Senior Engineer Job Description
Senior engineer
provides guidance and coaching to lower level manufacturing engineers to build competencies on more advanced manufacturing processes and to resolve issues on processes.
Senior Engineer Duties & Responsibilities
To write an effective senior engineer job description, begin by listing detailed duties, responsibilities and expectations. We have included senior engineer job description templates that you can modify and use.
Sample responsibilities for this position include:
Must learn lean principles and apply to products and processes
Ensure mistake proofing is designed into product and processes
Ensure all processes produce quality by engineering quality into the process, not inspected in
Work through source council to obtain approval for sourcing projects
Collaborate with Global Purchasing to engage supplier and to purchase Engineering services and Development Components
Design, Detail, and Release engineering changes associated with CPI, Warranty Reduction, and Manufacturing Process improvements using DCC, and EDS
Lead cost reduction projects in design control
Defines the common implementation of application features across Machine and Commercial Engine Systems
Meet with internal business & operations stakeholders to identify integration gaps
Act as Product Owner along with driving technical vision for the team
Senior Engineer Qualifications
Qualifications for a job description may include education, certification, and experience.
Licensing or Certifications for Senior Engineer
List any licenses or certifications required by the position: DB, UL, SBE, NTIA, FCC, GB, IEC, ISO, DO-254, AWS
Education for Senior Engineer
Typically a job would require a certain level of education.
Employers hiring for the senior engineer job most commonly would prefer for their future employee to have a relevant degree such as Bachelor's and Master's Degree in Engineering, Computer Science, Science, Electrical Engineering, Mechanical Engineering, Education, Computer Engineering, Electronics, Technical, Engineering and Technology
Skills for Senior Engineer
Desired skills for senior engineer include:
FMEA
Manufacturing processes
Python
Linux
Spring
C#
Networking
Processes
Statistics
Java
Desired experience for senior engineer includes:
Minimum 5 years of On Highway Truck development or manufacturing engineering experience
Relevant work experience required in product design and development, Teamcenter, and new product introduction (NPI/APQP)
BS Computer Science/Engineering or equivalent years of work experience
Working with Perforce or Git is highly desired
Skilled in working with RPMs - building, patching etc
Good understanding working with Make, Scons and Maven
Senior Engineer Examples
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Senior Engineer Job Description
Job Description Example
Our growing company is looking to fill the role of senior engineer. Thank you in advance for taking a look at the list of responsibilities and qualifications. We look forward to reviewing your resume.
Responsibilities for senior engineer
- Participates in the technical design
- Prepares and maintains technical user guides
- CONUS and OCONUS travel, as required
- Plans, directs, and coordinates activities of designated contracts to ensure goals or objectives of contracts are accomplished within prescribed time frame and funding parameters by performing duties personally or through subordinate Project Managers and Task Order Leads
- Developing tests and test programs using a variety of analytical equipment
- Conducting design reviews on components and products
- Architect, design, and develop high quality scalable software
- Maintain, support and enhance existing software
- Work collaboratively to solve complex software problems
- Advice and assist other developers
Qualifications for senior engineer
- Experience with mobile platforms (iOS, Android)
- Passion for video games and video game industry experience a strong plus
- Passion for technologies and strong desire to learn about new technologies
- Bachelor's degree in Mechanical/Biomedical Engineering or a related discipline with 10 years' experience
- Minimum of 8 years of experience in a medical device or equivalent regulated environment
- Proven track record of successfully delivering projects
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Senior Engineer Job Description
Job Description Example
Our company is hiring for a senior engineer. We appreciate you taking the time to review the list of qualifications and to apply for the position. If you don’t fill all of the qualifications, you may still be considered depending on your level of experience.
Responsibilities for senior engineer
- Provide assistance to Project Management Group to support implementation of projects, as required
- Prepare data repositories as mentioned in SOW paragraphs 4.1 – 4.8 which is accessible by both the Government and Contractor for collaboration
- Actively lead a design team in the delivery of all design and construction works, scheme and projects
- Manage costs associated with projects and works such that budgets and budgeted cost for work are fully met throughout the design, pricing and delivery of projects
- Liaise proactively with the client to ensure they are kept up to date with scheme progress and any issues
- Good management skills and capability
- The ability to anticipate problems and develop solutions from an understanding of the concepts and principles involved
- Experience in managing integrated project teams of varied size and capabilities
- Liaise with internal and external stakeholders to ensure objectives are achieved
- Ensure that all designs and solutions are fully compliant with company health, safety and environmental requirements and policy
Qualifications for senior engineer
- Prior experience as an architect is a plus
- Prefer Kernel level programming and debugging experience
- Five years experience with object-oriented design, coding and testing patterns experience in engineering open source software platforms and large-scale data infrastructures
- Eight to Twelve (8 - 12) years of related professional experience within Information Technology and/or Information Security or equivalent combination of education and work experience
- Ideal candidate will have comprehensive knowledge of Windows and UNIX-based system administration
- Good candidates should have experience with network security systems
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Job Description Example
Our innovative and growing company is looking for a senior engineer. Please review the list of responsibilities and qualifications. While this is our ideal list, we will consider candidates that do not necessarily have all of the qualifications, but have sufficient experience and talent.
