Engineering in Poland is a respected and growing career field, supported by a strong technical education tradition and an expanding industrial base. Demand for engineers is strong, particularly in sectors like manufacturing, automation, construction, energy, and IT, with competitive salaries and strong employment prospects both in Poland and across the EU.
Common pathways into engineering careers include university engineering degrees and engineering-focused vocational programs that combine academic study with practical experience. Major employers of engineering graduates include GE Aerospace, Siemens, ABB, Bosch, Intel, and Polish engineering and construction firms operating nationally and internationally.
Use this page to explore your career options and consider which educational pathway may be the best fit for you. We encourage students and trusted adults to discuss the options and plan next steps together.
About 4% of jobs in Poland are engineering and technology related. This is lower than the EU average, indicating significant demand.
Engineering is among the higher-paying careers in Poland. Graduates often start on annual salaries around 90,000 - 110,000 PLN, with experienced engineers earning 150,000 - 300,000+ PLN annually, depending on sector and location.
Poland will need tens of thousands of new engineers each year over the next decade to meet growing demand in sectors like advanced manufacturing, renewable energy, automation, transport, and digital technologies.
Step 1: Explore Your Goals and Interests
The first step in pursuing any career is to start with yourself. Taking some time to clarify what you like and what’s important to you in a career will make it easier to create a path that is just right for you.
Use our Goals and Interests tool to help you start your journey. It will guide your thinking through these important questions.
After working through the tool, do you feel like you have a better sense of:
Your values, the things that are most important to you?
Your interests, the things that you most enjoy doing?
Your skills and aptitudes, the things you are best suited to doing?
Your life and career goals, the things you most want to accomplish in the future?
It's not unusual for these things to change as you keep exploring your career pathways. Come back and use the tool again at any time!
Step 2: Explore Engineering Careers
Once you have identified your values, interests, skills, and goals, the next step is to learn more about engineering fields where you can express your values, apply your interests and skills, and achieve your goals.
Read more about different Engineering Disciplines or explore some of the exciting fields here.
Now that you’ve investigated some engineering fields, what are the top three fields you would like to explore further? You can always return to this step if you change your mind later, or when you learn about a new field.
Step 3: Explore Educational Pathways
Did you know that becoming an “engineer” is not the only career option? You can also become a technician or enter a skilled trade in many different fields. While professional engineers often focus on design, systems thinking, and analysis, technicians and technologists work alongside professional engineers, focusing on practical applications such as building, maintaining and repairing technical systems.
Each of these careers has different educational paths with different steps and requirements along the way. Use our Interactive Educational Paths tool to explore these paths in more detail to find which ones are best for you.
Now that you have explored some of the education paths and engineering careers available to you, which one do you think is best suited to your interests, skills, and career goals? Return to this step at any time to explore further!
Step 4: Explore Educational Institutions
Whatever your goal, whether it’s an engineering degree or vocational qualification, finding the right opportunity that fits your interests and goals is important. Engineering study can also be expensive! Therefore, you may need to take some time to find and access financial support.
Use our Find Your Fit tool to help you to research, evaluate, and compare different institutions and their offerings, as well as find different sources of funding available to you.
After working through the tool, do you feel like you have a better sense of:
What kinds of institutions offer the different educational pathways?
How to compare and evaluate what these different institutions offer?
How to determine if an institution would be a good fit for you and your career goals?
How to secure the funding you might need to support your studies?
It's common for your preferences to change as you keep exploring your career pathways. So, come back and use the tool again at any time!
Step 5: Explore Your Next Steps
It’s never too early to start your career journey by taking advantage of STEM and engineering opportunities in your city. Here are some of the things you can do now to get started:
Attend a camp or club. Check with local universities and organizations to see if they offer STEM or engineering camps or clubs you can attend.
Go to an event. These national engineering organizations may have regional or local student chapters in your city. Take a look at upcoming events with:
SWENext: Society for Women Engineers SWENext program is open to all students ages 5-18. You can also explore SWE Europe.
FIRST: a global non-profit provides young people with team-based robotics challenges and competitions. Find local FIRST communities in your area.
Find or start a STEM or Robotics Club in your school or community. Connect with a school administrator or teacher for more resources, events, and ideas.
Job shadow or attend a career fair. Ask your school counselor or teachers if they know of any engineering career exploration opportunities like career fairs or job shadowing opportunities.
Meet with your school counselor/advisor or teacher. Review and select appropriate courses to make sure you are eligible to apply to the institution of your choice.
Take a tour. If you have one or more institutions in mind, enquire if they have any open days or other opportunities to visit and tour the campus (either on-site or virtually).
Talk to a real engineer. Ask family or friends to help connect you or use online resource such as YouTube, Crash Course, and podcasts to learn more.
Start an application. If you have made some decisions about where you want to go after secondary school, get started on your applications!
