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Secon B
Contents
SECTION A
INTRODUCTION ....................................................... 6
1. Occupational Categories in Engineering ................... 6
2.
English Language Requirements .................................. 6
3.
Pathways to Migration Skills Assessment ................. 8
4.
Applying Online ............................................................... 9
5.
Using a Migration Agent .............................................. 10
6.
Assessment fees and payments ................................. 10
7.
The Assessment Process ............................................. 10
8.
Assessment Outcome .................................................. 10
9.
Appealing the Assessment Outcome ....................... 11
10.
Ethical Standards......................................................... 11
ASSESSMENT OF ACCREDITED QUALIFICATIONS
INTRODUCTION.................................................... 14
1.
Australian Qualifications ............................................. 14
2.
The Washington Accord .............................................. 14
3.
The Sydney Accord ....................................................... 15
4.
The Dublin Accord ........................................................ 15
ASSESSMENT OF NON-ACCREDITED
QUALIFICATIONS/ENGINEERING MANAGER
INTRODUCTION ................................................... 18
1.
Steps in Preparing a CDR ............................................ 18
Components of the CDR .................................................. 18
Professional Engineer — Summary Statement ............ 22
Engineering Technologist — Summary Statement ..... 23
Engineering Associate — Summary Statement ........... 24
Engineering Manager — Summary Statement ............. 25
ADDITIONAL ASSESSMENT SERVICES
INTRODUCTION...................................................... 28
1.
Fast Track ........................................................................ 28
2.
Online Application Process ......................................... 28
3.
Assessment of Overseas PhD in Engineering ......... 28
4.
Relevant Skilled Employment ..................................... 28
Detailed description of competency elements
for each occupational category
Professional Engineer ............................................ 33
General Description of Role ........................................... 33
Units and Elements of Competency ............................. 34
Engineering Technologist ...................................... 38
General Description of Role ........................................... 38
Units and Elements of Competency ............................. 39
Engineering Associate ........................................... 43
General Description of Role ........................................... 43
Units and Elements of Competency ............................. 44
Engineering Manager ............................................. 48
General Description of Role ........................................... 48
Units and Elements of Competency ............................. 49
SECTION B
SECTION C
SECTION D
APPENDIX
1.
Personal Information .................................................... 18
2.
Application Information ............................................... 18
3.
Education ......................................................................... 18
4.
Employment .................................................................... 19
Secon A
Introducon
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Secon A
Introducon
Engineers Australia is the designated assessing authority
for most engineering occupaons.
1. Occupaonal Categories in Engineering
Engineers Australia recognises three occupaonal
categories within the engineering pracce in Australia:
• Professional Engineer
• Engineering Technologist
• Engineering Associate
For migraon purposes, the addional category of
Engineering Manager is also recognised.
Professional Engineer
The required academic qualicaon is an Australian
4 year bachelor degree in engineering at a University
following 12 years of schooling or equivalent.
The Professional Engineer:
• Focuses on overall systems
• Pursues engineering opportunies in a holisc way,
taking environmental, community & social issues into
account
• Applies systemac approaches to the conduct and
management of engineering projects
• Applies systemac engineering synthesis and design
processes
• Applies established engineering methods to complex
engineering problems
• Applies leadership & management skills
(
P
lease refer to Appendix page 32 for more information)
Engineering Technologist
The required academic qualicaon is an Australian
3 year bachelor of technology degree in engineering
following 12 years of schooling or equivalent.
The Engineering Technologist:
• Focuses on interacons within the system
• Applies established engineering methods, techniques,
tools and resources within the technology domain
• Advances engineering technology
(Please refer to Appendix page 37 for more informaon)
Engineering Associate
The required academic qualicaon is an Australian
2 year Advanced Diploma or Associate Degree
in engineering following 12 years of schooling
or equivalent.
The Engineering Associate:
• Focuses on specic elements of the system
• Operates within codes and applies established
pracces and procedures
• Provides technical support to construcon managers
and engineering professionals in research, design,
manufacture, assembly, construcon, operaon and
maintenance of machines and equipment, facilies,
distribuon systems and installaons
• Assists in resource esmaon and site inspecon
• Prepares, interprets, inspects and revises drawings,
plans, diagrams, designs, maps and charts
(Please refer to Appendix page 42 for more informaon)
Engineering Manager
The required academic qualicaon is generally a
bachelor degree or higher in engineering or in an
engineering related eld following 12 years of schooling
or equivalent.
The Engineering Manager:
• Formulates engineering strategies, policies and plans
and their direcon
• Administrates and reviews engineering operaons for
an organisaon.
Applicants should note that this occupaon is not an
engineering occupaon, but rather belongs to the
Managers ANZSCO group. Consequently, a posive
outcome will not allow automac membership with
Engineers Australia.
(Please refer to Appendix page 47 for more informaon)
2. English Language Requirements
Al
l applicants applying to have their skills assessed by
Engineers Australia are required to provide evidence of
their English language competency through one of the
following tests:
IELTS
Engineers Australia accepts both the General and
Academic versions of the test.
TOEFL®
Engineers Australia accepts the TOEFL iBT® English
language test.
PTE ACADEMIC
From the 1st November 2017, Engineers Australia will
be accepting the Pearson PTE ACADEMIC™ test.
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Secon A
The following table indicates the minimal scores for each
module:
IELTS, TOEFL i
BT® and PTE ACADEMIC™ results
must not be more than 2 years old at the time
your application is submitted.
The following applicants may be exempt from the
requirement to provide an English language test:
•
Applicant
s who have completed an Australian
und
ergraduate engineering qualification or a 2
year
Masters degree
(92 weeks full tim
e)
or PhD program
at an Australian university. Documentary evidence
of successful completion of the Australian
qualification is required
for exemption on this basis;
•
Applicants who are nave English speakers.
A nave English speaker is a person who lived and was
educated (primary, secondary and terary educaon)
in the country where the ocial language is English:
Australia, New Zealand, the United States of America,
the United Kingdom, Ireland and Canada (excluding
Quebec).
Please note, exempons are determined on a case by
case basis and Engineers Australia reserves the right to
request an English language test result at any stage of
the assessment.
For further informaon on English language tests, please
refer to the following websites:
Applicants will need to upload their test results as w
ell as
enter their reference number.
IELTS
TOEFL
PEARSON PTE
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Secon A
3. Pathways to Migraon Skills
There are ve applicaon pathways for migraon skills assessment:
a. Accredited qualicaons (refer to Secon B)
1. Australian Qualicaons
2. Washington Accord Qualicaons
3. Sydney Accord Qualicaons
4. Dublin Accord Qualicaons
b. Non-Accredited qualicaons/ Engineering Manager (refer to Secon C)
5. Competency Demonstraon Report (CDR)
The pathways to recognion are shown in the diagram below.
Apply under
Competency
Demonstraon
Report (CDR)
Pathway
Apply under
Australian
Qualificaon
Pathway
Apply under
Washington
Qualificaon
Pathway
Apply under
Sydney
Qualificaon
Pathway
Apply under
Dublin
Qualificaon
Pathway
I want to be assessed according to my degree tle and course content
YES YES
YES
YES
YES
YES YES
NO
NO
NO
YES
YES
My qualificaon is obtained the same year or aer the
country became a Signatory to the relevant Accord
My qualificaon is
Accredited by
Engineers Australia
My qualificaon is
from a country
which is a full
signatory to the
Washington Accord
My qualificaon is
from a country
which is a full
signatory to the
Sydney Accord
My qualificaon is
from a country
which is a full
signatory to the
Dublin Accord
My qualificaon is
either not
Accredited OR it is
from a non-Accord
listed country
My qualificaon is listed as fully accredited according to the Signatory’s
published lisng, and the date of my qualificaon matches the listed
accreditaon dates
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Secon A
4. Applying Online
Applicants are required to submit an online applicaon.
Please refer to the MSA Online Applicaon User’s Guide to
ensure applicaons are submied correctly. If you are
unable to apply online, please contact us.
To iniate an online applicaon you must have an
individual EA ID number. Note that your EA ID number
is the same as your CID number or your membership
number.
If you do not have an EA ID/CID/Membership number,
you will need to register for an EA ID number through
myPortal. If you already have an EA ID/CID/Membership
number you will need to register for a password in
myPortal.
Before lodging and paying for your a
pplication ensure
your billing address on MyPortal is current, so that you
are charged the correct fee.
An email nocaon including your EA ID number and
applicaon number will be sent conrming successful
submission of your applicaon. Your applicaon will be
placed in the processing queue upon payment of the fee.
If you are using a credit card, the fee will be processed
immediately and a receipt will be sent to you by email. If
you are paying an invoice, a receipt will be sent to you
once the payment has been processed.
All required documents must be colour scans of
original documents and must have a resoluon of at
least 300 dpi.
Where documents are not in the English language,
you must upload colour scans of the documents in the
original language as well as English language translaons.
All translaons must be carried out by an authorised
translator. The registered ID, name, status and contact
details of the translator must be provided on the English
language translaon.
Please follow the steps as shown in the diagram below.
Online applicaon Process
www.engineersaustralia.org.au
my Portal
Do you have?
EA ID or CID Number?
NO
Create New
Account
Receive your
EA ID by email
YES
Register for myPortal Password
Log in EA myPortal
Receive Email Confirmaon
Select Migraon Skills Assessment
In the Menu
Select your pathway and upload
all required Documents
Submit your applicaon
Log on to Engineers Australia’s myPortal to access the
online services, select Migraon Skills Assessment from
the menu. You will then be able to start, save, resume
and submit your applicaon.
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5. Using a Migraon Agent
If you are using an agent, you must provide your agent
with your EA ID/CID/membership number. If you do not
yet have a number, your agent will be able to create one
for you. Your agent will then iniate an applicaon on
your behalf.
Note that your agent does not need to register for
a password on your behalf and you do not need to
provide details of your password to them.
6. Assessment fees and payments
Current Assessment fees are available on our website.
Note: Extra fees apply for the addional services. A
discount is applicable when standard assessment and
addional service applicaons are submied at the same
me. If an applicaon for addional services is submied
aer the standard assessment applicaon, the full fee of
each addional service applies.
The following methods of payment are acceptable:
• Credit Card (Visa, MasterCard, American Express)
• BPAY- You must request an invoice for the BPAY
details (Biller code and reference number)
Alternave methods of payment may be available upon
request.
The assessment fee is not refundable.
Goods and Service Tax (GST):
• Applicants who are living in Australia MUST pay 10%
GST on the applicaon fee
• Applicants living overseas, who lodge their applicaon
from overseas, are NOT required to pay the GST
• Applicants living overseas, who lodge an applicaon
for assessment through an agent in Australia
(Migraon Agent, relave or friend living in Australia)
are NOT required to pay the GST.
7. The Assessment Process
You will be able to check the status of your applicaon
online by logging into Engineers Australia’s myPortal.
Assessment Turnaround Time
The turnaround me for processing assessments
can vary, depending on the numbers of incoming
applicaons. Refer to the website for regular
updates.
Please DO NOT contact Engineers Australia within
this me frame as this will delay processing me for
all applicaons.
