Engineering Manager (General)

Career Area: Engineering

Occupation Group: Engineering Managers

Salary

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A typical Engineering Manager (General) earns the following wages (national and state):

State

The average salary in North Carolina for those pursuing this career is $104,253

National

The average salary in the United States for those pursuing this career is $107,963

What Does a Professional in this Career Do?

Oversees engineering and technical design of large projects, and manages communication and coordination among different types of engineers working on a project. Supervises project schedule, budget, and communications with stakeholders.

Employment Trends

The job demand and job growth statistics shown here were derived from job posts over the past year. Expected job growth projections are extrapolated from year-over-year job post listing history.

Job demand and job growth is expected at the following rates:

Skills

A professional in this position typically utilizes the following skills in the course of everyday work in this exciting and challenging field:

Baseline Skills

The following are baseline skills every Engineering Manager (General) is expected to have in order to experience success in this field:

• Communication Skills: The ability to convey information to another effectively and efficiently.
• Teamwork / Collaboration: Experience working in collaborative efforts with a team to achieve a common goal or to complete a task in the most effective and efficient way.
• Planning: Working experience with the process of thinking about and organizing the activities required to achieve desired goals.
• Problem Solving: Problem solving consists of using generic or ad hoc methods, in an orderly manner, for finding solutions to problems.
• Mentoring: Employee training system under which a senior or more experienced individual (the mentor) is assigned to act as an advisor, counselor, or guide to a junior or trainee.

Specialized Skills

These skills are specific to working in this career:

• Engineering Management: Experience organizing, administering, and planning the operational performance of complex engineering driven enterprises.
• Budgeting: Experience planning how the financial resources of a business or department are to be allocated during the next business period.
• Project Management: Project management is the discipline of initiating, planning, executing, controlling, and closing the work of a team to achieve specific goals and meet specific success criteria.
• Scheduling: Working experience making schedules, which are basic time-management tools, consisting of a list of times at which possible tasks, events, or actions are intended to take place withing an organization.
• Software Engineering: Working experience with the application of engineering to the development of software in a systematic method.

Distinguishing Skills

Any Engineering Manager (General) that possesses the following skills will stand out against the competition:

• DevOps: Working experience of DevOps. DevOps is the combination of cultural philosophies, practices, and tools that increases an organization's ability to deliver applications and services at high velocity: evolving and improving products at a faster pace than organizations using traditional software development and infrastructure management processes.
• Data Engineering: Working experience of Data Engineering, which includes gathering and collectiong of data, storing it, batch processing or real-time processing of data, and setting up access via e.g. an API.
• Predictive / Preventative Maintenance: Working experience of Predictive / Preventative Maintenance. The idea behind preventive maintenance (PM) is that by performing regular maintenance on equipment, you lessen the chances of that equipment failing. It's the same idea as taking your car in for regular oil changes to preempt a total breakdown.
• Agile Development: Working experience of Agile Development, which is an umbrella term for a set of methods and practices based on the values and principles expressed in the Agile Manifesto. Solutions evolve through collaboration between self-organizing, cross-functional teams utilizing the appropriate practices for their context.
• Team Management: Team management is the ability of an individual or an organization to administer and coordinate a group of individuals to perform a task.

Experience

This position typically requires the following level of experience. The numbers presented in the pie charts below were derived from actual job posts over the past year. Not all job postings list experience requirements.

Common Job Titles

It is possible to find work in this field in positions commonly listed as the following job titles:

• Engineering Manager
• Project Engineer
• Chief Engineer
• Mobile Engineering Manager
• Senior Project Engineer

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