Full time, 8 hours a day, six days a week
A railroad engineer can operate a train for 12 hours, there is no federal restriction on how long they may work, but an engineer, conductor, or brakeman must have 10 hours rest before the start of each shift.
Being a salaried employee a Mechanical Engineer only gets paid for 8 hours of work a day, no matter how many hours he actually works. While in most cases he does only work 8 hours in a day, when schedules are slipping or other problems crop up he will be expected to work as much as necessary to resolve it as soon as possible. I have known a few engineers that worked more than 20 hours a day for a few weeks to resolve a particularly difficult issue.
Plumbers, pipelayers, pipefitters, and steamfitters often work more than 40 hours per week and can be on call for emergencies nights and weekends. Some pipelayers may need to travel to and from worksites.
It all depends on the job you take. Production engineers, like those that work for chevron will work 40 hours a week like most jobs. They will report to the office like in new Orleans or Houston. Now, on a rig it is a totally different story. They will pull atleast 12 hours a day. Most over a hundred a week. Which engineers who work offshore or on a rig get paid by the hour or by the day. So, you are making the most for the time you sink in. I'm a petroleum engineering student at LSU. A few of our professor's have told us they spent 2 days up non stop sometimes. It all depends what is going on.
Most sites will tell you a typical 40 hr week, but it really depends on the industry where you work. I'd say 40-50 hours a week normally and upwards to 72+ hours a week when you are working on projects that are close to deadlines.
About 110 hours a week that is what i work
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Most Civil Enginners work between 50 and 60 hours per week any engineer can even work 5 hours a day and still get payed either $5,000 to $10,000 dollars anyway
Regular working hours and limited travel
40 hours a week
The average is 38 hours a week
they work about 40 hours per week
Full time, 8 hours a day, six days a week
more than 60 hours a week
They work 25 to 30 hours a week
A typical work week is 40 hours. 43.5 is 3.5 hours over.