Should your assessor require further informaon, a
nocaon will be sent to you by email informing you
that you have a task to complete in the system. You
will need to log into Engineers Australia’s myPortal
for details of the request and to submit any addional
documentaon.
Your response to any request from this oce must
be aconed within the specied me frame to
avoid cancellaon of your applicaon.
8. Assessment Outcome
If the assessment is successful, an assessment outcome
leer suitable for migraon purposes will be sent to you
by email.
The outcome leer can be veried online by entering the
applicaon details
here.
Assessment outcome leers that cannot be issued
electronically will be sent by ordinary post. You may be
charged a fee for this service.
Please note that from the perspecve of Engineers
Australia, the assessment leer has no expiry date.
However, we are aware that the Department of
Immigraon and Border Protecon validity policy
may vary from this. As such, if the Department of
Immigraon and Border Protecon requests an updated
leer, please contact Engineers Australia for instrucons.
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Secon A
9. Appealing the Assessment Outcome
If you are not sased with the assessment outcome you
can proceed with the review process.
Opon 1: Apply for an Informal Review. This must
be made within 3 months of the date of the original
assessment outcome leer. To lodge an informal review
you must submit the form Applicaon for Informal Review
of Assessment Outcome and pay the Informal Review fee.
You may include a cover leer explaining your reasons for
appealing the assessment outcome. No new informaon
can be presented. Applicants that are not sased with
the outcome may apply for a formal appeal.
Opon 2: Apply for a Formal Appeal. This must be
made within 6 months of the date of the original
assessment outcome leer. To lodge a formal appeal you
must submit the form Applicaon for Formal Appeal of
Assessment Outcome and pay the Formal Appeal Fee. The
outcome of the Formal Appeal is FINAL in the review
process.
•
•
The Informal Review may take
8 weeks and the
Formal Appeal may take 3 months to pro
cess.
•
The review and appeal fees can be r
efund
ed if the
proc
ess yields the outcome originally
sough
t by the
applicant and no additional documents were
provided.
10. Ethical Standards
Informaon you provide to Engineers Australia may be
used for data matching with Australian Government
agencies. Engineers Australia reserves the right to use
soware applicaons to screen your submied work
for matches either to published sources or to other
submied applicaons.
Misleading and false informaon is viewed as a major
breach of ethical behaviour. We refer applicants to the
Engineers Australia Code of Ethics, in parcular the
demonstraon of integrity, available
here.
The sancons regarding misleading applicaons include
nocaon to the Department of Immigraon and Border
Protecon and up to 12 months ban from applying for a
skills assessment with Engineers Australia.
Applications and fees for the review process can
be found here. Download the form and submit the
form with your review application.
Secon B
Assessment of
Accredited Qualicaons
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Secon B
Introducon
Accredited qualicaons are Australian and overseas
engineering qualicaons which are recognised through
formal internaonal agreements.
Engineers Australia is a signatory to three internaonal
agreements — the Washington Accord, the Sydney
Accord and the Dublin Accord.
The assessment of Australian and Accord accredited
qualicaons is primarily based upon undergraduate
qualicaons. However, some postgraduate
qualifications have been accredited as standalone
qualifications.
Please make sure your qualification is accredited
through the representative body of the signatory
country by checking the International Engineering
Alliance (IEA) website here.
If your postgraduate qualification is not independently
accredited and you do not have an accredited
undergraduate qualification, you will need to submit a
Competency Demonstration Report (CDR) assessment.
The CDR assessment will be based on your combined
qualifications so both the undergraduate and
postgraduate qualifications must be submitted.
The minimum academic requirement for assessment
with Engineers Australia is an Australian Advanced
Diploma or equivalent.
Occupaonal Outcome
The occupaonal outcome of your assessment generally
reects the tle and/or content of your degree. If
you have completed a double major, the outcome
will reect the dominant major. Only one outcome is
given per assessment. If you have a double major and
you have a preference as to which one is recognised,
please upload a cover leer to explain your nominaon.
Please note that this does not guarantee an outcome
in the occupaon requested but rather noes us of
your preference. If you are seeking assessment in an
occupaon that is not the same as the tle of your
degree, you will need to submit a CDR for assessment.
Recognion of Prior Learning
If you have received credit/recognion of prior learning
(RPL) for prior studies towards your qualicaon, you will
also need to upload your original academic documents
from the terary instuon where those subjects were
originally completed.
Accords Accredited Qualicaons
Please note:
Only qualicaons based in a signatory country can be
recognised under the Accords.
Only qualicaons completed in or aer the year in
which the country gained full signatory status to the
Accord are accredited.
1. Australian Qualicaons
Graduates of accredited Australian engineering
programs are eligible for migraon skills assessment via
the Australian Engineering Qualicaons applicaon
pathway.
Current lisngs of accredited programs at the level of
Professional Engineer, Engineering Technologist and
Engineering Associate are available
here.
The year shown aer each program is the year in
which that program was rst accredited by Engineers
Australia. Students are deemed to have graduated
from an accredited program provided that they have
commenced their studies within the period that full,
ongoing accreditaon applies. This is denoted by a (F)
aer the commencement date of an accredited program.
Provisional accreditaon is denoted by a (P) aer the
commencement date and indicates that full accreditaon
is expected but not guaranteed. Applicants with
provisionally accredited qualicaons will be required
to submit a Competency Demonstraon Report for
assessment.
Engineers Australia has accredited several engineering
programs delivered by Australian universies oshore.
Please refer to our published list of accredited Australian
qualicaons for informaon on the accreditaon of
oshore programs. Applicants with accredited Australian
qualifications obtained offshore are required to provide
an IELTS, TOEFL iBT® or PTE ACADEMIC™ test result
(see Section A).
2. The Washington Accord
Only qualicaons publicly listed as accredited by the
relevant signatory will be considered for recognion via
the Washington Accord. The tle of your qualicaon
must be the same as the tle on the published list of
accredited qualicaons for the relevant signatory.
Accreditaon applies for qualicaons completed in or
aer the year in which the relevant organisaon gained
full signatory status to the Washington Accord.
Please follow this link for relevant dates and signatory
details. Click on the relevant signatory web link for the
published list of accredited programs for that country.
The minimum academic requirements for an assessment
via the Washington Accord are qualicaons which are
broadly comparable to an Australian 4 year bachelor
degree in engineering.
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Secon B
The Washington Accord applies only to engineering
degrees accredited by the representave body of
the signatory country. (e.g. A Turkish qualicaon
accredited by ABET will not fall under the Washington
Accord as MUDEK is the representave body for
Turkey).
Applicants with qualicaons from the UK
Please pay aenon to the Public Notes on the
accredited course list.
Some qualicaons are listed with a Further
Learning Requirement for recognion as a
Professional Engineer via the Washington Accord.
Where further learning is required and has not been
obtained, the qualicaon is not accredited via the
Washington Accord.
For applicants who have not undertaken further
learning but have completed an Honours degree,
there is a dual Accreditaon provision (see
hp://
www.engc.org.uk/educaon-skills/course-search/acad
,
under the heading Honours degrees and IEng (dual
accreditaon).
All Honours degrees accredited from the intake year
of 1999 are eligible for recognion via the Sydney
Accord. Applicants with ordinary bachelor degrees
and no further learning will be required to submit a
Competency Demonstraon Report for assessment.
Programs that are ‘accredited for further learning
for CEng’ require an accredited undergraduate
qualicaon to apply via the Washington Accord
pathway.
3. The Sydney Accord
Only qualicaons publicly listed as accredited by the
relevant signatory will be considered for recognion via
the Sydney Accord. The tle of your qualicaon must
be the same as the tle appearing on the published list
of accredited qualicaons for the relevant signatory.
Accreditaon applies for qualicaons completed in or
aer the year in which the relevant organisaon gained
full signatory status to the Sydney Accord.
Please follow this link for relevant dates and signatory
details. Click on the relevant signatory web link for the
published list of accredited programs for that country.
The minimum academic requirements for an assessment
via the Sydney Accord are qualicaons which are
broadly comparable to an Australian 3 year Bachelor of
Technology degree in engineering.
The Sydney Accord applies only to engineering degrees
accredited by the representave body of the signatory
country.
4. The Dublin Accord
Only qualicaons publicly listed as accredited by
the relevant signatory body will be considered for
recognion via the Dublin Accord. The tle of your
qualicaon must be the same as the tle appearing
on the published list of accredited qualicaons for the
relevant signatory body.
Accreditaon applies for qualicaons completed in or
aer the year in which the relevant organisaon gained
full signatory status to the Dublin Accord.
Please follow this link for relevant dates and signatory
details. Click on the relevant signatory web link for the
published list of accredited programs for that country.
The minimum academic requirements for an assessment
via the Dublin Accord are qualicaons which are
broadly comparable to an Australian 2 year Advanced
Diploma or Associate Degree in engineering.
The Dublin Accord applies only to engineering degrees
accredited by the representave body of the signatory
country.
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Secon B
Checklist
• Recent passport-style photograph (35mm x 45mm)
• Prime Idencaon Document (current passport,
only page including photo and name)
• Academic degree cercate (a leer of compleon
will only be accepted as a substute before
graduaon and only for Australian qualicaons)
• Complete and ocial academic transcript (including
any recognion of prior learning)
• Curriculum Vitae/Resume
•
IELTS, TOEFL iBT® or PTE ACADEMIC™
result
• Ocial Change of Name documents where applicable
(e.g. gazee publicaon, leer/cercate issued by
registry)
• Ocial English translaons of above documents
where applicable
The documents listed above must be colour scans of
the original documents. Please upload each document
separately (a document might consist of more than
one page. DO NOT upload each page of the document
separately).
Please DO NOT submit the following:
• Cered copy of an original document
• Black and white scans
• Scan of photocopy
• Low resoluon scans. All scans must have a
resolution of at least 300 dpi
• Please refrain from uploading a document mulple
mes.
Processing will be delayed if any of the above is submied.
Secon C
Assessment of
Non-Accredited
Qualicaons/
Engineering Manager
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Secon C
Introducon
This secon provides instrucons for compiling a
Competency Demonstraon Report (CDR). The CDR
assessment is based primarily upon the undergraduate
qualicaon and demonstrated graduate competencies
(refer to Appendix).
Applicants need to provide documentary evidence
of BOTH:
• The core technical engineering knowledge supporng
the nominated occupaon AND;
• The demonstrated applicaon of that knowledge in
the nominated occupaon.
The CDR must be all your own work. All typed
components of the CDR must be done using a word
processor and you are strongly advised to keep a copy.
Your CDR will be assessed against the graduate
competency standards and the ANZSCO denion of
the occupaonal category nominated by you.
1. Steps in Preparing a CDR
The ow chart below shows the steps you need to take
in preparing your CDR.
Personal Informaon
Prepare your personal documentaon: A passport
style photo, prime ID, name change documents,
CV/Resume and English language test results
Application
Nominate your preferred occupational
category
Educ
aon
Prepare academic certificates, transcripts and
any other relevant academic documentation
Ski
lled Employment
Evidence of employment, must be provided by
applicants whose career episodes are based on
engineering experience and/or for Relevant
Skilled Employment services
Report
Prepare CPD Statement, Career Episodes and
Summary Statement
Submit
Once all of the above are prepared, you are now
ready to log into myPortal and lodge a
CDR applicaon
Components of the CDR assessment
1. Personal Informaon
1.1 Passport style photo: You are required to provide a
clear and current passport-style photograph of yourself.
