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Summary Job Description | Tasks | |||
Plan, direct, or coordinate activities in such fields as architecture and engineering or research and development in these fields. | Confer with management, production, and marketing staff to discuss project specifications and procedures. | |||
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Coordinate and direct projects, making detailed plans to accomplish goals and directing the integration of technical activities. | ||||
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Analyze technology, resource needs, and market demand, to plan and assess the feasibility of projects. | ||||
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Plan and direct the installation, testing, operation, maintenance, and repair of facilities and equipment. | ||||
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Direct, review, and approve product design and changes. | ||||
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Recruit employees, assign, direct, and evaluate their work, and oversee the development and maintenance of staff competence. | ||||
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Prepare budgets, bids, and contracts, and direct the negotiation of research contracts. | ||||
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Develop and implement policies, standards and procedures for the engineering and technical work performed in the department, service, laboratory or firm. | ||||
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Perform administrative functions such as reviewing and writing reports, approving expenditures, enforcing rules, and making decisions about the purchase of materials or services. | ||||
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Review and recommend or approve contracts and cost estimates. | ||||
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Present and explain proposals, reports, and findings to clients. | ||||
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Consult or negotiate with clients to prepare project specifications. | ||||
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Set scientific and technical goals within broad outlines provided by top management. | ||||
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Administer highway planning, construction, and maintenance. | ||||
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Direct the engineering of water control, treatment, and distribution projects. | ||||
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Plan, direct, and coordinate survey work with other staff activities, certifying survey work, and writing land legal descriptions. | ||||
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Confer with and report to officials and the public to provide information and solicit support for projects. | ||||
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CompGeo Salary Survey Benchmark Job Summary and Competencies
Engineering/Mathematical/Natural Sciences Manager
The Benchmark Job Description below represents the specific Position Characteristics of the job used in the Salary Survey. Benchmark Job Descriptions should be inspected carefully to review the degree of matching between an organizations' Job and the Salary Survey Benchmark. Matching internal Jobs to Salary Survey Benchmark Jobs should not be done on Job Title alone. A thorough comparison of Salary Survey Benchmark to Internal Job Descriptions is recommended. A good overlap should exist on any comparisons used on critical Job Dimensions and Competencies.- Job Description
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Important Knowledge Competencies | Competency Description | |||
Engineering and Technology | Knowledge of the practical application of engineering science and technology. This includes applying principles, techniques, procedures, and equipment to the design and production of various goods and services. | |||
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Design | Knowledge of design techniques, tools, and principles involved in production of precision technical plans, blueprints, drawings, and models. | |||
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Mathematics | Knowledge of arithmetic, algebra, geometry, calculus, statistics, and their applications. | |||
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English Language | Knowledge of the structure and content of the English language including the meaning and spelling of words, rules of composition, and grammar. | |||
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Computers and Electronics | Knowledge of circuit boards, processors, chips, electronic equipment, and computer hardware and software, including applications and programming. | |||
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Administration and Management | Knowledge of business and management principles involved in strategic planning, resource allocation, human resources modeling, leadership technique, production methods, and coordination of people and resources. | |||
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Physics | Knowledge and prediction of physical principles, laws, their interrelationships, and applications to understanding fluid, material, and atmospheric dynamics, and mechanical, electrical, atomic and sub- atomic structures and processes. | |||
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Customer and Personal Service | Knowledge of principles and processes for providing customer and personal services. This includes customer needs assessment, meeting quality standards for services, and evaluation of customer satisfaction. | |||
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Production and Processing | Knowledge of raw materials, production processes, quality control, costs, and other techniques for maximizing the effective manufacture and distribution of goods. | |||
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Personnel and Human Resources | Knowledge of principles and procedures for personnel recruitment, selection, training, compensation and benefits, labor relations and negotiation, and personnel information systems. | |||
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Public Safety and Security | Knowledge of relevant equipment, policies, procedures, and strategies to promote effective local, state, or national security operations for the protection of people, data, property, and institutions. | |||
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Education and Training | Knowledge of principles and methods for curriculum and training design, teaching and instruction for individuals and groups, and the measurement of training effects. | |||
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Mechanical | Knowledge of machines and tools, including their designs, uses, repair, and maintenance. | |||
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Building and Construction | Knowledge of materials, methods, and the tools involved in the construction or repair of houses, buildings, or other structures such as highways and roads. | |||
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Law and Government | Knowledge of laws, legal codes, court procedures, precedents, government regulations, executive orders, agency rules, and the democratic political process. | |||
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Sales and Marketing | Knowledge of principles and methods for showing, promoting, and selling products or services. This includes marketing strategy and tactics, product demonstration, sales techniques, and sales control systems. | |||
