Instrumentation Engineers can work in R & D units of public and private companies. They are also required by heavy industry such as thermal power plants, steel mills, refineries and cement and fertilizer plants. You have to play a multidisciplinary role. You can choose to side career in other areas within or outside their industry. This could be such areas as purchasing, sales, marketing, finance, HR, IT or general management. These engineers monitor based consulting work. Those who have an aptitude test used their expertise they gained in industry and in academic research at universities or purchase tutoring / coaching role as a teacher or coach of the instrumentation, engineers. Senior level positions are occupied with a Masters Degree and they bear the highest responsibility and the planning and management activities can, as well as leading to new developments. Senior engineers in production and operation functions can often be representative at board level.