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Mechanical Engineers

Description
Perform engineering duties in planning and designing tools, engines, machines, and other mechanically functioning equipment. Oversee installation, operation, maintenance, and repair of such equipment as centralized heat, gas, water, and steam systems.
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Experience
A minimum of two to four years of work-related skill, knowledge, or experience is needed for these occupations. For example, an accountant must complete four years of college and work for several years in accounting to be considered qualified.

Education
Most of these occupations require a four-year bachelor's degree, but some do not.

Training
Employees in these occupations usually need several years of work-related experience, on-the-job training, and/or vocational training.

Tasks
  • Designs products and systems to meet process requirements, applying knowledge of engineering principles.
  • Specifies system components or directs modification of products to ensure conformance with engineering design and performance specifications.
  • Oversees installation to ensure machines and equipment are installed and functioning according to specifications.
  • Coordinates building, fabrication, and installation of product design and operation, maintenance, and repair activities to utilize machines and equipment.
  • Inspects, evaluates, and arranges field installations and recommends design modifications to eliminate machine or system malfunctions.
  • Investigates equipment failures and difficulties, diagnoses faulty operation, and makes recommendations to maintenance crew.
  • Alters or modifies design to obtain specified functional and operational performance.
  • Conducts experiments to test and analyze existing designs and equipment to obtain data on performance of product, and prepares reports.
  • Assists drafter in developing structural design of product, using drafting tools or computer-assisted design/drafting equipment and software.
  • Selects or designs tools to meet specifications, using manuals, drafting tools, computer, and specialized software programs.
  • Tests ability of machines to perform tasks.
  • Develops models of alternate processing methods to test feasibility or new applications of system components, and recommends implementation of procedures.
  • Confers with establishment personnel and engineers to implement operating procedures and resolve system malfunctions and to provide technical information.
  • Plans and directs engineering personnel in fabrication of test-control apparatus and equipment and develops procedures for testing products.
  • Researches and analyzes data, such as customer design proposal, specifications, and manuals to determine feasibility of design or application.
  • Determines parts supply, maintenance tasks, safety procedures, and service schedule required to maintain machines and equipment in prescribed condition.
  • Studies industrial processes to determine where and how application of equipment can be made.
National Average Salary
$63,530.00/year

Average Salary in Maryland
$65,570.00/year

Important Abilities
   1. Deductive Reasoning
   2. Mathematical Reasoning
   3. Number Facility
   4. Written Comprehension
   5. Visualization

General Work Activities
   1. Getting Information Needed to Do the Job
   2. Drafting & Specifying Technical Devices, etc.
   3. Thinking Creatively
   4. Analyzing Data or Information
   5. Updating & Using Job-Relevant Knowledge

Important Skills
   1. Mathematics
   2. Technology Design
   3. Science
   4. Active Learning
   5. Operations Analysis

Frequent Work Context
   1. Consequence of Error
   2. Job-Required Social Interaction
   3. Degree of Automation
   4. Importance of Being Exact or Accurate
   5. Importance of Being Sure All Is Done

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