MANUFACTURING ENGINEERING TECHNOLOGIST

Job Definition:

Job Description:

• Develop tools, implement designs, or integrate machinery, equipment, or computer technologies to ensure effective manufacturing processes.

Duties and Tasks:

• 1) Develop or maintain programs associated with automated production equipment.
• 2) Verify weights, measurements, counts, or calculations and record results on batch records.
• 3) Perform routine equipment maintenance.
• 4) Monitor manufacturing operations to ensure adherence to environmental policies and practices.
• 5) Oversee equipment start-up, characterization, qualification, or release.
• 6) Develop production, inventory, or quality assurance programs.
• 7) Estimate manufacturing costs.
• 8) Identify and implement new manufacturing technologies, processes, or equipment.
• 9) Ensure adherence to safety rules and practices.10) Plan, estimate, or schedule production work.
• 11) Coordinate equipment purchases, installations, or transfers.
• 12) Select material quantities or processing methods needed to achieve efficient production.
• 13) Operate complex processing equipment.
• 14) Design plant or production layouts that minimize environmental impacts.
• 15) Train manufacturing technicians on environmental protection topics.
• 16) Develop manufacturing infrastructure to integrate or deploy new manufacturing processes.
• 17) Erect manufacturing engineering equipment.
• 18) Install and evaluate manufacturing equipment, materials, or components.
• 19) Design plant layouts or production facilities.
• 20) Prepare layouts, drawings, or sketches of machinery or equipment, such as shop tooling, scale layouts, or new equipment design, using drafting equipment or computer-aided design (CAD) software.
• 21) Create computer applications for manufacturing processes or operations, using computer-aided design (CAD) or computer-assisted manufacturing (CAM) tools.
• 22) Monitor or measure manufacturing processes to identify ways to reduce losses, decrease time requirements, or improve quality.
• 23) Identify opportunities for improvements in quality, cost, or efficiency of automation equipment.
• 24) Recommend corrective or preventive actions to assure or improve product quality or reliability.
• 25) Train manufacturing technicians on topics such as safety, health, fire prevention, or quality.
• 26) Analyze manufacturing supply chains to identify opportunities for increased efficiency in the acquisition of raw materials.
• 27) Develop processes to recover, recycle, or reuse waste or scrap materials from manufacturing operations.
• 28) Develop sustainable manufacturing technologies to reduce greenhouse gas emissions, minimize raw material use, replace toxic materials with non-toxic materials, replace non-renewable materials with renewable materials, or reduce waste.
• 29) Evaluate current or proposed manufacturing processes or practices for environmental sustainability, considering factors such as green house gas emissions, air pollution, water pollution, energy use, or waste creation.

Activities:

