Profession fluid power engineer

Fluid power engineers supervise the assembly, installation, maintenance, and testing of fluid power equipment in accordance with specified manufacturing processes. They create designs with schematics and assembly models, make drawings and bills of materials for components, and analyse equipment.

Personality Type

• Investigative / Realistic
• Realistic / Investigative

Knowledge

• Hydraulic fluid

  The various types, qualities and applications of hydraulic fluids used in metalworking processes such as forging and moulding, consisting out of mineral oils and water.

• Engineering principles

  The engineering elements like functionality, replicability, and costs in relation to the design and how they are applied in the completion of engineering projects.

• Fluid mechanics

  The characteristics and properties of fluids, including gases, liquids and plasmas, at rest and in motion, and the forces on them.

• Hydraulics

  The power transmission systems that use the force of flowing liquids to transmit power.

• Engineering processes

  The systematic approach to the development and maintenance of engineering systems.

• Principles of mechanical engineering

  Understand principles of mechanical engineering, physics, and materials science.

• Mechanical engineering

  Discipline that applies principles of physics, engineering and materials science to design, analyse, manufacture and maintain mechanical systems.

• Mechanics

  Theoretical and practical applications of the science studying the action of displacements and forces on physical bodies to the development of machinery and mechanical devices.

• Mathematics

  Mathematics is the study of topics such as quantity, structure, space, and change. It involves the identification of patterns and formulating new conjectures based on them. Mathematicians strive to prove the truth or falsity of these conjectures. There are many fields of mathematics, some of which are widely used for practical applications.

• Technical drawings

  Drawing software and the various symbols, perspectives, units of measurement, notation systems, visual styles and page layouts used in technical drawings.

• CAD software

  The computer-aided design (CAD) software for creating, modifying, analysing or optimising a design.

Skills

• Adjust engineering designs

  Adjust designs of products or parts of products so that they meet requirements.

• Perform scientific research

  Gain, correct or improve knowledge about phenomena by using scientific methods and techniques, based on empirical or measurable observations.

• Approve engineering design

  Give consent to the finished engineering design to go over to the actual manufacturing and assembly of the product.

• Read engineering drawings

  Read the technical drawings of a product made by the engineer in order to suggest improvements, make models of the product or operate it.

• Use technical drawing software

  Create technical designs and technical drawings using specialised software.

• Use a computer

  Utilise computer equipment or digital devices to facilitate quality control, data management, and communication. Follow instructions given by a computer programme, create computer files or documents.

• Use computer-aided engineering systems

  Use computer-aided engineering software to conduct stress analyses on engineering designs.

• Use CAD software

  Use computer-aided design (CAD) systems to assist in the creation, modification, analysis, or optimisation of a design.

• Execute feasibility study

  Perform the evaluation and assessment of the potential of a project, plan, proposition or new idea. Realise a standardised study which is based on extensive investigation and research to support the process of decision making.

• Troubleshoot

  Identify operating problems, decide what to do about it and report accordingly.

• Provide technical documentation

  Prepare documentation for existing and upcoming products or services, describing their functionality and composition in such a way that it is understandable for a wide audience without technical background and compliant with defined requirements and standards. Keep documentation up to date.

Optional knowledge and skills

Source: Sisyphus ODB