Engineering Titles
Engineering Titles
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I'm a young engineer trying to sift through all the nomenclature of engineering titles. Can someone explain the difference between R&D, Product Development, Product, and Project Engineers (if there is a difference)? THanks so much in advance





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The long answer is, it often varies from company to company, and people to people.
At my company, we decide on the title we want to appear on our business cards. Some guys with 30 years experience simply use "Mechanical Engineer". Another guy with 2 years experience has "Sr. Lead Mechanical Engineer".
Titles don't really mean much.
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R&D, blue sky bookshelfed technology. A sinecure.
Product Development, a large organisation that designs and develops the next car. Hated by manufacturing. Despised by head office.
Product engineers - someone who works in PD directly responsible for some set of components or a system. A harmless drudge
Project Engineers - anyone who can be left on their own with a stapler and won't get in too much trouble.
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Outside the licensing realm, it is generally a company specific designation that will vary from company to company.
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Principal - officer in the company, able to sign and execute contracts, manages a branch, department or office, generally a registered professional engineer in charge of the operation. Appoints a project manager to a project.
Project manager - writes scope of work, negotiates contracts and manages the entire project including the budgeting, client relations, invoicing etc.
project engineer - reports directly to the project manager and is generally in charge of the technical aspects of the project
engineer - one of many who report to the project engineer and do the grunt work, also called staff engineer
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Approximately how many years of relevant working experience and qualification for each catagory of principal, project manager, project engineer and engineer?
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Principal 20+ years, corporate officer, PE
proj manager 10+ years, PE
proj engineer 5+ years, PE
engineer minimum of EIT
note that not all project engineers will become project managers as there is a limited requirement for managers and not all have the necessary management and people skills to be successful in that role
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" generally only to be used by those who are licensed. That is the law in most states of the US."
"Outside the licensing realm, it is generally a company specific designation that will vary from company to company."
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