• 1) Making Decisions and Solving Problems — Analyzing information and evaluating results to choose the best solution and solve problems.
• 2) Getting Information — Observing, receiving, and otherwise obtaining information from all relevant sources.
• 3) Communicating with Supervisors, Peers, or Subordinates — Providing information to supervisors, co-workers, and subordinates by telephone, in written form, e-mail, or in person.
• 4) Interacting With Computers — Using computers and computer systems (including hardware and software) to program, write software, set up functions, enter data, or process information.
• 5) Drafting, Laying Out, and Specifying Technical Devices, Parts, and Equipment — Providing documentation, detailed instructions, drawings, or specifications to tell others about how devices, parts, equipment, or structures are to be fabricated, constructed, assembled, modified, maintained, or used.
• 6) Analyzing Data or Information — Identifying the underlying principles, reasons, or facts of information by breaking down information or data into separate parts.
• 7) Processing Information — Compiling, coding, categorizing, calculating, tabulating, auditing, or verifying information or data.
• 8) Thinking Creatively — Developing, designing, or creating new applications, ideas, relationships, systems, or products, including artistic contributions.
• 9) Monitor Processes, Materials, or Surroundings — Monitoring and reviewing information from materials, events, or the environment, to detect or assess problems.
• 10) Updating and Using Relevant Knowledge — Keeping up-to-date technically and applying new knowledge to your job.
• 11) Organizing, Planning, and Prioritizing Work — Developing specific goals and plans to prioritize, organize, and accomplish your work.
• 12) Inspecting Equipment, Structures, or Material — Inspecting equipment, structures, or materials to identify the cause of errors or other problems or defects.
• 13) Establishing and Maintaining Interpersonal Relationships — Developing constructive and cooperative working relationships with others, and maintaining them over time.
• 14) Documenting/Recording Information — Entering, transcribing, recording, storing, or maintaining information in written or electronic/magnetic form.
• 15) Evaluating Information to Determine Compliance with Standards — Using relevant information and individual judgment to determine whether events or processes comply with laws, regulations, or standards.
• 16) Identifying Objects, Actions, and Events — Identifying information by categorizing, estimating, recognizing differences or similarities, and detecting changes in circumstances or events.
• 17) Estimating the Quantifiable Characteristics of Products, Events, or Information — Estimating sizes, distances, and quantities; or determining time, costs, resources, or materials needed to perform a work activity.
• 18) Developing and Building Teams — Encouraging and building mutual trust, respect, and cooperation among team members.
• 19) Communicating with Persons Outside Organization — Communicating with people outside the organization, representing the organization to customers, the public, government, and other external sources. This information can be exchanged in person, in writing, or by telephone or e-mail.
• 20) Controlling Machines and Processes — Using either control mechanisms or direct physical activity to operate machines or processes (not including computers or vehicles).
• 21) Scheduling Work and Activities — Scheduling events, programs, and activities, as well as the work of others.
• 22) Training and Teaching Others — Identifying the educational needs of others, developing formal educational or training programs or classes, and teaching or instructing others.
• 23) Provide Consultation and Advice to Others — Providing guidance and expert advice to management or other groups on technical, systems-, or process-related topics.
• 24) Coordinating the Work and Activities of Others — Getting members of a group to work together to accomplish tasks.
• 25) Interpreting the Meaning of Information for Others — Translating or explaining what information means and how it can be used.
• 26) Judging the Qualities of Things, Services, or People — Assessing the value, importance, or quality of things or people.
• 27) Guiding, Directing, and Motivating Subordinates — Providing guidance and direction to subordinates, including setting performance standards and monitoring performance.
• 28) Coaching and Developing Others — Identifying the developmental needs of others and coaching, mentoring, or otherwise helping others to improve their knowledge or skills.
• 29) Monitoring and Controlling Resources — Monitoring and controlling resources and overseeing the spending of money.
• 30) Developing Objectives and Strategies — Establishing long-range objectives and specifying the strategies and actions to achieve them.
• 31) Performing Administrative Activities — Performing day-to-day administrative tasks such as maintaining information files and processing paperwork.
• 32) Resolving Conflicts and Negotiating with Others — Handling complaints, settling disputes, and resolving grievances and conflicts, or otherwise negotiating with others.

Abilities:

• 1) Mathematical Reasoning — The ability to choose the right mathematical methods or formulas to solve a problem.
• 2) 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.3) Deductive Reasoning — The ability to apply general rules to specific problems to produce answers that make sense.
• 4) Inductive Reasoning — The ability to combine pieces of information to form general rules or conclusions (includes finding a relationship among seemingly unrelated events).
• 5) 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).
• 6) Near Vision — The ability to see details at close range (within a few feet of the observer).
• 7) Oral Comprehension — The ability to listen to and understand information and ideas presented through spoken words and sentences.
• 8) Written Comprehension — The ability to read and understand information and ideas presented in writing.
• 9) Oral Expression — The ability to communicate information and ideas in speaking so others will understand.
• 10) Speech Recognition — The ability to identify and understand the speech of another person.11) Number Facility — The ability to add, subtract, multiply, or divide quickly and correctly.
• 12) 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.
• 13) 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).
• 14) Perceptual Speed — The ability to quickly and accurately compare similarities and differences among sets of letters, numbers, objects, pictures, or patterns. The things to be compared may be presented at the same time or one after the other. This ability also includes comparing a presented object with a remembered object.
• 15) Visualization — The ability to imagine how something will look after it is moved around or when its parts are moved or rearranged.
• 16) Selective Attention — The ability to concentrate on a task over a period of time without being distracted.
• 17) Category Flexibility — The ability to generate or use different sets of rules for combining or grouping things in different ways.
• 18) Written Expression — The ability to communicate information and ideas in writing so others will understand.
• 19) Far Vision — The ability to see details at a distance.
• 20) Speech Clarity — The ability to speak clearly so others can understand you.
• 21) 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.

Knowledge

• 1) 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.
• 2) Mechanical — Knowledge of machines and tools, including their designs, uses, repair, and maintenance.3) Mathematics — Knowledge of arithmetic, algebra, geometry, calculus, statistics, and their applications.
• 4) Design — Knowledge of design techniques, tools, and principles involved in production of precision technical plans, blueprints, drawings, and models.
• 5) Production and Processing — Knowledge of raw materials, production processes, quality control, costs, and other techniques for maximizing the effective manufacture and distribution of goods.
• 6) 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.
• 7) Computers and Electronics — Knowledge of circuit boards, processors, chips, electronic equipment, and computer hardware and software, including applications and programming.
• 8) English Language — Knowledge of the structure and content of the English language including the meaning and spelling of words, rules of composition, and grammar
• 9) 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.