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Chief engineer: characteristics and job description

The posi­tion of chief engi­neer is includ­ed in the main man­age­ment of the enter­prise. The pro­fes­sion implies the pres­ence of a cer­tain edu­ca­tion, addi­tion­al skills and work expe­ri­ence. Some per­son­al qual­i­ties are also impor­tant. The effi­cien­cy of any tech­ni­cal enter­prise depends on the pro­fes­sion­al­ism of the chief engi­neer.

Characteristics of the profession

The chief engi­neer (code accord­ing to OKPDTR 20758), in addi­tion to study­ing the tech­ni­cal activ­i­ties of the enter­prise, decides on the fea­si­bil­i­ty of its recon­struc­tion, re-equip­ment of pro­duc­tion. To do this, the spe­cial­ist must care­ful­ly ana­lyze all pos­si­ble prospects. The chief engi­neer should car­ry out activ­i­ties aimed at increas­ing labor pro­duc­tiv­i­ty and ratio­nal use of avail­able labor resources.

The posi­tion also includes:

  • devel­op­ment of all nec­es­sary tech­ni­cal plans;
  • deter­mi­na­tion of meth­ods for improv­ing the qual­i­ty of all man­u­fac­tured and sold prod­ucts of the com­pa­ny;
  • con­trol over the exact obser­vance of estab­lished and manda­to­ry pro­duc­tion stan­dards;
  • approval of plans and draw­ings used in pro­duc­tion.


The posi­tion is con­sid­ered broad-based and involves many spe­cial skills. The chief engi­neer must pos­sess such human qual­i­ties as a high degree of respon­si­bil­i­ty, man­age­r­i­al abil­i­ties, ana­lyt­i­cal and tech­ni­cal mind­set, ini­tia­tive and dili­gence.

The pro­fes­sion­al stan­dard also implies such skills.

  • Mobil­i­ty. A fea­ture of the posi­tion is the need to con­stant­ly check var­i­ous objects, they may be in oth­er areas, the spe­cial­ist must be ready at any time to go on planned and unplanned busi­ness trips.
  • Abil­i­ty to work com­fort­ably in a team. The chief engi­neer does not work alone, his activ­i­ty is con­nect­ed with con­stant con­tact with work­ers and man­agers of struc­tur­al enter­pris­es, the spe­cial­ist should eas­i­ly make con­tact and not be prone to con­flicts.
  • Abil­i­ty to car­ry out monot­o­nous activ­i­ties for a long time. The posi­tion implies the per­for­mance of cer­tain duties that are repeat­ed dai­ly, in some cas­es the emo­tion­al state of a per­son may not with­stand the monot­o­nous load, for the chief engi­neer the pres­ence of such a qual­i­ty is unac­cept­able.
  • Ratio­nal­i­ty. In this case, we mean the abil­i­ty to ratio­nal­ly and expe­di­ent­ly man­age the com­pa­ny’s finances, all costs must be jus­ti­fied and ben­e­fit the enter­prise.
  • Inge­nu­ity. The posi­tion implies a con­stant analy­sis of the work of the enter­prise and the devel­op­ment of ways to improve pro­duc­tion, the spe­cial­ist must be able to draw up schemes for increas­ing labor pro­duc­tiv­i­ty and devel­op their own inno­v­a­tive ideas.


Job description


The duties and direct tasks of the chief engi­neer include many func­tions. It is this spe­cial­ist who deter­mines the tech­ni­cal pol­i­cy of the enter­prise where he works. The posi­tion implies spe­cif­ic rights, duties and respon­si­bil­i­ty for their non-ful­fill­ment.

All the nuances are pre­scribed in the job descrip­tion and are gen­er­al­ly accept­ed. They can dif­fer from the stan­dard ones only if it is pre­scribed in the com­pa­ny’s char­ter.

Responsibilities

The spe­cial­ist takes the sec­ond place in the man­age­ment team after the gen­er­al direc­tor of the enter­prise. This nuance is due to the pres­ence of a wide range of duties of a per­son hold­ing this posi­tion. This spe­cial­ist should be able to cal­cu­late the most prof­itable ways for the enter­prise to work in the con­di­tions of the mod­ern mar­ket.

