Instrumentation program graduates are in demand and experience a high rate of job placement. New River-trained instrument technicians find careers in local industries as well as throughout Virginia, the United States and internationally. Technicians employed by American companies sometimes work overseas.
Annual earnings for entry-level technicians employed by manufacturing industries have ranged from $35,000, $55,000 and even higher. Listed below are companies and the annual salaries of new graduates who were recruited from New River's instrumentation program.
- ABB Group
- ACS Conveyor
- AdvanSix ($82,000)
- American Electric Power, Roanoke, Va. ($52,000)
- American Mine Research
- ATK (Orbital ATK)
- B'burg, C'burg VPI Water Authority
- Cascades Paper Mill
- Celanese, Narrows, Va. (Approximately $60,000 after training.)
- Coca Cola Company
- Control Automation Technologies Corp.
- Corning Corporation
- Dominion (Virginia Power), Richmond, Va. ($55,000)
- ESS Technologies
- Federal Mogul
- Grifols
- Honeywell, Richmond, Va. ($75,000 after 180 days)
- Honeywell, Moncure, N.C. ($75,000 after 180 days)
- Hampton Roads Sanitation District (HRSD)
- Hollingsworth & Vose
- InMotion
- Instrument Calibration and Technical Services
- International Paper
- JA King
- James Hardie
- Kollmorgen
- Korona Candles
- McKee Foods Corporation
- Mead Westvaco ($62,000 starting)
- Moog
- Motion Controls
- PCI (start at $27-30/hour with relocation options)
- Pepsi Bottling Group
- Phoenix Packaging
- Phillip Morris, Richmond, Va. ($43,500 entry)
- Professional Project Services
- RF Micro Devices, Greensboro, N.C. ($30,000 entry)
- RJR ($63,800)
- Smurfit-Stone
- Sterling Engineering Solutions
- Talecris
- TechLab, Inc.
- Virginia Tech Power Plant
- Volvo
- Williams Supply
- Woverine
- Xaloy
- Yokohama, Salem, Va. ($36,000)