1
.2 Prime ID: You will need t
o provide your current
passport bio-data page (not the enre passport) and
English language translaon where applicable. Where
this is not available a scan of your Birth Certificate
and/or National Identity Card may be acceptable in
lieu.
1.3 Name change documentaon: If your current name
is not the same as that on your academic documents,
you must provide evidence of your name change. This
may include a gazee publicaon, an ocial leer/
cercate issued by registry.
1.4 Curriculum Vitae (CV)/ Résumé: A full summary
of your engineering educaon and work experience is
required. Your CV must be a complete record of your
acvies and must even include any periods of inacvity.
The CV is to be a chronological lisng of employment,
not projects. Your CV should be no more than three A4
pages.
For each workplace provide:
• organisaon name and locaon, including contact
details
• dates and duraon of employment
• tle of posion occupied by you
• your dened role (provide a duty or appointment
statement where available) and/or a brief descripon of
your acvies
1.5 English Language Competency: Applicants applying
to have their skills assessed by Engineers Australia are
required to provide evidence of their English language
competency. See Item 2 of Secon A for full details of
the English competency requirements.
2. Applicaon Informaon
2.1 Engineering Occupaon: You must select the
engineering occupaon in which you are seeking
assessment. Please note, an outcome is not guaranteed
in the nominated occupaon and will be determined
upon assessing. For further informaon on ANZSCO
occupaons, please refer to the Australian Bureau of
Stascs website: www.abs.gov.au
2.2 Registraon: You will need to upload any evidence
of your professional registraon if applicable.
3. Educaon
You must provide your degree cercate and ocial
academic transcript. If you have more than one
engineering qualicaon, all relevant addional
qualicaons must be provided. If you are currently
enrolled in any formal educaonal program, please
upload your enrolment leer and current transcript if
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Secon C
available. Please ensure the name of the educaonal
instuon is entered using the appropriate upper and
lower case leers (e.g. University of New South Wales).
4. Employment
Applicants are required to provide documentary
evidence of work experience. If the reference is not
in the English language, both translation and original
language documents must be provided. All
translations must be carried out by an authorised
translator (see Item 4 Section A).
5. The Report
This secon includes the Connuing Professional
Development, three Career Episodes and Summary
Statement.
5.1 Idencaon of Connuing Professional
Development:
Connuing Professional Development (CPD) is the
means by which you keep up-to-date with developments
in your eld of engineering aer you have gained your
undergraduate qualicaon.
All relevant CPD must be included in your CDR
applicaon. This CPD must be provided in list format
(tle, date, duraon, and venue) and may include
details of:
•
formal post-graduate study;
• conferences at which you have delivered papers or
aended;
• short courses, workshops, seminars, discussion
groups, technical inspecons and technical meengs
you have aended;
• preparaon and presentaon of material for courses,
conferences, seminars and symposia;
• services to the engineering profession (volunteer
work, board or commiee volunteering, mentoring,
etc.);
• private study (includes books, journals, manuals, etc.).
Your CPD lisng must not be more than one A4 page.
It is not necessary to include cercates from
each course.
5.2 Wring your Three Career Episodes:
A career episode is an account of your engineering
educaon and/or work experience. Each career episode
focuses upon a specic period or disnct aspect of your
engineering acvity. Each career episode must focus
on a dierent period or aspect of your engineering
acvity. Each episode should focus on how you applied
your engineering knowledge and skills in the nominated
occupaon.
You may base your career episode upon:
•
an engineering task undertaken as part of your
educaonal program;
• a project you have worked on or are currently
working on;
• a specic posion that you occupied or currently
occupy (in this case, the career episode must
comprise more than a mere duty statement);
• a parcular engineering problem that you were
required to solve.
Each career episode must be wrien in English, in
your own words and will act as evidence of your
communicaon skills to your assessor.
Do not present large amounts of technical material. It
is recommended that each narrave be a minimum of
1000 and maximum of 2500 words.
Each career episode must clearly demonstrate the
applicaon of engineering knowledge and skills in the
nominated occupaon. That is, state what you did and
describe how you did it, emphasising your own personal
role in episode (for example I designed, I invesgated etc.)
Please do not include excessive technical details (photos,
calculaons, tables).
Each career episode should emphasise any engineering
problems idened by you and any parcular problem
solving techniques you applied. The purpose of this is to
assess your personal contribuon in meeng project and
task objecves.
Please Note:
It is not sucient to merely describe work in
which you were involved. Career Episodes must be
wrien in the rst person singular clearly indicang
your own personal role in the work described.
Remember, it is what I did, not what we did or what
‘I was involved in’ and describe how you did it.
4.1 Standard Competency Demonstration Report
Assessment:
Applicants who have claimed engineering employment
for more than 12 months or have based their career
episode upon professional experience must provide a
reference letter from the employer (reference letter on
official company letterhead, stating your title/position,
commencement and termination dates of employment,
signed and dated by the author).
4.2 Relevant Skilled Employment Assessment:
Applicants seeking a relevant skilled employment
assessment, must provide both primary and
secondary documentary evidence. Refer to Section D
for further details.
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You must number each paragraph in each of your career
episodes. This is necessary to construct the Summary
Statement. The following system is recommended:
Career episode 1 (paragraphs 1.1, 1.2, 1.3 etc.)
Career episode 2 (paragraphs 2.1, 2.2, 2.3 etc.)
Career episode 3 (paragraphs 3.1, 3.2, 3.3 etc.)
Career episode format
Each career episode should be in essay form and not
formaed into a table.
Each career episode should follow the format below:
a) Introducon (approx. 100 words)
This introduces the reader to the career episode and
should include such things as:
• the chronology - the dates and duraon of the career
episode;
• the geographical locaon where the experience
was gained;
• the name of the organisaon;
• the tle of the posion occupied by you.
b) Background (200–500 words)
This sets the scene and provides the context in which
you have been studying/working. It should include such
things as:
• the nature of the overall engineering project;
• the objecves of the project;
• the nature of your parcular work area;
• a chart of the organisaonal structure highlighng
your posion, in relaon to the career episode;
• a statement of your dues (provide an ocial duty
statement where available).
c) Personal Engineering Acvity (500–1000 words)
This is the body of the narrave and the key assessable
component. In this secon you must describe in detail
the actual work performed by you. You should state
what you did and then describe how you did it. It is
not sucient to describe the acvies performed
by a team or group - your own role must be clearly
idened. Remember it is your own personal engineering
competencies that are being assessed.
This secon should include such things as:
• how you applied your engineering knowledge
and skills;
• the tasks delegated to you and how you went about
accomplishing them;
• any parcular technical dicules/problems you
encountered and how you solved them;
• strategies devised by you including any original or
creave design work;
• how you worked with other team members.
d) Summary (50–100 words)
This secon sums up your impressions of the
engineering acvity and your role in it. It should include
such things as:
• your view of the overall project;
• how the project fared in meeng the goals /
requirements;
• how your personal role contributed to the project.
5.3 Preparaon of the Summary Statement
The elements for each occupaonal category are
listed in the following pages. The Appendix gives a
detailed descripon of each competency element for
each category.
1. Career Episode
2. Career Episode
3. Career Episode
Summary Statement of competency elements
claimed by you indicang how and where applied
Once you have completed your career episodes you
must analyse them to ensure you have addressed all
the competency elements for the nominated
occupaonal category.
The results of your analysis will be demonstrated in
your Summary Statement. The Summary Statement
cross-references the competency elements with the
parcular paragraph in your Career Episode where each
element occurs. To do this, you will need to number the
paragraphs in your career episodes.
You must download and complete the appropriate
summary statement for your nominated
occupaonal category.
The summary statement templates are available on
the website. These are guides only. Do not aempt to
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restrict your Summary Statement to one page only.
You do not need to cover all the indicators within each
competency element.
Please note that only one Summary Statement is
required for all three episodes.
Checklist
• Recent passport style photograph (35mm x 45mm)
• Prime Idencaon Document (current passport,
only page including photo and name)
• Academic degree cercate (a leer of compleon
will only be accepted as a substute before
graduaon and only for Australian qualicaons)
• Complete and ocial academic transcript (including
any recognion of prior learning)
• Curriculum Vitae/Resume
•
IELTS, TOEFL iBT® or PTE ACADEMIC™
result
• Ocial Change of Name documents where applicable
(e.g. gazee publicaon, leer/cercate issued by
registry)
• Registraon cercate under the relevant licensing
authority where applicable (e.g. Philippine Regulaons
Commission)
•
Documentary evidence of employment (for periods of
12 months or more, or if the employment provides a
basis for a career episode/s)
• List of Connuing Professional Development (CPD)
• Three Career Episodes
• Summary Statement for the nominated category
• Ocial English language translaons of above
documents where applicable
Please upload each document separately (a document
might consist of more than one page. DO NOT upload
each page of the document separately).
The documents listed above must be colour scans
of the original documents.
Please DO NOT submit the following:
• Cered copy of an original document
• Black and white scans
• Scan of photocopy
• Low resoluon scans. All scans must have a
resoluon of at least 300 dpi
• Please refrain from uploading a document mulple
mes.
Processing will be delayed if any of the above is
submied.
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Professional Engineer
Summary Statement
Th
ese are the competency Units and Elements. These elements must be addressed in the Summary Statement. If
you are applying for assessment as a Professional Engineer, you will need to download this page from our
website, complete it and lodge it with your application. For details, refer to the Appendix, Pages 32–36.
Competency Element A brief summary of how you have
applied the element
Paragraph number in the career
episode(s) where the element is
addressed
PE1 KNOWLEDGE AND SKILL BASE
PE1.1 Comprehensive, theory based understanding of
the underpinning natural and physical sciences and the
engineering fundamentals applicable to the engineering
discipline.
PE1.2 Conceptual understanding of the mathemacs,
numerical analysis, stascs, and computer and
informaon sciences which underpin the engineering
discipline.
PE1.3 In-depth understanding of specialist bodies of
knowledge within the engineering discipline.
PE1.4 Discernment of knowledge development and
research direcons within the engineering discipline.
PE1.5 Knowledge of contextual factors impacng
the engineering discipline.
PE1.6 Understanding of the scope, principles,
norms, accountabilies and bounds of contemporary
engineering pracce in the specic discipline.
PE2 ENGINEERING APPLICATION ABILITY
PE2.1 Applicaon of established engineering methods
to complex engineering problem solving.
PE2.2 Fluent applicaon of engineering techniques,
tools and resources.
PE2.3 Applicaon of systemac engineering synthesis
and design processes.
PE2.4 Applicaon of systemac approaches to the
conduct and management of engineering projects.
PE3 PROFESSIONAL AND
PERSONAL ATTRIBUTES
PE3.1 Ethical conduct and professional accountability.
PE3.2 Eecve oral and wrien communicaon
in professional and lay domains.
PE3.3 Creave, innovave and pro-acve demeanor.
PE3.4 Professional use and management of informaon.
PE3.5 Orderly management of self and professional
conduct.
PE3.6 Eecve team membership and team leadership.