The duties of a spe­cial­ist include:

  • con­duct­ing prod­uct qual­i­ty con­trol;
  • work equip­ment test con­trolinclud­ing ensur­ing time­ly repair and expan­sion of the range of equip­ment used;
  • iden­ti­fi­ca­tion of the need to improve the exist­ing qual­i­fi­ca­tions of employ­eesfull con­trol over human resources;
  • mon­i­tor­ing com­pli­ance with dead­linesindi­cat­ed in the esti­mates, state­ments and oth­er doc­u­ments of the enter­prise, where his sig­na­ture is;
  • event man­age­mentaimed at improv­ing the com­pa­ny’s pro­duc­tion process­es and their mod­ern­iza­tion;
  • con­trol of fire and tech­ni­cal safe­ty at facil­i­tiesthat are under its juris­dic­tion — this para­graph also implies appro­pri­ate lia­bil­i­ty for fail­ure to ful­fill oblig­a­tions, includ­ing mate­r­i­al ones;
  • ensur­ing time­ly draft­ing and prepa­ra­tion of all types of tech­ni­cal doc­u­men­ta­tion;
  • con­trol over com­pli­ance with dis­ci­pline in pro­duc­tion activ­i­ties – tech­no­log­i­cal, design, fire, design dis­ci­plines, labor pro­tec­tion, com­pli­ance with envi­ron­men­tal and san­i­tary stan­dards;
  • addi­tion­al staff train­inginclud­ing the con­clu­sion of con­tracts with uni­ver­si­ties and oth­er edu­ca­tion­al insti­tu­tions, if nec­es­sary;
  • per­for­mance of duties of the gen­er­al direc­tor in his tem­po­rary absence.

The func­tion­al­i­ty may include oth­er items. The key fac­tor in this case is the specifics of the enter­prise and its activ­i­ties. Gen­er­al points are fixed at the leg­isla­tive lev­el. The instruc­tion can­not con­tra­dict them. Only changes relat­ed to spe­cif­ic activ­i­ties are allowed. For exam­ple, an engi­neer work­ing with equip­ment must reg­u­lar­ly check it and super­vise repairs. If only employ­ees are sub­or­di­nate, then the item about equip­ment can be exclud­ed from the instruc­tions.


Rights


The Chief Engi­neer may use his per­son­al sig­na­ture when sign­ing doc­u­ments relat­ing to the area of ​​his direct author­i­ty. The spe­cial­ist has the right to con­clude the nec­es­sary con­tracts not only with legal enti­ties, but also with indi­vid­u­als. He can give spe­cial instruc­tions to all heads of tech­ni­cal ser­vices and depart­ments.

Oth­er rights:

  • receive all the nec­es­sary and com­plete infor­ma­tion from the struc­tur­al heads of tech­ni­cal depart­ments, if it con­cerns his author­i­ty;
  • check the activ­i­ties of all tech­ni­cal struc­tures of the com­pa­ny;
  • make a deci­sion on hir­ing new spe­cial­ists, in addi­tion, the chief engi­neer can at any time request infor­ma­tion about already work­ing employ­ees of tech­ni­cal struc­tures;
  • take part in the prepa­ra­tion of all esti­mates, instruc­tions and orders of the enter­prise relat­ed to the pro­duc­tion activ­i­ties of the com­pa­ny;
  • require the main man­age­ment of the com­pa­ny to pro­vide the pro­duc­tion process with all the nec­es­sary resources to cre­ate the most com­fort­able orga­ni­za­tion­al and tech­ni­cal con­di­tions;
  • give instruc­tions to the heads of all sub­or­di­nate struc­tures on work in pro­duc­tion;
  • make pro­pos­als on inno­va­tions in pro­duc­tion, attrac­tion of new employ­ees, retrain­ing of exist­ing per­son­nel;
  • take part in the devel­op­ment of a pro­gram for the ratio­nal devel­op­ment of the enter­prise, the par­tic­i­pa­tion of this spe­cial­ist in this case is a pre­req­ui­site.

Besides, the chief engi­neer has the right to all guar­an­tees that are pro­vid­ed for at the leg­isla­tive lev­el. The spe­cial­ist may also require man­age­ment assis­tance in the imple­men­ta­tion of their imme­di­ate pro­fes­sion­al duties, as well as request the infor­ma­tion nec­es­sary for their imple­men­ta­tion.


If nec­es­sary, the posi­tion implies the right to car­ry out advanced train­ing. This item is also includ­ed in the list of rights of the chief engi­neer.


