Texas Instruments Career Ideas for Kids
Fortune Magazine gives Texas Instruments the number-two spot on the 2011 "World's Most Admired Companies" list. This company began as a geophysical exploration company in 1930, and now is one of the largest manufacturers of semiconductors. Texas Instruments employs people throughout the country. Children interested in working for Texas Instruments have a number of choices from various departments including Engineering, Sales and Marketing and Manufacturing.
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Manufacturing
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Texas Instruments has the opportunity for people to learn and explore the semiconductor, digital and analog industries. Some manufacturing positions ensure the safety of products, train other members to operate equipment and help team members resolve manufacturing problems that can arise. In addition, the person in this position will juggle a lot of projects from establishing manufacturing guidelines to offering solutions to solve a technical issue with a product.
A business planner is another position that works within the manufacturing division of Texas Instruments. This type of position provides support for customers. Some planners monitor and track a customer's order, research vendors to supply parts for a product and evaluate potential factories to make a product. People with a background in supply chain management, business and industrial engineering or equivalent experience work well as business manufacturing planners.
Engineering
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This company offers a variety of engineering opportunities. Some software systems engineers help develop and design real-time trace and debug software. People who have the ability to solve complicated issues and think analytically work well in this position. People in this position work with hardware and software applications and must demonstrate comfort in both areas.
Texas Instruments employs numerous types of designers who are members of the engineering department. Some design engineers create and develop plans and components. Designers help with the creation of products, make a prototype of a product, and assure the manufacturing division makes the production according to its plans. People who have backgrounds in electrical and computer engineering work well in this area.
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Sales and Marketing
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Texas Instruments has a variety of jobs that require people to sell the company's products. A sales representative finds and researches potential companies that can benefit from Texas Instruments products such as a school district that needs calculators for their students. Representatives help the company increase their sales by bringing the company new customers. Sales require a lot of face-to-face meetings with potential and current customers.
Another type of position within the Sales and Marketing division of Texas Instruments is a strategic marketing engineer. Some strategic marketing engineers create marketing plans, develop product manuals, research and evaluate the area the company wants to market its products and forecast trends in their industry. People in this area interact with a host of people, including engineers, sales members and customers.
Other Departments
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Texas Instruments offers opportunities in the legal department. Some legal members review and write agreements between the company and other outside companies such as vendors, suppliers and manufacturers, while other members of the legal department represent the company in corporate legal disputes. Facility services offer a variety of positions that deal with maintaining the numerous office buildings throughout the country. For example, security guards work under facility services. In addition, this division of Texas Instruments is responsible in finding and reviewing new office space.
The company has also an Application Engineering Program for recent college graduates. It gives graduates the chance to apply what they learned in college to actual working situations. Participants in this program get to try different job positions. College graduates can learn, for instance, the way the company develops a product from the beginning to end. Also, graduates learn to operate the actual software and hardware systems.
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