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Engineering Technologist
Summary Statement
Th
ese are the competency Units and Elements. These elements must be addressed in the Summary Statement.
If you are applying for assessment as an Engineering Technologist, you will need to download this page from
our website, complete it, and lodge it with your application. For details, refer to the Appendix, Pages 37–41.
Competency Element A brief summary of how you have
applied the element
Paragraph number in the career
episode(s) where the element is
addressed
ET1 KNOWLEDGE AND SKILL BASE
ET1.1 Systemac, theory based understanding of the
underpinning natural and physical sciences and the
engineering fundamentals applicable to the technology
domain.
ET1.2 Conceptual understanding of the, mathemacs,
numerical analysis, stascs, and computer and
informaon sciences which underpin the technology.
ET1.3 In-depth understanding of specialist bodies of
knowledge within the technology domain.
ET1.4 Discernment of knowledge development within
the technology domain.
ET1.5 Knowledge of contextual factors impacng the
technology domain.
ET1.6 Understanding of the scope, principles,
norms, accountabilies and bounds of contemporary
engineering pracce in the technology domain.
ET2 ENGINEERING APPLICATION ABILITY
ET2.1 Application of established engineering methods
to broadly-defined problem solving within the
technology domain.
ET2.2 Applicaon of engineering techniques, tools
and resources within the technology domain.
ET2.3 Applicaon of systemac synthesis and design
processes within the technology domain.
ET2.4 Applicaon of systemac approaches to the
conduct and management of projects within the
technology.
ET3
PROFESSIONAL AND PERSONAL ATTRIBUTES
ET3.1 Ethical conduct and professional accountability.
ET3.2 Eecve oral and wrien communicaon
in professional and lay domains.
ET3.3 Creave, innovave and pro-acve demeanor.
ET3.4 Professional use and management of informaon.
ET3.5 Orderly management of self and professional
conduct.
ET3.6 Eecve team membership and team leadership.
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Engineering Associate
Summary Statement
Th
ese are the competency Units and Elements. These elements must be addressed in the Summary Statement.
If you are applying for assessment as an Engineering Associate, you will need to download this page from our
website, complete it, and lodge it with your application. For details, refer to the Appendix, Pages 42–46.
Competency Element A brief summary of how you have
applied the element
Paragraph number in the career
episode(s) where the element is
addressed
EA1 KNOWLEDGE AND SKILL BASE
EA1.1 Descripve, formula-based understanding of
the underpinning natural and physical sciences and the
engineering fundamentals applicable to the pracce area.
EA1.2 Procedural-level understanding of the mathemacs,
numerical analysis, stascs, and computer and informaon
sciences which underpin the pracce area.
EA1.3 In-depth praccal knowledge and skills within
specialist sub-disciplines of the pracce area.
EA1.4 Discernment of engineering developments within
the pracce area.
EA1.5 Knowledge of contextual factors impacng the
pracce area.
EA1.6 Understanding of the scope, principles,
norms, accountabilies and bounds of contemporary
engineering pracce in the area of pracce.
EA2 ENGINEERING APPLICATION ABILITY
EA2.1 Applicaon of established technical and
praccal methods to the soluon of well-dened
engineering problems.
EA2.2 Applicaon of technical and praccal
techniques, tools and resources to well-dened
engineering problems.
EA2.3 Applicaon of systemac design processes to
well-dened engineering problems.
EA2.4 Applicaon of systemac project management
processes.
EA3 PROFESSIONAL AND PERSONAL ATTRIBUTES
EA3.1 Ethical conduct and professional accountability.
EA3.2 Eecve oral and wrien communicaon
in professional and lay domains.
EA3.3 Creave, innovave and pro-acve demeanor.
EA3.4 Professional use and management of informaon.
EA3.5 Orderly management of self and professional
conduct.
EA3.6 Eecve team membership and team leadership.
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Engineering Manager
Summary Statement
Th
ese are the competency Elements. These elements must be addressed in the Summary Statement. If you are
applying for assessment as an Engineering Manager, you will need to download this page from our website,
complete it, and lodge it with your application. For details, refer to the Appendix — Pages 47-48.
Competency Element A brief summary of how you have
applied the element
Paragraph number in the career
episode(s) where the element is
addressed
EM1.1 Contributes to engineering business strategies.
EM1.2 Develops client relaonships.
EM1.3 Manages the implementaon of engineering
plans within the business.
EM1.4 Manages resources.
EM1.5 Manages people.
EM1.6 Manages suppliers.
EM1.7 Manages business informaon.
EM1.8 Monitors engineering business performance.
Secon D
Addional
Assessment
Services
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Secon D
Introducon
The addional assessment services are generally ONLY
of interest to the following clients:
•
Applicants that need a skills assessment completed
urgently and/or;
•
Applicants who hold an overseas PhD and/or;
• Applicants who have received work experience in
their nominated occupaon or a closely related
occupaon.
Applicants can apply for one or all of the above services
as required.
Please Note:
Engineers Australia does NOT award the points for
migraon. Points are issued by the Department
of Immigraon and Border Protecon in relaon
to your applicaon for skilled migraon NOT by
Engineers Australia as part of your migraon skills
assessment.
1. Fast Track
Applicants that need a skills assessment completed
urgently can
apply for the Fast Track service. Fast Track
applications will be assigned to an assessor within the
timeframe advertised on our website, from receipt of
payment. The timeframe for receiving an outcome
depends solely on the quality of the lodged application.
Engineers Australia will not be responsible for the length
of time taken to finalise incorrect/incomplete
applications.
The Fast Track service is also available to applicants who
have already submitted an online application via this link.
Please note that the end of year office close-down will
impact the Fast Track service. Files will not be processed
during the close-down period. The close-down dates will
be displayed on the website. Fast Track applications will
be processed as a priority when work resumes.
2.
Online Applicaon Process
Please upload colour scans of original documents
pertaining to the relevant skilled emplo
yment and/
or PhD online. We will not accept documents with
poor resoluon (should be at least 300dpi). Cered
documents are not accepted for online applicaons.
3. Assessment of Overseas PhD in
Engineering
The standard assessment WILL INCLUDE an opinion on
the comparable relevant Australian level qualicaon to
the client’s overseas qualicaon used in support of the
assessed outcome. However, where a client holds a PhD
degree which may not be required for the nominat
ed
outcome, then this addional assessing service may be
employed to idenfy the overseas PhD as comparable to
an Australian PhD.
Applicants who require this service will need to provide:
• relevant fee payment;
• colour scans of all original academic documentaon
(testamurs and transcripts, as applicable)
demonstrang that the qualicaon has been
awarded;
• a list of doctoral examiners and details;
• a list of publicaons made during and aer the
doctoral program;
• a thesis abstract.
4. Relevant Skilled Employment
Applicants who require this service must submit colour
scans of original documentary evidence.
Pr
imary Documents: documents from your
employer or client providing all the relevant
information and details with regards to your
employment.
The assessment of each employment period will be
based on both Primary and Secondary
Documents for
the entire period of employment. In regards to the
requirement for Secondary Documents, an applicant
can either provide 2 (2.1 and 2.2) or 3 (3.1 and 3.2)
(refer to the Employees table below for further
instructions).
4
.1 Documentary Evidence:
Se
condary Documents: third party documents
from sources independent to your employer or
client in support of each period of employment
claimed (documents from government departments
or any other government agency, for example:
income tax return, social security insurance reports,
registration certificate, work permit etc).
4.2 Skilled Employment Assessment for Employees:
4.3 Skilled Employment Assessment for Self-Employed:
The assessment of each self-employment period is
based on evidence. An applicant must provide both
Primary and Secondary Documents in support of the
entire period of self-employment (refer to the Self-
employed table below for further instructions).
4.4 Important Notes:
•
Work experience cannot be claimed before the completion
of the applicable qualification
•
Work experience should be paid at the market or salaried
rate for engineering professionals. Clients receiving
stipends, living allowances or scholarships will not
generally be considered to be salaried
Whilst 'full-time' work constitutes 20 hours per week
or more, this must be regular employment and must
not include long periods of unpaid leave
•
In general, research activities undertaken as a Ph.D/
M.Phil student, or work experience as a Research
Assistant/Fellow whilst undertaking a Ph.D/M.Phil
cannot be considered as relevant skilled employment
•
Military Service compulsory or exemption certificate
must be provided if the service is mandatory in your
country
•
The decision on assessing the relevant skilled
employment will be made on basis of information
given in the original application, NO further
correspondence will be made if there are any
shortcomings
•
Any misleading information will result in an
unsuccessful outcome and sanctions will apply. See
Item 10 of Section A
•
Income tax return acknowledgement receipt should
be issued within 12 months after the end of each
financial year
•
4.5 Recognition:
In determining whether an applicant's skilled
employment is closely related to their nominated
occupation, the assessment by Engineers Australia
will take into consideration the occupations within
one unit group classified under the ANZSCO
Classification of Occupations. Be aware that only
work experience gained after completion of
the qualification supporting your nominated
occupation will be recognised.
Please be aware that only successful Relevant
Skilled Employment assessments will be recorded in
the final outcome letter.
If your employment was not included in the
outcome it may because of one or multiple reasons
as listed in paragraph 4.4 above (Important Notes).
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In general, employment as a university lecturer,
university demonstrator and university tutor, are not
considered as relevant skilled employment in the
engineering profession
•
RelevantSkilled Employment Assessment
(Both Primary and Secondary documents are required)
Employees
Option 1 Option 2
Primary Documents
Reference letter on official company letterhead to:
1.1 Indicate 5 main duties undertaken, job title or position;
1.2 Indicate the exact period of employment (commencement and
completion dates);
1.3 Be endorsed by the manager/direct supervisor/HR Section (with
official telephone & email address);
1.4 Indicate full or part-time with number of work hours;
1.5 Pay rate;
1.6 Include the company’s stamp if applicable.
Secondary Documents (either 2 OR 3)
2.1 Income Tax Return Acknowledgement or Receipt;
2.2 Social Security Insurance/ Superfund/ Provident Fund/ Retirement
Contribution Statement Reports.
OR
3.1 Work Permit/ Residence Permit;
3.2 Official Contract Document from the Ministry of Labour etc..
(indicating your wage, title and employer’s name).
Note: 2.1 and 2.2 OR 3.1 and 3.2 must cover the entire employment
period and indicate your employer’s name
Primary Documents
Reference letter on official letterhead to:
1.1 Indicate the exact period of employment (commencement and
completion dates);
1.2 Be endorsed by the manager/ direct supervisor/ HR Section (with
official telephone & email address);
Plus, either 1.3 or 1.4
1.3 Job Offer Letter on employer’s official letterhead with main duties. OR
1.4 Annual Performance Review on employer’s official letterhead with
main duties.
Secondary Documents (either 2 OR 3)
2.1 Income Tax Return Acknowledgement or Receipt;
2.2 Social Security Insurance/ Superfund/ Provident Fund/ Retirement
Contribution Statement Reports.
OR
3.1 Work Permit/ Residence Permit;
3.2 Official Contract Document from the Ministry of Labour etc..
(indicating your wage, title and employer’s name).
