Life As a Manufacturing Engineering Technologist
Position Description Develop tools, implement designs, or integrate machinery, equipment, or computer technologies to ensure effective manufacturing processes.
Daily Life Of a Manufacturing Engineering Technologist
- Operate complex processing equipment.
- Develop production, inventory, or quality assurance programs.
- Monitor manufacturing operations to ensure adherence to environmental policies and practices.
- Design plant layouts or production facilities.
- Develop manufacturing infrastructure to integrate or deploy new manufacturing processes.
- Train manufacturing technicians on topics such as safety, health, fire prevention, or quality.
Qualities of a Manufacturing Engineering Technologist
Critical Thinking: Using logic and reasoning to identify the strengths and weaknesses of alternative solutions, conclusions or approaches to problems.
Mathematics: Using mathematics to solve problems.
Judgment and Decision Making: Considering the relative costs and benefits of potential actions to choose the most appropriate one.
Systems Analysis: Determining how a system should work and how changes in conditions, operations, and the environment will affect outcomes.
Active Listening: Giving full attention to what other people are saying, taking time to understand the points being made, asking questions as appropriate, and not interrupting at inappropriate times.
Operation Monitoring: Watching gauges, dials, or other indicators to make sure a machine is working properly.
Other Manufacturing Engineering Technologist Job Titles
- Quality Specialist
- Manufacturing Technologist
- Manufacturing Specialist
- Business Process Analyst
- Manufacturing Planner
What Tools & Technology do Manufacturing Engineering Technologists Use?
Although they’re not necessarily needed for all jobs, the following technologies are used by many Manufacturing Engineering Technologists:
- Microsoft Excel
- Microsoft Word
- Microsoft Office
- Microsoft PowerPoint
- SAP
- Microsoft Project
- Autodesk AutoCAD
- Microsoft Visio
- Computer aided design CAD software
- National Instruments LabVIEW
- Supervisory control and data acquisition SCADA software
- Enterprise resource planning ERP software
- PTC Creo Parametric
- Computer aided manufacturing CAM software
- Rapid prototyping software
- Materials requirement planning MRP software