A responsibility


The chief engi­neer has a spe­cif­ic list of respon­si­bil­i­ties. Fail­ure to com­ply will result in lia­bil­i­ty. The employ­ee must com­ply with the norms of dis­ci­pline and fol­low cer­tain orders. The list of duties of this spe­cial­ist includes gen­er­al and indi­vid­ual tasks. He bears respon­si­bil­i­ty regard­less of which cat­e­go­ry the oblig­a­tion belongs to.. For neg­li­gence, non-ful­fill­ment or par­tial ful­fill­ment, a spe­cial­ist may receive a rep­ri­mand, a fine or be fired. The penal­ty depends on the com­pa­ny’s inter­nal statutes.

The Chief Engi­neer is respon­si­ble for:

  • in case of vio­la­tion of the estab­lished safe­ty reg­u­la­tions;
  • for vio­la­tion of labor dis­ci­pline and the order estab­lished at the enter­prise;
  • in case of vio­la­tion of fire safe­ty;
  • for dis­clo­sure of trade secrets or oth­er con­fi­den­tial infor­ma­tion;
  • in case of inap­pro­pri­ate exe­cu­tion of inter­nal orders and orders of the com­pa­ny.

The chief engi­neer bears finan­cial respon­si­bil­i­ty and must com­pen­sate for the dam­age caused by his activ­i­ties or improp­er per­for­mance of duties. The list of equip­ment and oth­er sit­u­a­tions that imply such respon­si­bil­i­ty are pre­scribed in the con­tract with the employ­ee.

In addi­tion, the spe­cial­ist bears crim­i­nal and admin­is­tra­tive respon­si­bil­i­ty for some types of his duties.

Job Requirements


The posi­tion implies com­pli­ance with a num­ber of qual­i­fi­ca­tion nuances. In order to work in this spe­cial­iza­tion, you need at least five years of expe­ri­ence in a sim­i­lar activ­i­ty and a high­er pro­file (specif­i­cal­ly tech­ni­cal) edu­ca­tion. He is required to know the rules of fire safe­ty and labor pro­tec­tion rules. If he is tem­porar­i­ly unable to ful­fill his duties, then the gen­er­al direc­tor appoints his tem­po­rary deputy.

The spe­cial­ist must know:

  • stan­dard san­i­tary and hygien­ic norms;
  • all the nuances of pro­duc­tion tech­nol­o­gy (from vol­umes to ways to increase them);
  • rules for orga­niz­ing labor activ­i­ty at the enter­prise;
  • the main pur­pose of the equip­ment used in pro­duc­tion (includ­ing its tech­ni­cal char­ac­ter­is­tics, meth­ods of assem­bly and dis­as­sem­bly, meth­ods of repair if such a need aris­es);
  • meth­ods of qual­i­fied plan­ning of work nec­es­sary for the imple­men­ta­tion of high-qual­i­ty activ­i­ties of the enter­prise;
  • all the nuances of the com­pa­ny’s activ­i­ties and its struc­ture (with­in its com­pe­tence);
  • rules for draw­ing up pro­duc­tion plans;
  • types of defec­tive equip­ment and raw mate­ri­als (as well as ways to elim­i­nate and pre­vent them);
  • norms of the cur­rent labor law (in rela­tion to their activ­i­ties and sub­or­di­nates);
  • the legal frame­work that reg­u­lates the activ­i­ties of the enter­prise;
  • indus­tri­al alarm device (includ­ing meth­ods for its repair, replace­ment and trou­bleshoot­ing);
  • nuances of draw­ing up eco­nom­ic and basic finan­cial con­tracts (with­in their com­pe­tence).


Education


In order for a spe­cial­ist to take the post of chief engi­neer, a high­er tech­ni­cal edu­ca­tion (bach­e­lor’s degree) is required. After grad­u­at­ing from an edu­ca­tion­al insti­tu­tion, there must be at least five years of work expe­ri­ence in the pro­fes­sion. This peri­od implies the acqui­si­tion by a spe­cial­ist of all the nec­es­sary knowl­edge in prac­tice. If nec­es­sary, advanced train­ing or retrain­ing is car­ried out. You can take such cours­es not only in edu­ca­tion­al insti­tu­tions, but also in pro­duc­tion, if this is pro­vid­ed for by the char­ter of the enter­prise.