Note: 2.1 and 2.2 OR 3.1 and 3.2 must cover the entire employment
period and indicate your employer’s name
NOTES
Refer to
the booklet for more details
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RelevantSkilled Employment Assessment
(Both Primary and Secondary documents are required)
Self-employed
Primary Documents
• Letters from contracting employers or clients on offi
cial letterheads stating:
• the employer’s name
• the main engineering duties or tasks performed
• exact period of employment (date of commencement and termination)
• number of hours worked per week
• salary level or pay rate
• Invoices issued for service rendered (with your business’s stamp if applicable)
• Number of staff employed and their occupations & the Organisational charts (if applicable)
Secondary Documents
• Business Registration (as engineering company) issued by the relevant authority
• Business tax report covering the entire period of the business operation
• Bank Statement showing all your business transactions
• Payroll tax receipts or acknowledgement on the wages paid to employees (if applicable)
• Personal income tax return acknowledgement (if applicable)
• Social Security Insurance/Retirement Contribution/Superannuation Contribution Reports
covering the period of self-employment (if applicable)
• Business Financial Report covering the entire period of the business operation (if applicable)
• Compliance letter or Practice certificate issued by the relevant authority (if applicable)
NOTES
Refer to
the booklet for more details
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Appendix
Detailed descripon of
competency elements for
each occupaonal category
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Appendix
Professional Engineer:
General Descripon Role
Professional Engineers are required to take responsibility for engineering projects and programs in the most
far-reaching sense. This includes the reliable funconing of all materials, components, sub-systems and technologies
used; their integraon to form a complete, sustainable and self-consistent system; and all interacons between the
technical system and the context within which it funcons. The laer includes understanding the requirements of
clients, wide ranging stakeholders and of society as a whole; working to opmise social, environmental and economic
outcomes over the full lifeme of the engineering product or program; interacng eecvely with other disciplines,
professions and people; and ensuring that the engineering contribuon is properly integrated into the totality of the
undertaking. Professional Engineers are responsible for interpreng technological possibilies to society, business and
government; and for ensuring as far as possible that policy decisions are properly informed by such possibilies and
consequences, and that costs, risks and limitaons are properly understood as the desirable outcomes.
Professional Engineers are responsible for bringing knowledge to bear from mulple sources to develop soluons to
complex problems and issues, for ensuring that technical and non-technical consideraons are properly integrated,
and for managing risk as well as sustainability issues. While the outcomes of engineering have physical forms, the
work of Professional Engineers is predominantly intellectual in nature. In a technical sense, Professional Engineers
are primarily concerned with the advancement of technologies and with the development of new technologies and
their applicaons through innovaon, creavity and change. Professional Engineers may conduct research concerned
with advancing the science of engineering and with developing new principles and technologies within a broad
engineering discipline. Alternavely, they may contribute to connual improvement in the pracce of engineering,
and in devising and updang the codes and standards that govern it.
Professional Engineers have a parcular responsibility for ensuring that all aspects of a project are soundly based in
theory and fundamental principle, and for understanding clearly how new developments relate to established pracce
and experience and to other disciplines with which they may interact. One hallmark of a professional is the capacity
to break new ground in an informed, responsible and sustainable fashion.
Professional Engineers may lead or manage teams appropriate to these acvies, and may establish their own
companies or move into senior management roles in engineering and related enterprises.
See Summary Statement in Sec
tion C
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4
Appendix
Professional Engineer:
Units and Elements of Competency
1. PE1 Knowledge and Skill Base
PE 1.1 Comprehensive, theory based understanding of
the underpinning natural and physical sciences and
the engineeri
ng fundamentals applicable to the
engineering discipline.
a. Engages with the engineering discipline at a
phenomenological level, applying sciences and
engineering fundamentals to systemac invesgaon,
interpretaon, analysis and innovave soluon
of complex problems and broader aspects of
engineering pracce.
PE 1.2 Conceptual understanding of the mathematics,
n
umerical analysis, statistics, and computer and
information sciences which underpin the engineering
discipline.
a.
Develops and uently applies relevant invesgaon
analysis, interpretaon, assessment, characterisaon,
predicon, evaluaon, modelling, decision making,
measurement, evaluaon, knowledge management
and communicaon tools and techniques pernent to
the engineering discipline.
PE 1.3 In-depth understanding of specialist bodies of
k
nowledge within the engineering discipline.
a.
Prociently applies advanced technical knowledge
and skills in at least one specialist pracce domain of
the engineering discipline.
PE 1.4 Discernment of knowledge development and
research directions within the engineering discipline.
a. Idenes and crically appraises current
developments, advanced technologies,
emerging issues and interdisciplinary linkages
in at least one specialist pracce domain of the
engineering discipline.
b. Interprets and applies selected research literature
to inform engineering applicaon in at least one
specialist domain of the engineering discipline.
PE 1.5 Knowledge of contextual factors impacting
the engineering discipline.
a. Idenes and understands the interacons between
engineering systems and people in the social,
cultural, environmental, commercial, legal and
polical contexts in which they operate, including
both the posive role of engineering in sustainable
development and the potenally adverse impacts of
engineering acvity in the engineering discipline.
b. Is aware of the founding principles of human factors
relevant to the engineering discipline.
c. Is aware of the fundamentals of business and
enterprise management.
d. Idenes the structure, roles and capabilies of the
engineering workforce.
e. Appreciates the issues associated with internaonal
engineering pracce and global operang contexts.
PE 1.6 Understanding of the scope, principles, norms,
accountabilities and bounds of contemporary
e
ngineering practice in the specific discipline.
a. Applies systemac principles of engineering design
relevant to the engineering discipline.
b. Appreciates the basis and relevance of standards and
codes of pracce, as well as legislave and statutory
requirements applicable to the engineering discipline.
c. Appreciates the principles of safety engineering,
risk management and the health and safety
responsibilies of the professional engineer,
including legislave requirements applicable to the
engineering discipline.
d. Appreciates the social, environmental and economic
principles of sustainable engineering pracce.
e. Understands the fundamental principles of
engineering project management as a basis for
planning, organising and managing resources.
f. Appreciates the formal structures and methodologies
of systems engineering as a holisc basis for
managing complexity and sustainability in
engineering pracce.
Notes:
1. ‘engineering discipline’ means the broad branch
of engineering (civil, electrical, mechanical, etc.)
as typically represented by the Engineers
Australia Colleges.
2. ‘specialist pracce domain’ means the specic area
of knowledge and pracce within an engineering
discipline, such as geotechnics, power systems,
manufacturing, etc.
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2. PE2 Engineering Applicaon Ability
PE 2.1 Application of
established engineering methods
to complex engineering problem solving.
a. Idenes, discerns and characterises salient issues,
determines and analyses causes and eects, juses
and applies appropriate simplifying assumpons,
predicts performance and behaviour, synthesises
soluon strategies and develops substanated
conclusions.
b. Ensures that all aspects of an engineering acvity
are soundly based on fundamental principles - by
diagnosing, and taking appropriate acon with data,
calculaons, results, proposals, processes, pracces,
and documented informaon that may be ill-founded,
illogical, erroneous, unreliable or unrealisc.
c. Competently addresses engineering problems
involving uncertainty, ambiguity, imprecise
informaon and wide-ranging and somemes
conicng technical and non-technical factors.
d. Parons problems, processes or systems into
manageable elements for the purposes of analysis,
modelling or design and then re-combines to form
a whole, with the integrity and performance of the
overall system as the paramount consideraon.
e. Conceptualises alternave engineering approaches
and evaluates potenal outcomes against appropriate
criteria to jusfy an opmal soluon choice.
f. Crically reviews and applies relevant standards
and codes of pracce underpinning the engineering
discipline and nominated specialisaons.
g. Idenes, quanes, migates and manages
technical, health, environmental, safety and other
contextual risks associated with engineering
applicaon in the designated engineering discipline.
h. Interprets and ensures compliance with relevant
legislave and statutory requirements applicable to
the engineering discipline.
i. Invesgates complex problems using research- based
knowledge and research methods.
PE 2.2 Fluent application of engineering techniques,
tools and resources.
a. Prociently idenes, selects and applies the
materials, components, devices, systems, processes,
resources, plant and equipment relevant to the
engineering discipline.
b. Constructs or selects and applies from a qualitave
descripon of a phenomenon, process, system,
component or device a mathemacal, physical or
computaonal model based on fundamental scienc
principles and jusable simplifying assumpons.
c. Determines properes, performance, safe working
limits, failure modes, and other inherent parameters
of materials, components and systems relevant to the
engineering discipline.
d. Applies a wide range of engineering tools for analysis,
simulaon, visualisaon, synthesis and design,
including assessing the accuracy and limitaons of
such tools, and validaon of their results.
e. Applies formal systems engineering methods to
address the planning and execuon of complex,
problem solving and engineering projects.
f. Designs and conducts experiments, analyses
and interprets result data and formulates reliable
conclusions.
g. Analyses sources of error in applied models and
experiments; eliminates, minimises or compensates
for such errors; quanes signicance of errors to
any conclusions drawn.
h. Safely applies laboratory, test and experimental
procedures appropriate to the engineering discipline.
i. Understands the need for systemac management of
the acquision, commissioning, operaon, upgrade,
monitoring and maintenance of engineering plant,
facilies, equipment and systems.
j. Understands the role of quality management systems,
tools and processes within a culture of connuous
improvement.
PE 2.3 Application of
systematic engineering synthesis
and design processes.
a. Prociently applies technical knowledge and open
ended problem solving skills as well as appropriate
tools and resources to design components, elements,
systems, plant, facilies and/or processes to sasfy
user requirements.
b. Addresses broad contextual constraints such as
social, cultural, environmental, commercial, legal
polical and human factors, as well as health, safety
and sustainability imperaves as an integral part of
the design process.
c. Executes and leads a whole systems design cycle
approach including tasks such as:
• determining client requirements and idenfying
the impact of relevant contextual factors, including
business planning and cosng targets;
• systemacally addressing sustainability criteria;
• working within projected development, producon
and implementaon constraints;
• elicing, scoping and documenng the required
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outcomes of the design task and dening
acceptance criteria;
• idenfying assessing and managing technical,
health and safety risks integral to the design
process;
• wring engineering specicaons, that fully sasfy
the formal requirements;
• ensuring compliance with essenal engineering
standards and codes of pracce;
• paroning the design task into appropriate
modular, funconal elements; that can be
separately addressed and subsequently integrated
through dened interfaces;
• idenfying and analysing possible design
approaches and jusfying an opmal approach;
• developing and compleng the design using
appropriate engineering principles, tools, and
processes;
• integrang funconal elements to form a coherent
design soluon;
• quanfying the materials, components, systems,
equipment, facilies, engineering resources
and operang arrangements needed for
implementaon of the soluon;
• checking the design soluon for each element
and the integrated system against the engineering
specicaons;
• devising and documenng tests that will verify
performance of the elements and the integrated
realisaon;
• prototyping/implemenng the design soluon and
verifying performance against specicaon;
• documenng, commissioning and reporng the
design outcome.
d. Is aware of the accountabilies of the professional
engineer in relaon to the ‘design authority’ role.