Responsibilities for senior engineer
- Plan and Monitor adequate resources for product engineering to ensure effectiveness and achievement of project related targets
- Plan, Coordinate and monitor the execution of project work packages
- Specification and tracking of supplier work packages
- Is responsible and manage the Project related product engineering based on the requirement, deliverables and actual perceptions in line with pre-settings
- Report in regularly intervals the status of the project
- Promote and utilise lessons learned / best practice within product engineering
- Prepare and execute phase reviews according to timing and deliverables targets for product engineering
- Prepare and participate gate reviews according to timing and deliverables targets
- Demonstrations of System Features to customers and senior management
- Design test plan, conduct firmware validation on OEM systems, perform failure analysis, review test results and generate test reports
Qualifications for senior engineer
- Experience with Microsoft Office, including Word, Excel, Visio and PowerPoint, Jira (or other bug databases), Confluence, Visual Studios and other software development and source control tools
- Experience utilizing development and data analysis tools
- Experience in developing and documenting capture strategies and executing capture plans
- Providing technical and programmatic support to Government program managers related to DOD investments in Science and Technology (S&T) in their technical discipline
- Reviewing technical materials, program reviews, and proposals and provide recommendations to the Program Manager regarding technical viability, programmatic feasibility, affordability, and operational relevance
- Preparing high-quality white papers, program reviews, market surveys, point papers, and briefings for technical or executive level audiences
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Job Description Example
Our company is growing rapidly and is hiring for a senior engineer. If you are looking for an exciting place to work, please take a look at the list of qualifications below.
Responsibilities for senior engineer
- Representing TMT through involvement with professional organizations and presentations to international conferences
- Create and Modify Autosys (batch job scheduler) definitions
- Oversees the design or develops engineering drawings including plans and specifications based on calculations
- Assist with the delivery of project requirements as they relate to scope, cost and schedule
- Produce and check client proposals
- Design innovative solutions that meet the business requirements
- Plan and report on status of assigned work
- Analyze user requirements/stories and problems to develop technical architecture for new and existing platforms, and providing architectural guidance and oversight
- Work with other senior level engineers, architects and platform owner to set GSNT’s platforms technical direction and strategic objectives
- Conduct hands-on research and complex investigations across complex delivery efforts
Qualifications for senior engineer
- Familiar with Eclipse Common - Understanding of other compiled languages
- Experience using sound & media APIs Using version control
- 5+ years of significant engineering and/or operational experience
- 2+ years of a technical background in health care, nutritional products, laboratory diagnostics, medical devices, pharmaceutical, or similar industries (preferred)
- 3+ years of Automation/Inspection system and equipment software programming knowledge (preferred)
- 3+ years of Equipment or Software qualification knowledge (highly preferred)
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Senior Engineer Job Description
Job Description Example
Our company is growing rapidly and is searching for experienced candidates for the position of senior engineer. Please review the list of responsibilities and qualifications. While this is our ideal list, we will consider candidates that do not necessarily have all of the qualifications, but have sufficient experience and talent.
Responsibilities for senior engineer
- Develop best practices in machining processes of composite material
- Prepares and presents plans for improving manufacturing processes
- Utilizes Lean Manufacturing methodologies, SPC, and other best in class techniques to optimize equipment, processes, facilities, and operator technical ability
- Participates in overall systems integration testing
- Develops original and complex solutions or provides technical guidance to less experienced staff
- Lead the technical aspects of CPG (Consumer Product Goods) for filtration, produce preservation and/or affresh cleaners for launches
- Execute the technical requirements for a project including DFMEAs, Drawing Release, Safety Audits, DVP&Rs
- Work on a cross functional team with the Category Manager, Procurement, Project Manager, Legal and Suppliers to launch products
- Lead the architecture and implementation of networked features, at an MMO scale
- Work closesly with internal engineers or external partners developing the games‘ back-end and services
Qualifications for senior engineer
- Knowledge of general avionics aspects (Standards, Process, Product knowledge)
- Ability to collaborate in a fast-changing environment and to communicate clearly and effectively with colleagues who range from senior data scientists to operations engineers to account managers
- Solid grasp of statistical fundamentals
- A minimum of 3 years’ experience as a software engineer in a commercial software development environment, 5 years experience without a computer science degree
- Experience in big data processing toolsets and systems, Hadoop, Spark, , preferably using Hive, SparkSQL and/or Pig in particular
- Solid experience in relational databases and queries, in particular experience with PostgreSQL is a plus