Degree Requirement
Bachelors degree in Mechanical Engineering and/or Mechanical Engineering Technology or similar is preferred.
Analytical Thinking: Knowledge of techniques and tools that promote effective analysis; ability to determine the root cause of organizational problems and create alternative solutions that resolve these problems.
Level Extensive Experience:
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Seeks discrepancies and inconsistencies in available information; explains variances.
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Organizes and prioritizes the sequence of steps to be taken to remedy the situation.
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Identifies many possible causes for a problem based on prior experience and current research.
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Quantifies the costs, benefits, risks and chances for success before recommending a course of action.
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Approaches a complex problem by breaking it down into its component parts.
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Chooses among a diverse set of analytical tools according to the nature of the situation.
Effective Communications: Understanding of effective communication concepts, tools and techniques; ability to effectively transmit, receive, and accurately interpret ideas, information, and needs through the application of appropriate communication behaviors.
Level Extensive Experience:
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Reviews others’ writing or presentations and provides feedback and coaching.
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Adapts documents and presentations for the intended audience.
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Demonstrates both empathy and assertiveness when communicating a need or defending a position.
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Communicates well downward, upward, and outward.
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Employs appropriate methods of persuasion when soliciting agreement.
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Maintains focus on the topic at hand.
Managing Multiple Priorities: Knowledge of effective self-management practices; ability to manage multiple concurrent objectives, projects, groups, or activities, making effective judgments as to prioritizing and time allocation.
Level Extensive Experience:
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Clarifies and handles multiple concurrent and diverse activities.
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Shifts focus among several efforts as required by changing priorities.
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Addresses potential conflicts that impact current delivery commitments.
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Works with or leads others to re-prioritize work and reschedule commitments as necessary.
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Responds to shifting priorities while maintaining progress of regularly scheduled work.
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Demonstrates an expectation that there will be ongoing shifts in demands and priorities.
Technical Excellence: Knowledge of a given technology and various application methods; ability to develop and provide solutions to significant technical challenges.
Level Extensive Experience:
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Advises others on the assessment and provision of all technical solutions.
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Engages appropriate subject matter resources to effectively resolve technical issues.
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Mentors others to enhance their technical competence and its application to achieve more effective technical solutions.
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Coaches others in promoting, defining, analyzing, and providing superior technical solutions to business problems.
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Provides effective solutions to moderate technical challenges through strong technical competence, effectively examining implications of events and issues.
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Assumes accountability for personal technical performance and holds others responsible for theirs.
Product Design - MFG: Knowledge of processes, approaches, tools and techniques of product design; ability to convert customer and market requirements into product design.
Product Design and Development: Knowledge of product features; ability to design, build, and develop a new product, technology, or service from concept through to production.
Level Extensive Experience:
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Develops organizational standards and processes in order to maximize complex product services’ efficiency and effectiveness.
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Creates and introduces new techniques that expedite or simplify the development process.
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Supervises the management of multiple and diverse types of products or services.
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Develops proof-of-concept exercises to prove or disprove validity of proposed products.
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Advises on the appropriate solutions to complex product design and development problems.
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Designs working prototypes of a variety of proposed products or services.