PE 2.4 Application of systematic approaches to the
conduct and management of
engineering projects.
a. Contributes to and/or manages complex engineering
project acvity, as a member and/or as the leader of
an engineering team.
b. Seeks out the requirements and associated resources
and realiscally assesses the scope, dimensions,
scale of eort and indicave costs of a complex
engineering project.
c.
Accommodates relevant contextual issues into all
phases of engineering project w
ork, including the
fundamentals of business planning and financial
management.
d. Prociently applies basic systems engineering and/
or project management tools and processes to the
planning and execuon of project work, targeng the
delivery of a signicant outcome to a professional
standard.
e. Is aware of the need to plan and quanfy
performance over the full life-cycle of a project,
managing engineering performance within the overall
implementaon context.
f. Demonstrates commitment to sustainable
engineering pracces and the achievement of
sustainable outcomes in all facets of engineering
project work.
3. PE3 Professional and Personal Aributes
PE 3.1 Ethical conduct and professional accountability.
a. Demonstrates commitment to uphold the Engineers
Australia - Code of Ethics, and established norms of
professional conduct pernent to the engineering
discipline.
b. Understands the need for ‘due-diligence’ in
cercaon, compliance and risk management
processes.
c. Understands the accountabilies of the professional
engineer and the broader engineering team for the
safety of other people and for protecon of the
environment.
d. Is aware of the fundamental principles of intellectual
property rights and protecon.
PE 3.2 Effective oral and written communication
in professional and lay domains.
a. Is procient in listening, speaking, reading and wring
English, including:
• comprehending crically and fairly the viewpoints
of others;
• expressing informaon eecvely and succinctly,
issuing instrucon, engaging in discussion,
presenng arguments and juscaon, debang
and negoang - to technical and non-technical
audiences and using textual, diagrammac,
pictorial and graphical media best suited to the
context;
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• represenng an engineering posion, or the
engineering profession at large to the broader
community;
• appreciang the impact of body language,
personal behaviour and other non-verbal
communicaon processes, as well as the
fundamentals of human social behaviour and their
cross-cultural dierences.
b.
Prepares high quality engineering documents such as
progress and project reports, reports of invesgaons
and feasibility studies, proposals, specicaons,
design records, drawings, technical descripons and
presentaons pernent to the engineering discipline.
PE 3.3 Creative, innovative and pro-active demeanour.
a.
Applies creative approaches to identify and develop
alternative concepts, solutions an
d procedures,
appropriately challenges engineering practices from
technical and non-technical viewpoints; identifies
new technological opportunities.
b.
Seeks out new developments in the engineering
discipline and specialisaons and applies fundamental
knowledge and systemac processes to evaluate and
report potenal.
c. Is aware of broader fields of
science,engineering,
technology and commerce from which new
ideas and interfaces may be drawn and readily
engages with professionals from these fields to
exchange ideas.
PE 3.4 Professional use and management of information.
a. Is procient in locang and ulising informaon
— including accessing, systemacally searching,
analysing, evaluang and referencing relevant
published works and data; is procient in the use of
indexes, bibliographic databases and other search
facilies.
b. Crically assesses the accuracy, reliability and
authencity of informaon.
c. Is aware of common document idencaon, tracking
and control procedures.
PE 3.5 Orderly management of se
lf and professional
conduct.
a. Demonstrates commitment to crical self-review and
performance evaluaon against appropriate criteria
as a primary means of tracking personal development
needs and achievements.
b. Understands the importance of being a member of
a professional and intellectual community, learning
from its knowledge and standards, and contribung
to their maintenance and advancement.
c. Demonstrates commitment to life-long learning and
professional development.
d. Manages me and processes eecvely, priorises
compeng demands to achieve personal, career and
organisaonal goals and objecves.
e. Thinks crically and applies an appropriate balance
of logic and intellectual criteria to analysis, judgment
and decision making.
f. Presents a professional image in all circumstances,
including relaons with clients, stakeholders, as well
as with professional and technical colleagues across
wide ranging disciplines.
PE 3.6 Effective team membership and team leadership.
a. Understands the fundamentals of team dynamics and
leadership.
b. Funcons as an eecve member or leader of diverse
engineering teams, including those with mul-level,
mul-disciplinary and mul-cultural dimensions.
c. Earns the trust and condence of colleagues through
competent and mely compleon of tasks.
d. Recognises the value of alternave and diverse
viewpoints, scholarly advice and the importance of
professional networking.
e. Condently pursues and discerns expert assistance
and professional advice.
f. Takes iniave and fulls the leadership role whilst
respecng the agreed roles of others.
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Engineering Technologist:
General Descripon of Role
Engineering Technologists normally operate within broadly-dened technical environments, and undertake a wide
range of funcons and responsibilies. They are oen specialists in the theory and pracce of a parcular branch of
engineering technology or engineering-related technology (the technology domain), and specically in its applicaon,
adaptaon or management, in a variety of contexts. Their experse oen lies in familiarity with the current state
of development of a technology domain and most recent applicaons of the technology. Within their specialist
eld, their experse may be at a high level, and fully equivalent to that of a Professional Engineer. Engineering
Technologists may not however, be expected to exercise the same breadth of perspecve as Professional Engineers,
or carry the same wide-ranging responsibilies for stakeholder interacons, for system integraon,
and for synthesising overall approaches to complex situaons and complex engineering problems.
The work of Engineering Technologists combines the need for a strong understanding of praccal situaons and
applicaons, with the intellectual challenge of keeping abreast of leading-edge developments as a specialist in a
technology domain and how these relate to established pracce. For this purpose Engineering Technologists need a
strong understanding of scienc and engineering principles and a well-developed capacity for analysis.
The work of Engineering Technologists is most oen concerned with applying current and emerging technologies,
oen in new contexts; or with the applicaon of established principles in the development of new pracce.
They may also contribute to the advancement of technology.
Engineering Technologists frequently will take responsibility for engineering projects, services, funcons and facilies
within a technology domain,
for specic interacons with other aspects of an overall operang context and for managing the contribuons of their
specialist work to a broader engineering system or soluon. In these roles, Engineering Technologists must focus on
sustainable soluons and pracces which opmise technical, social, environmental and economic outcomes within
the technology domain and
over a whole systems life cycle. They will have an inmate understanding
of the standards and codes of pracce that underpin the technology
domain and ensure that technology outcomes comply with statutory requirements. Engineering Technologists are
required to interact eecvely with Professional Engineers and Engineering Associates, with other professionals,
tradespersons, clients, stakeholders and society in general,
to ensure that technology outcomes and developments fully integrate with
the overall system and context.
Engineering Technologists must ensure that all aspects of a technological product or operaon are soundly based
in theory and fundamental principle. They must understand how new developments relate to their specic eld of
experse. They will be oen required to interpret technological possibilies,
to invesgate interfaces, limitaons, consequences, costs and risks.
Engineering Technologists may lead teams responsible for the implementaon, operaon, quality assurance, safety,
management, and maintenance of projects, plant, facilies, or processes within specialist pracce area(s) of the
technology domain. Some Engineering Technologists may establish their own companies or may move into senior
management roles in engineering and related enterprises, employing Professional Engineers and other specialists
where appropriate.
See Summary Statement in Sec
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Engineering Technologist:
Unit and Elements of Competency
1. ET1 Knowledge and Skill Base
ET 1.1 Systematic, theory based understanding of the
un
derpinning natural and physical sciences and the
engineering fundamentals applicable to the
technology domain.
a. Engages with the technology domain at a
phenomenological level, applying sciences and
engineering fundamentals to systemac invesgaon,
interpretaon, analysis and innovave soluon
of broadly-dened problems and engineering
technology pracce.
ET 1.2 Conceptual understanding of the, mathematics,
nu
merical analysis, statistics, and computer and
information sciences which underpin the technology
domain.
a. Fluently applies relevant invesgaon, analysis,
interpretaon, assessment, characterisaon,
predicon, evaluaon, modelling, decision making,
measurement, evaluaon, knowledge management
and communicaon tools and techniques pernent
to the technology domain.
ET 1.3 In-depth understanding of specialist bodies of
kn
owledge within the technology domain.
a. Prociently applies advanced technical knowledge
and skills to deliver engineering outcomes in
specialist area(s) of the technology domain and
associated industry, commercial and community
sectors.
ET 1.4 Discernment of knowledge development within
the technology
domain.
a. Idenes and crically appraises current
developments and emerging issues professionally
disseminated in specialist pracce area(s) of the
technology domain.
ET 1.5 Knowledge of contextual factors impacting
the technology domain.
a. Idenes and understands the interacons between
engineering technologies and people in the social,
cultural, environmental, commercial, legal and
polical contexts in which they operate, including
both the posive role of engineering in sustainable
development and the potenally adverse impacts of
engineering acvity in the technology domain.
b. Is aware of the fundamentals of business and
enterprise management.
c. Idenes the structure, roles and capabilies of
the engineering workforce. Appreciates the issues
associated with internaonal engineering pracce
acvies and a global operang context.
ET 1.6 Understanding of the scope, principles, norms,
accountabilities and bounds of contemporary
en
gineering practice in the technology domain.
a. Applies systemac principles of engineering design
relevant to the technology domain.
b. Understands the standards and codes of pracce,
as well as the legislave and statutory requirements
associated with specialist pracce area(s) of the
technology domain.
c. Appreciates the principles of safety engineering,
risk management and the health and safety
responsibilies of the engineering praconer,
applicable to the technology domain.
d. Appreciates the social, environmental and economic
principles of sustainable engineering pracce.
e. Understands the fundamental principles of
engineering project management and systems
as a basis for planning, organising and managing
resources.
Notes:
1. ‘technology domain’ means the specic technological
eld (e.g. geotechnics, power systems, manufacturing,
etc.) within a branch of engineering (e.g. civil, electrical,
mechanical, etc.) or engineering-related discipline.
2. ‘specialist pracce area’ means the specic area of
knowledge and pracce within a technology domain,
such as slope instability and stabilisaon, power systems
protecon, industrial automaon, etc.
2. ET2 Engineering Applicaon Ability
ET 2.1 Application of established engineering methods to
b
roadly-defined problem solving within the technology
domain.
a. Idenes, discerns and characterises salient issues,
determines and analyses causes and eects, juses
and applies appropriate simplifying assumpons,
predicts performance and behaviour, synthesises
soluon strategies and develops substanated
conclusions.
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b. Ensures that the applicaon of specialist technologies
are soundly based on fundamental principles — by
diagnosing, and taking appropriate acon with data,
calculaons, results, proposals, processes, pracces,
and documented informaon that may be ill-founded,
illogical, erroneous, unreliable or unrealisc.
c. Within specialist pracce area(s), competently
addresses engineering technology problems involving
uncertainty, ambiguity, imprecise informaon and
wide-ranging and somemes conicng technical and
non-technical factors.
d. Recognises problems which have component
elements and/or implicaons beyond the engineering
technologist’s personal experse and correctly
idenes the need for supplementary professional
input.
e. Manages conicng issues associated with
interfacing, integrang and adapng specialist
technologies where complex problems, processes or
systems that have been paroned into manageable
elements for the purposes of analysis, modelling,
design, prototyping, commissioning or tesng, are
recombined.
f. Crically evaluates alternave implementaon
approaches using specialist engineering technologies
and evaluates potenal outcomes against appropriate
criteria to jusfy an opmal soluon choice.
g. Interprets, applies and veries compliance with
relevant standards and codes of pracce as well as
legislave and statutory requirements underpinning
specialist pracce area(s) of the technology domain.
h. Idenes, quanes, migates and manages
technical, health, environmental, safety and other
contextual risks associated with engineering
applicaon in the technology domain.
i. Accesses appropriate professional knowledge
resources as input to systemac problem
invesgaon.
