This standard identifies the competences you need to determine the requirements for engineering activities, in accordance with approved procedures. The range of engineering processes could include manufacturing operations, installation, production, maintenance, engineering support functions or other activities, such as performance measurement or business improvement.  You will be required to interpret the requirements, to specify the quality criteria and to facilitate any necessary changes to the engineering activities.

Your responsibilities will require you to comply with organisational policy and procedures for ensuring the successful determination of engineering requirements, and to report any problems that you cannot personally resolve to the relevant authority. You will be expected to work unsupervised, either on your own or as part of a team, which you may lead or direct, taking full responsibility for your actions, and possibly for the work of colleagues or subordinates.

Your underpinning knowledge will provide a good understanding of general and discipline-specific engineering principles and processes. You will be fully conversant with organisational procedures and systems. You will understand quality assurance principles and systems, and the appropriate specifications, details and formats, in adequate depth to provide a sound basis for carrying out the activities to the required standard.

You will be fully aware of any health, safety and environmental requirements, and the appropriate legislative and regulatory frameworks applicable to your area of responsibility. You will be required to ensure that safe working practices are maintained throughout, and will understand the responsibility you owe to yourself and others in the workplace.

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1. work safely at all times, complying with health and safety and other relevant regulations, directives and guidelines
2. obtain accurate details of the engineering products or processes
3. review and interpret the specification requirements of the engineering products or processes to assess their characteristics
4. clarify aspects of the engineering products or processes that are unclear
5. specify the quality criteria for the engineering products or processes
6. identify and confirm any changes to the engineering products or processes required to achieve the required outcomes
7. ensure that the requirements comply with all relevant regulations, directives and guidelines
8. record the requirements in the appropriate information systems

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1. the health, safety and environmental requirements applicable to the engineering activities to be carried out
2. how to obtain details of engineering requirements from company information systems
3. how to interpret drawings, charts, specifications, information, data, reports, manuals and other documents needed to understand the requirements of the engineering activity
4. the critical characteristics of engineering activities
5. the methods and techniques for assessing and clarifying aspects of engineering activities that could be unclear
6. the quality criteria that apply to the particular engineering activity
7. how to identify and interpret changes to requirements for engineering activities
8. whom to contact for clarification of the engineering requirements
9. who should authorise any changes to engineering activities
10. the different methods that relate to engineering activities within your area of responsibility
11. how to predict and resolve potential problems with the engineering activities
12. how to specify and communicate engineering requirements to others
13. the importance of using the company information systems
14. the information systems that are in use within your organisation, and how to record data to the system
15. how to obtain and interpret legislative and regulatory documentation
16. how to obtain and interpret company policy and procedures
17. the relevant reporting procedures, documentation and their application
18. whom to inform of actions taken, and by what means
19. the extent of your own responsibility and to whom you should report if you have problems that you cannot resolve

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1. Carry out all of the following when determining the requirements for engineering activities:

   1. obtain details of the required engineering activity
   2. review the critical requirements and quality criteria of the activity
   3. clarify with relevant people any aspects of the activity that are unclear
   4. discuss and facilitate any changes needed to suit the engineering requirements, with the relevant people
   5. ensure that methods and procedures to be used meet relevant regulations and guidelines
   6. define the engineering requirements and communicate them to the relevant people

2. Determine requirements for one of the following engineering activities:

   1. manufacturing (such as machining, fabrication, welding, material finishing or manufacture, assembly, joining)
   2. design
   3. research
   4. product or system installation
   5. commissioning
   6. decommissioning or recycling
   7. environmental or sustainability
   8. operational processes (such as movement of materials and logistics)
   9. maintenance practices (such as preventative, corrective, predictive, reactive or prevention)
   10. processing operations
   11. service supplies (such as gas, water, electricity)
   12. engineering support functions (such as procurement, quality assurance, inspection, testing, scheduled safety audits and risk assessments, business improvement) 

3. Establish requirements for one of the following:

   1. equipment/component/system capacity or capability
   2. equipment/component/system performance
   3. equipment/component/system life cycles
   4. maintenance and repair
   5. people performance
   6. people capacity or capability
   7. product or process quality
   8. supplier capacity or capability
   9. business support function capacity or capability

4. Obtain accurate details of the requirements for the engineering activity, from two of the following sources:

   1. design office                                
   2. sales department          
   3. the client
   4. production engineering                 
   5. safety engineering        
   6. contractors/specialists
   7. process engineering                     
   8. plant engineering          
   9. component/product manufacturers
   10. quality engineering                        
   11. industrial engineering   
   12. material/component supplier
   13. human resources (HR) personnel

5. Identify the methods, quality criteria and plans to be used, covering two of the following:

   1. processing parameters                                               
   2. commissioning
   3. installation
   4. servicing, maintenance and repair
   5. equipment preparation/selection                                 
   6. people responsibilities
   7. product/process monitoring 
   8. financial monitoring                                                               
   9. feedback/communication
   10. scheduling/planning                                                                 
   11. movement of equipment/resources
   12. configuring/reconfiguring
   13. inspection or testing
   14. purchasing                                           
   15. stock control
   16. logistics
   17. business improvements
   18. staff development
   19. infrastructure requirements
   20. safety checks/procedures                                           
   21. co-ordinating contracts

6. Ensure that the requirements comply with three of the following:

   1. organisational guidelines and procedures                                               
   2. recognised compliance agency/body standards, directives or codes of practice
   3. equipment manufactures operating specification/range                                                     
   4. British, European or International standards or directives
   5. health, safety and environmental requirements                                 
   6. statutory bodies' requirements

7. Agree and confirm any changes required with two of the following:

   1. design department               
   2. production department 
   3. installation/commissioning team               
   4. purchasing/buying department
   5. quality/inspection department
   6. contracting department
   7. sales/marketing department                               
   8. customer                                  
   9. supplier                                    
   10. other specific personnel

8. Record and communicate the requirements to the appropriate people, using:

   1. a verbal report

plus one from the following:
2. electronic mail                                                           
3. computer-based presentation
4. computer generated report                                                
5. specific company document
6. other appropriate media

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​Additional Information

You will be able to apply the appropriate behaviours required in the workplace to meet the job profile and overall company objectives, such as:

• strong work ethic
• positive attitude
• team player
• dependability
• responsibility
• honesty
• integrity
• motivation
• commitment

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SEMEM4-10

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Corporate Managers and Senior Officials, Engineering, Engineering and Manufacturing Technologies, Functional Managers

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Engineering; leading; design; process; maintenance; quality; customer; function; features; objectives; manufacturing; installation; commissioning; testing; carrying out; problems; specifications; quality; research; activities

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