Profession manufacturing engineer

Manufacturing engineers design manufacturing processes for different kinds of production processes. They integrate those specificities and constraints posed by the industry or the product being produced with general and wide-spread manufacturing engineering principles into the design and planification of manufacturing processes.

Personality Type

• Investigative / Realistic

Knowledge

• Manufacturing processes

  The steps required through which a material is transformed into a product, its development and full-scale manufacturing.

• Production processes

  Materials and techniques required in the production and distribution processes.

• Technical drawings

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

• Consumer protection

  The current legislation applicable in relation to the rights of consumers in the marketplace.

• 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.

• Industrial engineering

  The field of engineering concerned with the development, improvement, and implementation of complex processes and systems of knowledge, people, equipment, etc.

• Engineering processes

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

Skills

• Ensure material compliance

  Ensure that the materials provided by suppliers comply with the specified requirements.

• Assess financial viability

  Revise and analyse financial information and requirements of projects such as their budget appraisal, expected turnover, and risk assessment for determining the benefits and costs of the project. Assess if the agreement or project will redeem its investment, and whether the potential profit is worth the financial risk.

• Adjust engineering designs

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

• Use technical drawing software

  Create technical designs and technical drawings using specialised software.

• 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.

• Advise on manufacturing problems

  Advise the visited industrial plants on how to better oversee production to ensure that the manufacturing problems are correctly diagnosed and solved.

• Ensure health and safety in manufacturing

  Ensure health and safety of personnel during manufacturing process.

Optional knowledge and skills

Source: Sisyphus ODB