ET 2.2 Application of engineering techniques, too
ls
and resourc
es within the technology
domain.
a.
Proficiently identifies, selects and applies the
materials, compone
nts, devices, systems,
processes, resources, plant and equipment
relevant to the technology domain.
b.
Understands the principles, limitaons and accuracy
of mathemacal, physical or computaonal modelling.
c.
Selects and applies such models in the representaon
of phenomenon, processes, systems, components or
devices.
d.
Determines properties, performance, safe working
limits, failure modes, and other inher
ent parameters of
materials, components and systems relevant to
specialist areas(s) of the technology domain.
e.
Applies a wide range of engineering tools for analysis,
simulaon, visualisaon, synthesis and design,
assesses accuracy and limitaons of such tools, and
validates results.
f.
Designs and conducts experiments, analyses
and interprets result data and formulates reliable
conclusions.
g.
Analyses sources of error in applied models and
experiments; eliminates, minimises or compensates
for such errors; quanes signicance of errors to
any conclusions drawn.
h.
Safely applies laboratory, test and experimental
procedures appropriate to the technology domain.
i.
Appreciates the need for systemac approaches
to acquision, commissioning, operaon, upgrade,
monitoring and maintenance of engineering plant,
facilies, equipment and systems.
j.
Understands the role of quality management systems,
tools and processes within a culture of connuous
improvement.
ET 2.3 Application of systematic synthesis and
design processes within the technology domain.
a. Prociently applies technological knowledge and
problem solving skills as well as established tools and
procedures to design components, system elements,
plant, facilies and/or processes to meet technical
specicaons and performance criteria.
b.
Accommodates contextual factors that impact the
technology domain, and in parcular to ensure that
health, safety and sustainability imperaves are
addressed as an integral part of the design process.
c. Engages with a whole systems design cycle, including
tasks such as:
• determining client requirements and idenfying
the impact of relevant contextual factors, including
business planning and cosng targets;
• systemacally addressing sustainability criteria;
• working within projected development, producon
and implementaon constraints;
• elicing, scoping and documenng the required
outcomes of the design task and dening
acceptance criteria;
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• idenfying assessing and managing technical,
health and safety risks integral to the design
process;
•
wring engineering specicaons, that fully sasfy
the formal requirements;
•
ensuring compliance with essenal engineering
standards and codes of pracce;
•
partitioning the design task into appropriate modular,
functional elements; that can be subsequently
intergrated through defined interfaces;
• idenfying and analysing possible design
approaches and jusfying an opmal approach;
• developing and compleng the design using
appropriate engineering principles, tools, and
processes;
• integrang funconal elements to form a coherent
design soluon;
• quanfying the materials, components, systems,
equipment, facilies, engineering resources
and operang arrangements needed for
implementaon of the soluon;
• checking the design soluon for each element
and the integrated system against the engineering
specicaons;
• devising and documenng tests that will verify
performance of the elements and the integrated
realisaon;
•
prototyping/implementing the design solution and
verifying performance against s
pecicaon;
•
documenting, commissioning and reporting the
design outcome.
d. Is aware of the accountabilies of the members
of the engineering team in relaon to the ‘design
authority’ role.
ET 2.4 Application of systematic approaches to the
conduct and management of projects within the
technology domain.
a. Contributes to and/or manages broadly-dened
technological project acvity, as a member of the
engineering team and/or as leader of a specialist
technological team.
b. Seeks out the requirements and associated resources
and realiscally assesses the scope, dimensions, scale
of eort and indicave costs of a broadly-dened
technological project.
c. Accommodates relevant contextual issues into all
phases of project work, including the fundamentals of
business planning and nancial management.
d. Prociently applies basic systems engineering and/
or project management tools and processes to the
planning and execuon of project work, targeng the
delivery of a signicant outcome to a professional
standard.
e. Is aware of the need to plan and quanfy
performance over the full life-cycle of a project,
managing performance outcomes within the overall
implementaon context.
f. Demonstrates commitment to sustainable
engineering pracces and the achievement of
sustainable outcomes in all facets of technological
project work.
3. ET3 Professional and Personal Aributes
ET 3.1 Ethical conduct and professional accountability.
a. Demonstrates commitment to uphold the
Engineers Australia - Code of Ethics, and established
norms of professional conduct pernent to the
technology domain.
b. Understands the need for ‘due-diligence’ in
cercaon, compliance and risk management
processes.
c. Understands the accountabilies of the engineering
technologist and the broader engineering team
for the safety of other people and for protecon of
the environment.
d. Is aware of the fundamental principles of intellectual
property rights and protecon.
ET 3.2 Effective oral and written communication
in professional and lay domains.
a. Is procient in listening, speaking, reading and wring
English, including:
• comprehending crically and fairly the viewpoints
of others;
• expressing informaon eecvely and succinctly,
issuing instrucon, engaging in discussion,
presenng arguments and juscaon, debang
and negoang - to technical and non-technical
audiences and using textual, diagrammac,
pictorial and graphical media best suited to the
context;
• represenng an engineering technology posion
to professional colleagues, or to the broader
community;
• appreciang the impact of body language,
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personal behaviour and other non-verbal
communicaon processes, as well as the
fundamentals o
f human social behaviour and their
cross-cultural dierences.
b.
Prepares high quality engineering documents such as
progress and project reports, reports of invesgaons
and feasibility studies, proposals, specicaons,
design records, drawings, technical descripons and
presentaons pernent to the technology domain.
ET 3.3 Creative, innovative and pro-active demeanour.
a. Applies creave approaches to idenfy and develop
alternave concepts, soluons and procedures,
appropriately challenges engineering pracces from
technical and non-technical viewpoints; idenes
new technological opportunies.
b. Seeks out new developments in specialist area(s)
of the technology domain and applies fundamental
knowledge and systemac processes to evaluate and
report potenal.
c. Is aware of broader elds of technology, science,
engineering and commerce from which new
ideas and interfaces may be drawn and readily
engages with professionals from these elds to
exchange ideas.
ET 3.4 Professional use and management of information.
a. Is procient in locang and ulising informaon
- including accessing, systemacally searching,
analysing, evaluang and referencing relevant
published materials and data.
b. Crically assesses the accuracy, reliability and
authencity of informaon.
c. Is aware of common document idencaon, tracking
and control procedures.
ET 3.5 Orderly management of se
lf and professional
c
onduct.
a. Demonstrates commitment to crical self-review and
performance evaluaon against appropriate criteria
as a primary means of tracking personal development
needs and achievements.
b. Understands the importance of being a member of
a professional and intellectual community, learning
from its knowledge and standards, and contribung
to their maintenance and advancement.
c. Demonstrates commitment to life-long learning and
professional development.
d. Manages me and processes eecvely, priorises
compeng demands to achieve personal, career and
organisaonal goals and objecves.
e. Thinks crically and applies an appropriate balance
of logic and intellectual criteria to analysis, judgment
and decision making.
f. Presents a professional image in all circumstances,
including relaons with clients, stakeholders, as well
as with professional and technical colleagues across
wide ranging disciplines.
ET 3.6 Effective team membership and team leadership.
a. Understands the fundamentals of team dynamics and
leadership.
b. Funcons as an eecve member or leader of diverse
engineering teams, including those with mul-level,
mul-disciplinary and mul-cultural dimensions.
c. Earns the trust and condence of colleagues through
competent and mely compleon of tasks.
d. Recognises the value of alternave and diverse
viewpoints, scholarly advice and the importance of
professional networking.
e. Condently pursues and discerns expert assistance
and professional advice.
f. Takes iniave and fulls the leadership role whilst
respecng the agreed roles of others.
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Engineering Associate:
General Descripon of Role
Engineering Associates have a wide range of funcons within engineering enterprises and engineering teams.
Examples of their roles may include feasibility invesgaon, scoping, establishing criteria/performance measures,
assessing and reporng technical and procedural opons; design and development; component, resources and
materials sourcing and procurement; construcon, prototyping, manufacture, tesng, installaon, commissioning,
service provision and de-commissioning; tools, plant, equipment and facilies acquision, management, maintenance,
calibraon and upgrades; operaons management; procedures documentaon; presentaon and reporng;
maintenance systems design and management; project and facility management; quality assurance, cosng and
budget management; document control and quality assurance.
Engineering Associates are oen required to be closely familiar with standards and codes of pracce, and to
become expert in their interpretaon and applicaon to a wide variety of situaons. Many develop very extensive
experience of praccal installaons, and may well be more knowledgeable than Professional Engineers or Engineering
Technologists on detailed aspects of plant and equipment that can contribute very greatly to safety, cost or
eecveness in operaon.
In other instances, Engineering Associates may develop high levels of experse in aspects of design and development
processes. These might include, for example, the use of advanced soware to perform detailed design of structures,
mechanical components and systems, manufacturing or process plant, electrical and electronic equipment,
informaon and communicaons systems, and so on. Other examples might be in the construcon of experimental
or prototype equipment. Again, experienced operators in these areas oen develop detailed praccal knowledge and
experience complemenng the broader or more theorecal knowledge of others.
Engineering Associates need a good grounding in engineering science and the principles underlying their eld of
experse, to ensure that their knowledge and skills are portable across dierent applicaons and situaons within the
broad eld of pracce. Equipment, vendor or context-specic training in a parcular job is not sucient to guarantee
generic competency. Given a good knowledge base, however, Engineering Associates may build further on this
through high levels of training in parcular contexts and in relaon to parcular equipment. Aircra maintenance is an
excellent example.
The competencies of Engineering Associates equip them to cerfy the quality of engineering work and the condion
of equipment and systems in dened circumstances, laid down in recognised standards and codes of pracce.
Engineering Associates may lead or manage teams appropriate to these acvies. Some may establish their own
companies or may move into senior management roles in engineering and related enterprises, employing Professional
Engineers, Engineering Technologists, and other specialists where appropriate. In Australia, the term ‘para-
professional’ is frequently used to describe the Engineering Associate occupaon.
See Summary Statement in Sec
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Engineering Associate:
Units and Elements of Competency
1. EA1 Knowledge and Skill Base
EA 1.1 Descriptive, formula-based understanding of
the underpinning natural and physical sciences and
the engineering fundamentals applicable to the
practice area.
a. Applies science and engineering fundamentals to
invesgate and address new problems, applicaons
procedures, pracces and requirements, extrapolang
from a dened and established operang context.
EA 1.2 Procedural-level understanding of the
mathematics, numerical analysis, statistics, and computer
and
information sciences which underpin the practice
area.
a. Rigorously and objecvely applies analysis,
characterisaon, measurement, interpretaon,
assessment, evaluaon, visualisaon, simulaon,
decision making, knowledge management and
communicaon tools and techniques pernent to
specialist sub-disciplines of the pracce area.