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Economics and Accounting | Knowledge of economic and accounting principles and practices, the financial markets, banking and the analysis and reporting of financial data. | |||
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Important Skill Competencies | Competency Description | |||
Reading Comprehension | Understanding written sentences and paragraphs in work related documents. | |||
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Active Listening | Giving full attention to what other people are saying, taking time to understand the points being made, asking questions as appropriate, and not interrupting at inappropriate times. | |||
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Speaking | Talking to others to convey information effectively. | |||
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Writing | Communicating effectively in writing as appropriate for the needs of the audience. | |||
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Critical Thinking | Using logic and reasoning to identify the strengths and weaknesses of alternative solutions, conclusions or approaches to problems. | |||
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Monitoring | Monitoring/Assessing performance of yourself, other individuals, or organizations to make improvements or take corrective action. | |||
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Coordination | Adjusting actions in relation to others' actions. | |||
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Complex Problem Solving | Identifying complex problems and reviewing related information to develop and evaluate options and implement solutions. | |||
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Operations Analysis | Analyzing needs and product requirements to create a design. | |||
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Judgment and Decision Making | Considering the relative costs and benefits of potential actions to choose the most appropriate one. | |||
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Time Management | Managing one's own time and the time of others. | |||
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Management of Personnel Resources | Motivating, developing, and directing people as they work, identifying the best people for the job. | |||
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Social Perceptiveness | Being aware of others' reactions and understanding why they react as they do. | |||
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Mathematics | Using mathematics to solve problems. | |||
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Negotiation | Bringing others together and trying to reconcile differences. | |||
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Systems Analysis | Determining how a system should work and how changes in conditions, operations, and the environment will affect outcomes. | |||
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Systems Evaluation | Identifying measures or indicators of system performance and the actions needed to improve or correct performance, relative to the goals of the system. | |||
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Active Learning | Understanding the implications of new information for both current and future problem-solving and decision-making. | |||
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Instructing | Teaching others how to do something. | |||
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Persuasion | Persuading others to change their minds or behavior. | |||
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Management of Financial Resources | Determining how money will be spent to get the work done, and accounting for these expenditures. | |||
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Management of Material Resources | Obtaining and seeing to the appropriate use of equipment, facilities, and materials needed to do certain work. | |||
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Science | Using scientific rules and methods to solve problems. | |||
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Learning Strategies | Selecting and using training/instructional methods and procedures appropriate for the situation when learning or teaching new things. | |||
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Service Orientation | Actively looking for ways to help people. | |||
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Important Ability Competencies | Competency Description | |||
Oral Comprehension | The ability to listen to and understand information and ideas presented through spoken words and sentences. | |||
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Written Comprehension | The ability to read and understand information and ideas presented in writing. | |||
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Oral Expression | The ability to communicate information and ideas in speaking so others will understand. | |||
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Problem Sensitivity | The ability to tell when something is wrong or is likely to go wrong. It does not involve solving the problem, only recognizing there is a problem. | |||
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Deductive Reasoning | The ability to apply general rules to specific problems to produce answers that make sense. | |||
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Written Expression | The ability to communicate information and ideas in writing so others will understand. | |||
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Speech Clarity | The ability to speak clearly so others can understand you. | |||
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Inductive Reasoning | The ability to combine pieces of information to form general rules or conclusions (includes finding a relationship among seemingly unrelated events). | |||
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Mathematical Reasoning | The ability to choose the right mathematical methods or formulas to solve a problem. | |||
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Near Vision | The ability to see details at close range (within a few feet of the observer). | |||
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Information Ordering | The ability to arrange things or actions in a certain order or pattern according to a specific rule or set of rules (e.g., patterns of numbers, letters, words, pictures, mathematical operations). | |||
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Speech Recognition | The ability to identify and understand the speech of another person. | |||
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Category Flexibility | The ability to generate or use different sets of rules for combining or grouping things in different ways. | |||
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Originality | The ability to come up with unusual or clever ideas about a given topic or situation, or to develop creative ways to solve a problem. | |||
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Number Facility | The ability to add, subtract, multiply, or divide quickly and correctly. | |||
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Fluency of Ideas | The ability to come up with a number of ideas about a topic (the number of ideas is important, not their quality, correctness, or creativity). | |||
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Visualization | The ability to imagine how something will look after it is moved around or when its parts are moved or rearranged. | |||
