Engineering Levels
Engineering Levels
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What is the difference between all Engineering levels?
Like Engineer I, Engineer II, Engineer III, Engineer IV?
Someone told me I need to have a paper certification to be considered any of these. So does that mean there are tests to be passed for these qualifications?
Any info you people would have would be great help to me, Thank You
Like Engineer I, Engineer II, Engineer III, Engineer IV?
Someone told me I need to have a paper certification to be considered any of these. So does that mean there are tests to be passed for these qualifications?
Any info you people would have would be great help to me, Thank You





RE: Engineering Levels
If you have paper "certification" to meet Engineer IV, then obviously you can meet I, II, and III as they are progressive, career path classifications.
RE: Engineering Levels
Here's a link to the Australian definitions, as you can see they talk far more about experience and roles than quals.
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From my xp it has been mostly about salary. Most of the time I do not even know what my classification is. It is only stated in formal memos telling me a got a raise etc.
I have never had one officially listed in my title. My last job was as a design engineer III. Didn't know about the III until I got a raise the following year and saw it in the memo.
Now I am a senior engineer. Not sure if it is a I , II, or III. From my salary and level of xp in the field I am sure it is a I.
Funny, at my current job I did see an official memo from HR, and they not only did not have I II or III, but a totally different title altogether ;)
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The classifications don't mean much except in public jobs or in large companies. I have typically been in positions where there were titles, as opposed to classifications, although somewhat related (Staff Engineer, Project Engineer, Senior Engineer, Principal Engineer, Chief Engineer, Senior Principal Engineer, etc.).
If there were parity in titles, they might mean something, but from my experience, companies throw around titles on a whim, without much structure. In a very large company that I was with for many years, the titles were guarded by company policy and they had to be earned. In another, smaller company, their initial approach was to designate people just by what everyone thought they should be called...I was able to convince them that a title structure should be instituted that gave some incentive and some stature to the titles.
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I'm apprarantly something like CAD Engineer IV. However when you compare the official description to what I do, there's almost no similarity.
Important thing is I get paid like a 'CAD Engineer IV'
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I have also seen Fellow Engineer and Sr. Fellow Engineer in some companies. These have usually been someone who came up with an ingenious patentable product or method to save the company big$ in manufacturing costs.
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