05:30 PM - 06:30 PM (GMT+1)
From Engineer to Project Manager: Skills, Experience & Career Roadmap
Humzaa Imtiaz Ullah
$10
Webinar Description
What you will learn?
Guest Speaker
Project management is one of the most common career directions for engineers who want to combine technical understanding with leadership, coordination, business, and decision-making. But moving into project management usually requires more than simply changing your job title.
In this webinar, we explore the transition from engineering roles into project-oriented and project management careers. We will discuss the responsibilities of project managers, transferable engineering skills, stakeholder management, planning, risk, budgets, suppliers, documentation, communication, and cross-functional coordination. We will also look at possible intermediate roles and experiences that can help engineers gradually build credibility for project management positions.
The webinar is aimed at students, early-career engineers, and experienced technical professionals who are considering whether project management may be a suitable long-term career direction.
By the end of this webinar, participants will be able to:
Understand the core responsibilities of an engineering project manager.
Identify engineering skills that transfer naturally into project management.
Recognise additional competencies needed for project-oriented roles.
Understand the importance of stakeholder management, communication, risk, cost, and planning.
Identify possible pathways from technical engineering roles into project management.
Develop a clearer strategy for gaining relevant project experience.
Humzaa Imtiaz is the Founder of ChemEnggLife and a Chemical & Biochemical Engineer from DTU. His career has involved engineering project environments, cross-functional coordination, quality systems, procurement, supplier-related activities, and technical documentation. In his current engineering project work, he has held responsibility for coordinating document-management activities across multiple areas of large projects and working with a range of technical and project stakeholders. His experience provides a practical perspective on the skills engineers need to develop when moving toward greater project responsibility and coordination.