project at a time.

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  3. There's Space in STEM for Everybody

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    There's Space in STEM for Everybody

    It's International Women in Engineering Day 2026 and this year we are so excited to introduce our guest Jessica Gagen. Jessica is an aerospace sales engineer at Gulfstream Aerospace, a Miss England and Miss World UK winner, and one of the most visible STEM advocates in the country. Her route into engineering didn't follow a straight line, it went through a modeling career, a supermarket shelf, a physics resit at 23, and a pageant stage in front of cameras from 112 countries. But every step of it made her the engineer she is today. In this episode, Jessica talks about why she chose engineering after reverse-engineering the careers of global CEOs on LinkedIn, what it actually means to be a sales engineer, and how skills from modeling and pageantry translate directly into high-pressure technical environments. She also shares her honest take on what holds young people back from engineering and what visibility really means when you're the first engineer to win Miss England. Whether you're a student trying to make sense of where your degree could take you, or someone who still thinks engineering means overalls and a lathe, this one is for you.

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  4. Your Network is Your Net Worth

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    Your Network is Your Net Worth

    Josh sits down with Mamta Singhal MBE, who found her calling early, taking apart plugs and mechanisms as a child long before she knew the word "engineer." Inspired by James Dyson and a Tom Hanks film about a toy designer, she set herself a single goal: to engineer the things that make children smile. She studied product design engineering at Glasgow University and the Glasgow School of Art, landed a graduate placement at Dyson, and at 23 was working at Hasbro on Star Wars, Lord of the Rings and Action Man. In this episode, Mamta takes Josh through a career spanning Hasbro, Coca-Cola and Mattel, and into her incoming role as Vice President of the IET. She talks about form and function as inseparable, the importance of company culture over title, and why she's never had a plan B. The conversation moves into the territory that drives her now: getting more women into engineering and keeping them there, the role of male allies, mentorship as a duty rather than a favour, and her new venture, the Top Percent Club, supporting senior women navigating the altitude at the top of the profession. Mamta is honest about the failures behind the awards, the Hoover rejection before the Dyson job, the dozens of knockbacks for every success and makes the case that engineering needs less stereotypical engineers, not more of the same. A genuinely inspiring conversation about purpose, resilience, and leaving a legacy.

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  5. Workforce, Capability and the Engineering Pipeline

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    Workforce, Capability and the Engineering Pipeline

    What does it actually take to build a career in engineering when the path is anything but straight?In this episode, Josh sits down with Susan Ipri-Brown, immediate past president of the American Society of Mechanical Engineers, one of the oldest engineering institutions in the world. From a grandfather who never doubted she'd follow him into the profession, to internships at General Motors, to teaching, to leading ASME, to starting her own company, Susan's "squiggly line" is a masterclass in adaptability.We get into the gap between what universities produce and what industry needs, why students underestimate the story they've already built, and how knowing your capabilities, including the ones you don't yet have, changes the way you grow. Susan also makes the case for professional societies as a place to lead before your job lets you, and reflects on what mentorship really looks like across a career.A genuinely transatlantic conversation on workforce development, self-awareness, and why engineering is, at its heart, about possibility. Follow Engineer a Career -LinkedIn: @engineeracareerInstagram: @engineeracareerTikTok: @engineer.a.careerYouTube: @engineeracareerWebsite: www.engineeracareer.co.uk

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  6. Heat Networks, Chartership and Backing Young Engineers

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    Heat Networks, Chartership and Backing Young Engineers

