For those engineering students about to graduate,
have you ever wondered what type of Engineers are there and which role suits
you the most and you want to apply once you enter the working world?
Here are some examples that comes in mind.
(*This might apply to civil engineering, electrical
& mechanical, not sure about chemical, computer, IT, aerospace engineering
etc.)
To make it general and easier to understand, let’s
take an example of a project of 'Building a house.'
*p/s: This should be read with a pinch of salt.😼
*p/s: This should be read with a pinch of salt.😼
What
your Job title is
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What you
actually are
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Project
Engineer
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He/She/Apache
Helicopter will,
1.
Monitor the project schedule,
when the house is going to be build, when the item
to build the house should arrive,
2.
Chase design engineers for design/drawings to submit to customers,
3.
Entertain customers when they
come for meetings,
Record minutes of meeting of the said meeting, Order food for that particular meeting.
4.
Keep track on the financial
aspect of the project – if customer pays RM100K for the house, best to make the
cost of building the house way lesser, better if can squish more money from
customer for variation orders, means if the customer wants to add more
windows, charge more!
Heck if they want to add another screws, charge more!!
Basically
you MANAGE stuffs.
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QA/QC
Engineer
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He/She/Apache
Helicopter will,
1.
Check on item needed to build
a house,
eg. check if the door knobs working, the plug points OK, if they’re not, send back to customer for replacement/refund etc.
2.
Also check on what other people
is doing. Check whether the brick man’s laying enough brick, the wiremen wire
stuff correctly and the measurement of the house is correct according to
drawing, and if they’re not right, ask them to do it correctly.
3.
If all of these quality are
not satisfactory, conduct a comprehensive meeting asking why they are not
meeting the quality standard, and dig deep until everyone admit their
mistake.
4.
Do yearly audit.
Basically
HATED by many.
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Design
Engineer
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He/She/Apache
Helicopter will,
1.
Design (or rather draw - not
much of designing new stuffs, most of the time copying previos project’s
design/drawings) of the house layout, house foundation, house wiring and
other drawings.
2.
If the house design is new,
they should study new solutions and come out with new design.
Should know product specs and all the international/local regulations and design standards.
3.
Prepare list of material
needed to buy the house, how many kilos of cement, how many tonnes of brick,
how much tiles, lighting equipment, to, cosmetics stuffs like house furniture,
paint for the whole house, to spare stuffs, spare fans, spare air-cond, spare
awnings etc.
If they overbuy or wrongly bought and item, QC will audit the hell out of them. PM will make noise of how they mess with the project’s budget.
4.
Although they design the built
of the house, they might not know how to repair/service the house themselves.
Unless they’ve been to training.
Perfect
in Excel skills, and other softwares, because, they sit in front of the
computer like 70% of their time.
Basically
a glorified draughter, Also the scapegoat.
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Service
Engineer
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He/She/Apache
Helicopter will,
1.
Service a house that already
been occupied if there are problems, or needing to install new equipment or upgrade all equipment.
2.
THE person who do hands on
and servicing on the item that designed by design engineer, checked by the QCs
and managed by the PM.
3.
Knows all the technical thing
about the house way better than the engineers who design it.
Basically
the MAIN man, if there’s a miscalculation somewhere, they die first.
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Testing
Engineer
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He/She/Apache
Helicopter will,
1.
Do testing after the house is
built, whether the lights working, the faucets functioning, doors not
squeaking, toilet bowl’s flushing etc, before testing it again with customer
and ready to live in.
2.
Might have same level of
knowledge as service engineer, since they do hands on.
3.
But didn’t involve in
repairing the house, after they are completed.
Basically
testers (internal). Risk of dying not as high as the service engineer.
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Product
Engineer
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He/She/Apache
Helicopter will,
1.
Have a detail knowledge about
a specific product. Eg. Product engineer for toilet stuffs will know detail
spec on wash basin, bath tub, shower head, toilet bowl etc.
2.
Do marketing for all these
products, training to customers, new product launch, etc.
3.
Answer customer queries on
those products.
4.
Develop product catalogs
5.
Carry those heavy catalogs
to marketing events.
Basically
a Cuckoo/Coway/Avon promoter.
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Sales
Engineer
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He/She/Apache
Helicopter will,
1.
Sell windows, doors, toilet
bowls, kitchen cabinet, whatever stuffs that makes a house.
2.
Persuade(force/blackmail)
clients to build their house with you.
3.
Know some technical specs of the
products just enough to sell them.
4.
Have great negotiation
skills.
5. $$$$$ oriented 6. Probably also the MAIN man, because if he didn't get a job, everybody else won't have a job.
Basically
a Car salesmen, a prince charming and TALKS A LOT.
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Draughter
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He/She/Apache
Helicopter will,
1.
Help engineers draw stuffs.
2.
Have mad AutoCAD skills, can
finish a drawing 3 times faster than engineers.
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Interns
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He/She/Apache
Helicopter will,
1.
Print stuffs
2.
Google stuffs
3.
Make a report of how they
print stuffs and google stuffs.
Basically
office boy/girl.
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Engineering
Students
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Basically
babies.
NOT
AN ENGINEER IN ANY WAY OR FORM.
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