Production Engineer
The production engineer possesses a wide set of skills, competences and attitudes based on market and scientific knowledge. These abilities are fundamental for the performance of coordinating and integrating professionals of multidisciplinary teams.
The production engineer should be able to:
- Dimmensionate and integrate resources. Usually required to consider physical, human and financial resources at high efficiency and low cost, yet considering the possibility of continuous further improvement;
- Make proper use of math and statistics to model production systems during decision making process;
- Design, implement and refine products, services, processes and systems taking in consideration constraints and particularities of the related communities;
- Forecast and analyse demand. Select among scientific and technological appropriate knowledge in order to design, redesign or improve product/service functionality;
- Incorporate concepts and quality techniques along all the productive system. Deploy organizational standards for control proceedings and auditing;
- Stay up-to-date with technological developments, enabling them to enterprises and society;
- Understand the relation between production systems and the environment. This relates to the use of scarce resources, production dejects and sustainability;
- Manage and optimize flow (information and production flow).
Work opportunities are available in public and private sector manufacturing organizations engaged in implementation, development and management of new production processes, information and control systems, and computer controlled inspection, assembly and handling..
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