    Paul is an independent consultant working at the nexus of public and private heat networks, having most recently spent five years at Vattenfall and, before that, a long career at Whitby Bird and Ramboll.His route in started early, a grandfather he knew as an engineer without ever learning what he did, an uncle's stories over slabs of Irn Bru, a laser lab in Liverpool, and a week of work experience on a harbour build that showed him the scale and impact of real infrastructure. A gap-year CAD job became a general engineering degree at Cambridge, which became geotechnics almost by chance when Whitby Bird won the BBC Broadcasting House project, which eventually became energy, and then heat networks, the only thing he does now.In this episode, we explore what a non-linear engineering career actually looks like from the inside why exposure matters more than knowing exactly where you'll end up, how the mentors who gave him space to learn and fail shaped everything, and why he went from "total skeptic" of district heating to total advocate. We talk about the Scotland Heat Map he helped build, the economic case for backing young engineers early, and what it really takes to move from doing the engineering to leading the people who do it. We also get into chartership why he failed the first time, why he deserved to, and what the second attempt taught him, plus his belief that the future of heat lies in coordinated regional energy companies rather than 32 organisations repeating the same lessons.This is an honest conversation for students and early career engineers wondering how a career builds when you stay open to the pivot have a spark, keep feeding it, and be careful not to overfeed it. Connect with Paul Steen on LinkedIn - https://www.linkedin.com/in/paulsteen Follow Engineer a Career - LinkedIn: @engineeracareer Instagram: @engineeracareer TikTok: @engineer.a.career YouTube: @engineeracareer Website: www.engineeracareer.co.uk

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  7. Episode 50 - There's No Straight Line Into Engineering

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    Episode 50 - There's No Straight Line Into Engineering

    Episode 50. Two years, 56 guests. There's no straight line into engineering. In this milestone solo episode, recorded at the National Manufacturing Institute Scotland (NMIS), Josh shares the four things 49 conversations have taught him about how people actually build careers in engineering, why the routes in matter far less than what you do once you're there, and why there's never been a more important time to back young people into this industry. Josh also joined by Kirsty Pinnell, who leads the internship programme at NMIS, to talk about what a real route into industry looks like in practice. ______ National Manufacturing Institute Scotland - https://www.nmis.scot NMIS Internship 2026 Programme -https://www.nmis.scot/work-with-us/careers/internship/ ______ Follow Engineer a CareerLinkedIn: @engineeracareerInstagram: @engineeracareerTikTok: @engineer.a.careerYouTube: @engineeracareerWebsite: www.engineeracareer.co.uk

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  8. Engineering, Energy and Self-Discovery

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    Engineering, Energy and Self-Discovery

    Tobias is a renewable energy engineer, founder of Embodied, and one of the most layered guests we've had on the podcast. His career has taken him from Germany to Sweden, the United States, China, Norway and now Scotland — through solar cell research at Fraunhofer, hydrogen compressor development, and into his own boutique engineering consultancy. But the most interesting part of his story isn't the geography. It's the mindset. In this conversation, Tobias and Josh get into why most jobs are never advertised, and why Tobias made a decision to never apply for a role again. They talk about the shift from negotiating for a job to laying out what you contribute, and how serendipity, openness and existing relationships have shaped every step of his career. From there the conversation moves into why "energy sovereignty" is a more useful frame than net zero, the embodied emissions hiding inside the renewables industry, and what it actually takes to bring engineering teams together around a shared cause. They close on how self-discovery, mindfulness and bio-inspired thinking are changing how Tobias designs. If you're a student or graduate engineer who's tired of the application treadmill, or an engineering leader thinking about how your teams really work, there's something in this one for you.

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Welcome to The Engineer a Career Podcast, brought to you by Engineer a Career! Join us as we delve into the fascinating journeys of engineers from various fields and backgrounds. Each episode features an in-depth interview with a seasoned professional who share their personal stories, from their initial interest in engineering to their experience in education and beyond! Discover the highs and lows of their careers, the inspirations that fueled their passion, and the mentors and coaches who guided them along the way. Our guests also provide invaluable advice for anyone aspiring to pursue a career in engineering, offering insights that can help you navigate your own path to success. Whether you're a student considering engineering, a recent graduate starting out, or a professional looking to make a change, The Engineer a Career Podcast is your go-to for real-world stories and practical advice to engineer your future.

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