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Selective Attention | The ability to concentrate on a task over a period of time without being distracted. | |||
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Far Vision | The ability to see details at a distance. | |||
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Flexibility of Closure | The ability to identify or detect a known pattern (a figure, object, word, or sound) that is hidden in other distracting material. | |||
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Time Sharing | The ability to shift back and forth between two or more activities or sources of information (such as speech, sounds, touch, or other sources). | |||
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Tools/Technology Example | Product Category | |||
Adobe Systems Adobe Acrobat Pro Extended | Document management software | |||
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Adobe Systems Adobe LifeCycle ES | Document management software | |||
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Autodesk AutoCAD software | Computer aided design CAD software | |||
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Autodesk Buzzsaw | Project management software | |||
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Autodesk VIZ | Computer aided design CAD software | |||
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Computer aided design CAD software | Computer aided design CAD software | |||
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Database software | Data base user interface and query software | |||
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Drawing and drafting software | Computer aided design CAD software | |||
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ESRI ArcView | Map creation software | |||
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Geographic information system GIS software | Map creation software | |||
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HEC RAS | Analytical or scientific software | |||
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HEC-1 | Analytical or scientific software | |||
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Hewlett-Packard HP SolidDesigner | Computer aided design CAD software | |||
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Inventory management software | Inventory management software | |||
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Kronos Workforce Timekeeper | Time accounting software | |||
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LSA Visual Easy Lean | Materials requirements planning logistics and supply chain software | |||
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Made2Manage software | Enterprise resource planning ERP software | |||
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Maintenance scheduling software | Calendar and scheduling software | |||
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Microsoft Dynamics NAV | Enterprise resource planning ERP software | |||
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Microsoft Excel | Spreadsheet software | |||
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Microsoft Office software | Office suite software | |||
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Microsoft Outlook | Electronic mail software | |||
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Microsoft Project | Project management software | |||
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Microsoft Word | Word processing software | |||
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Primavera Systems software | Project management software | |||
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Pro-E CAD software | Computer aided design CAD software | |||
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Project management software | Project management software | |||
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RTA Fleet Management | Industrial control software | |||
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Realization Project Flow | Project management software | |||
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SPSS software | Analytical or scientific software | |||
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Scheduling software | Calendar and scheduling software | |||
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SolidWorks CAD software | Computer aided design CAD software | |||
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Spreadsheet software | Spreadsheet software | |||
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Structured query language SQL | Data base user interface and query software | |||
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The Gordian Group PROGEN Online | Project management software | |||
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Water surface pressure gradient WSPG software | Analytical or scientific software | |||
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Web browser software | Internet browser software | |||
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Word processing software | Word processing software | |||
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Workflow software | Content workflow software | |||
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Desktop computers | Desktop computers | |||
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Drawing tablets | Graphics tablets | |||
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Notebook computers | Notebook computers | |||
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Personal computers | Personal computers | |||
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Personal digital assistants PDA | Personal digital assistant PDAs or organizers | |||
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Scanners | Scanners | |||
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Tablet computers | Tablet computers | |||
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Prerequisite Qualification Category | Education and Experience Level | |||
Required Level of Education | Bachelor's Degree | |||
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On-Site or In-Plant Training | None | |||
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Related Work Experience | Over 4 years, up to and including 6 years | |||
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Alternate Job Title(s) | |||
Architect Manager | |||
Chief Engineer | |||
Chief Petroleum Engineer | |||
Civil Engineering Manager | |||
Director of Engineering | |||
Electrical Engineering Director | |||
Electronics Engineering Manager | |||
Engineering Design Manager | |||
Engineering Manager | |||
Engineering Research Manager | |||
Environmental Engineering Manager | |||
Facility Designer | |||
Global Engineering Manager | |||
Health Safety Manager | |||
Highway Administrative Engineer | |||
Manufacturing Chief Engineer | |||
Manufacturing Engineering Manager | |||
Mechanical Engineering Director | |||
Plant Engineer | |||
Principal Engineer | |||
Process Engineering Manager | |||
Project Coordinator | |||
Project Development Engineer | |||
Project Engineer | |||
Project Engineering Director | |||
Project Engineering Manager | |||
Project Manager | |||
Protoype Engineer Manager | |||
Research Development Manager | |||
Research Manager | |||
Safety Director | |||
Senior Engineer | |||
Supervisory Civil Engineer | |||
Transmitter Engineer-in-Charge | |||
Waterworks Chief Engineer | |||
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