Place of work

The need to intro­duce the posi­tion of chief engi­neer may arise at any enter­prise whose activ­i­ties are relat­ed to pro­duc­tion process­es. For exam­ple, such spe­cial­ists must be includ­ed in the staff of motor trans­port plants, the heat sup­ply indus­try, con­struc­tion orga­ni­za­tions, poul­try farms, hotels, and phar­ma­ceu­ti­cal enter­pris­es. It is impos­si­ble to car­ry out the activ­i­ties of the gas econ­o­my with­out a qual­i­fied and expe­ri­enced chief engi­neer. In addi­tion, the work of the Moscow Metro and the metro in oth­er cities also implies the manda­to­ry pres­ence of such a posi­tion in the list of employ­ees.

Some nuances of the activ­i­ties of chief engi­neers, depend­ing on the scope of pro­duc­tion:

  • trans­port (assess­ment of the effi­cien­cy of trans­port sys­tems, con­trol of per­son­nel activ­i­ties, fore­cast­ing the devel­op­ment of some trans­port sys­tems);
  • con­struc­tion (pro­fes­sion­al main­te­nance of the rel­e­vant con­struc­tion doc­u­men­ta­tion, par­tic­i­pa­tion in the prepa­ra­tion of the nec­es­sary busi­ness plans, dis­tri­b­u­tion of the avail­able finances of the enter­prise, tech­ni­cal re-equip­ment of the com­pa­ny, qual­i­ty con­trol of con­struc­tion works, respon­si­bil­i­ty for the time­ly deliv­ery of build­ings and oth­er con­struc­tion objects);
  • rail­way sphere (exe­cu­tion of man­age­ment of all involved struc­tures, con­trol of ser­vice­abil­i­ty of the rolling stock);
  • avi­a­tion (con­trol of the process­es of cre­ation and repair of avi­a­tion equip­ment, orga­ni­za­tion of flights);
  • ener­gy (main­te­nance and devel­op­ment of ener­gy sys­tems, cal­cu­la­tion and con­trol of ener­gy con­sump­tion, ver­i­fi­ca­tion of elec­tri­cal sys­tems and spe­cial­ized equip­ment);
  • food indus­try (con­trol and respon­si­bil­i­ty for the qual­i­ty of raw mate­ri­als pro­duced, plan­ning and orga­ni­za­tion of all process­es of pro­duc­tion activ­i­ties);
  • hous­ing and com­mu­nal ser­vices enter­pris­es (pro­pos­al and devel­op­ment of mea­sures that improve the qual­i­ty of life of prop­er­ty own­ers, con­trol of fire safe­ty and tech­ni­cal con­di­tion of facil­i­ties, devel­op­ment of reg­u­la­tions for sub­or­di­nates, imple­men­ta­tion of sched­uled or unsched­uled inspec­tions of exist­ing equip­ment);
  • med­ical insti­tu­tions (devel­op­ment of plans for the repair and main­te­nance of med­ical equip­ment, analy­sis of the caus­es of its break­downs and pre­ma­ture wear, prepa­ra­tion of requests for the sup­ply of spare parts, main­te­nance of all nec­es­sary tech­ni­cal doc­u­men­ta­tion, reg­u­lar checks of the tech­ni­cal con­di­tion of the equip­ment);
  • oper­a­tion of equip­ment at the enter­prise (con­trol of fire and emer­gency safe­ty, inves­ti­ga­tion and record­ing of acci­dents, train­ing of per­son­nel, par­tic­i­pa­tion in the devel­op­ment of instruc­tions).


How much does he earn?


The salary of a chief engi­neer depends on the scale of the enter­prise and the region in which the activ­i­ty is car­ried out. In addi­tion, it mat­ters how long a spe­cial­ist holds this posi­tion. For exam­ple, the salaries of chief engi­neers work­ing on a project for a year or five years will vary sig­nif­i­cant­ly.

Approx­i­mate indi­ca­tors depend­ing on the region:

  • in Moscow and Moscow region — from 80,000 rubles;
  • in Kras­no­yarsk — from 62,000 rubles;
  • in Omsk — up to 50,000 rubles;
  • in St. Peters­burg - from 70,000 rubles.

It is impos­si­ble to become a chief engi­neer of an enter­prise with only a high­er spe­cial­ized edu­ca­tion. The posi­tion requires expe­ri­ence.

In addi­tion, this spe­cial­ist has a list of duties that can be per­formed, know­ing all the specifics of the com­pa­ny’s tech­ni­cal activ­i­ties. Spe­cial require­ments apply to chief engi­neers of dif­fer­ent areas.

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