EA 1.3 In-depth practical knowledge and skills within
specialist sub-disciplines of the practice area.
a. Prociently executes advanced tasks, processes,
techniques, and procedures in a para-professional
support role using plant and equipment,
instrumentaon, measurement and test facilies,
materials, components and systems.
EA 1.4 Discernment of engineering developments
within the practice area.
a. Maintains a broad understanding of development
trends and emerging issues disseminated within
specialist sub-disciplines of the pracce area.
EA 1.5 Knowledge of contextual factors impacting
the practice area.
a. Idenes and understands the interacons between
engineering pracce and people in the social,
cultural, environmental, commercial, legal and
polical contexts in which they operate, including
both the posive role of engineering in sustainable
development and the potenally adverse impacts of
engineering acvity in the pracce area.
b. Is aware of the fundamentals of business and
enterprise management.
c. Idenes the structure, roles and capabilies of the
engineering workforce.
d. Appreciates the issues associated with internaonal
engineering pracce in the pracce area.
EA 1.6 Understanding of the scope, principles,
norms, accountabilities and bounds
of contemporary
engineering practice in the area of practice.
a. Applies engineering design principles of a
standardised nature, relevant to the area of pracce
and specialist sub-disciplines.
b.
Understands the standards and codes of pracce,
as
well as the legislative and statutory requirements
which underpin practical and technical work in sub -
discipline(s) specialisations of the practice area.
c. Appreciates the principles of safety and
risk management and the health and safety
responsibilies of the engineering team operang
within the pracce area.
d. Appreciates the broad principles and implicaons of
sustainable engineering pracce.
e. Understands the role of engineering project
management tools and procedures as a basis for
planning, organising and managing resources.
Notes:
1. ‘pracce area’ means the broad area of
engineering such as aviaon, mechanical, civil,
telecommunicaons, etc.
2. ‘specialised sub-discipline’ means the specic domain
of technical pracce within a pracce area such as
aviaon maintenance, mechanical design, foundaon
design, communicaons equipment installaon, etc.
2.
EA2
Engineering Application Ability
EA 2.1 Application of established technical and practical
methods to the s
olution of well-defined engineering
problems.
a.
Provides practical input to the analysis of k
ey
issues, applies established diagnostic processes to
investigate causes and effects, applies codified
methods for characterisation and anlysis as well as
performance and behaviour evaluation, fluently
applies standardised solution methodologies and
formulates substantiated conclusions.
b. Uses systemac and rigorous processes to reliably
judge the appropriateness and/or praccal validity
of tasks, processes, pracces, data, results and
documented informaon that may be ambiguous, ill
founded, illogical or subject to uncertainty.
c. Prociently selects and combines available
components or elements to create a system,
documents outcomes and systemacally veries
performance against specicaons and overall
requirements of the system.
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d. Thoroughly evaluates alternave praccal
approaches to the soluon of technical problems
in the pracce area.
e. Crically observes, assesses and systemacally
reports in accordance with procedural requirements
and codes of pracce.
f. Reliably interprets, applies and veries compliance
with standards and codes in the conduct of
standardised engineering tasks relevant to specialist
sub-disciplines in the pracce area.
g. Contributes responsibly and appropriately to
the idencaon, quancaon, migaon and
management of technical, health, environmental,
safety and other contextual risks associated with
praccal engineering applicaon in the pracce area.
h. Appreciates the need to ensure compliance with
legislave and statutory requirements applicable to
specialist sub-disciplines in the pracce area.
i. Accesses appropriate knowledge resources as input
to invesgatory work and praccal problem solving.
EA 2.2 Application of technical and practical
techniques, tools and resources to well-defined
engineering
problems.
a. Prociently idenes, selects and applies the
materials, components, devices, systems, processes,
resources, physical tools, plant and equipment
relevant to the area of pracce.
b.
Proficiently applies computer based engineering tools
a
nd resources specific to specialist sub-discipline(s) of
the area of practice, and recognises the limitations
and accuracy of such tools.
c. Prociently and safely implements laboratory test
and measurement outcomes including experimental
procedures, calibraon and operaon of equipment
and facilies, interpretaon of result data and the
formulaon of reliable conclusions.
d. Understands the applicaon, capabilies, working
limitaons and performance expectaons of the
physical tools, plant and equipment as well as
instrumentaon and test facilies that support the
underlying trades and specialist work within the
pracce area.
e. Recognises common sources of error and eliminates
or compensates for them, and quanes their
signicance to any conclusions drawn.
f. Appreciates the need for systemac approaches to
the acquision, commissioning, operaon, upgrade,
monitoring, maintenance and management of
engineering plant, facilies, equipment and systems.
g. Understands the role of quality management systems,
tools and processes within a culture of connuous
improvement.
EA 2.3 Application of systematic design processes to
well- d
efined engineering problems.
a. Prociently applies technical and praccal knowledge
and problem solving skills as well as established
tools and standardised procedures to design
components, system elements, plant, tools, facilies
and/or resources to meet clearly specied user
requirements.
b. Accommodates contextual factors that impact the
pracce area, and in parcular ensures that health,
safety and sustainability imperaves are addressed as
an integral part of the design process.
c. Engages with technical and praccal elements of a
whole systems design cycle, including tasks such as:
• interpreng and negoang specied user
requirements and acceptance criteria;
• systemacally addressing sustainability criteria;
• ensuring that health, safety and technical risks are
adequately addressed;
• ensuring compliance with essenal engineering
standards and codes of pracce;
• consideraon of alternave approaches and
jusfying an opmal approach;
• developing and compleng the design using
standardised tools and processes;
• implemenng the design using standard
presentaon/development/prototyping/
fabricaon/ construcon techniques;
• checking the design outcome and/or verifying
performance against specied user requirements
using standard audit processes, acceptance tesng
and/or evaluaon procedures;
• documenng and reporng the design outcome.
d. Is aware of the accountabilies of the members
of the engineering team in relaon to the ‘design
authority’ role.
EA 2.4 Application of systematic project
management processes.
a. Engages with basic project management tools and
pracces in the execuon of well-dened technical
project work.
b. Supports a project development cycle through the
applicaon of standardised processes, methodologies,
tools and resources within a complex, but clearly
paroned engineering environment.
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c. Contributes to well-dened and technical project
acvity as a member of the engineering team and/or
through leadership of technical and trades personnel.
Idenes the requirements and resources, and
realiscally assesses the scope, dimensions, scale of
eort and indicave costs of well-dened praccal
and technical project acvity.
d. Is aware of the need to accommodate relevant
contextual issues into praccal and technical project
work, including the fundamentals of cosng and
nancial control.
e. Is aware of the need to plan and quanfy
performance over the full life-cycle of an engineering
project, managing praccal and technical outcomes
within the overall implementaon context.
f. Is able to implement sustainable pracces to achieve
sustainable outcomes in all facets of praccal and
technical project work.
EA3
Professional and Personal Attributes
a. Demonstrates commitment to uphold the Engineers
Australia - Code of Ethics, and established norms of
professional conduct pernent to the pracce area.
b. Understands the need for ‘due-diligence’ in
cercaon, compliance and risk management
processes.
c. Understands the accountabilies of the engineering
team for the safety of other people and for
protecon of the environment.
d. Is aware of the need to recognise and protect
intellectual property rights.
EA 3.2 Effective oral and written communication in
professional and lay domains.
a. Is procient in listening, speaking, reading and wring
English, including:
• comprehending crically and fairly the viewpoints
of others;
• expressing informaon eecvely and succinctly,
issuing instrucon, engaging in discussion,
presenng juscaon, and negoang - to
technical and non-technical audiences and using
textual, diagrammac, pictorial and graphical
media best suited to the context;
• represenng a technical posion to professional
engineering colleagues or to the to the broader
community;
• appreciang the impact of body language,
personal behaviour and other non-verbal
communicaon processes, as well as the
fundamentals of human social behaviour and their
cross-cultural dierences.
b. Prepares high quality engineering documents such
as sketches, charts, diagrams, plans, drawings,
spreadsheets, databases, presentaons, reports,
technical instrucons and manuals.
EA 3.3 Creative, innovative and pro-active demeanour.
a. Applies creave approaches and procedures to the
soluon of well-dened problems, appropriately
challenges exisng engineering pracces and
idenes praccal opportunies for improvement
and innovaon.
b. Seeks out new developments and praccal
approaches and considers their applicaon within
specialist sub-discipline(s) of the pracce area.
EA 3.4 Professional use and management of information.
a. Is procient in locang and ulising professionally
published knowledge, informaon and data.
b. Crically assesses the accuracy, reliability and
authencity of informaon.
c. Is aware of common document tracking and
control procedures.
EA 3.5 Orderly management of self and professional
conduct.
a. Demonstrates commitment to crical self-review and
performance evaluaon against appropriate criteria
as a primary means of tracking personal development
needs and achievements.
b. Understands the importance of being a member of an
engineering community, learning from its knowledge
and standards.
c. Demonstrates commitment to life-long learning
and development.
d. Manages me and processes eecvely, priorises
compeng demands to achieve personal, career and
organisaonal goals and objecves.
e. Presents a professional image in all circumstances,
including relaons with clients, stakeholders, as well
as with colleagues across wide ranging disciplines.
E
A 3.1 Ethical conduct and professional accountability.
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EA 3.6 Effective team membership and team leadership.
a. Understands the fundamentals of team dynamics
and leadership.
b. Funcons as an eecve member of the engineering
team, including those with mul¬cultural dimensions,
and as a leader of a technical and/or trades team
within the area of pracce.
c. Earns the trust and condence of colleagues through
competent and mely compleon of tasks.
d. Recognises the value of alternave and diverse
viewpoints, scholarly advice and the importance
of networking with other para-professional and
professional colleagues.
e. Condently pursues and discerns expert assistance
and professional advice.
f. Takes iniave and fulls the leadership role whilst
respecng the agreed roles of others.
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Engineering Manager:
General Descripon of Role
Tasks include:
• Determining, implemenng and monitoring
engineering strategies, policies and plans
• Interpreng plans, drawings and specicaons,
and providing advice on engineering methods and
procedures to achieve construcon and producon
requirements
• Establishing project schedules and budgets
• Ensuring conformity with specicaons and plans, and
with laws, regulaons and safety standards
• Ensuring engineering standards of quality, cost, safety,
meliness and performance are observed
• Overseeing maintenance requirements to opmise
eciency
• Liaising with markeng, research and manufacturing
managers regarding engineering aspects of new
construcon and product design
• Contribung to research and development projects
• Responsibility for selecon, training and development
of personnel working for him/her
• Responsibility for planning, organising, direcng,
controlling and coordinang the engineering and
technical operaons of the organisaon
Note: A Project Manager or Project Engineer is not
considered an Engineering Manager; but rather is
considered as working as an engineering professional.
Eligibility and Condions
An Engineering Manager should typically have:
•
Five years of experience as an engineering
professional before they
can demonstrate sufficient
competencies at the Engineering Manager level
•
Two years of experience operating at the
Engineering Manag
er level
•
Persons reporting to them who are at the managerial
level
Documentary requirements in addion
to the CDR
It is mandatory for an Engineering Manager applicant
to apply for a Relevant Skilled Employment assessment.
• Leers of reference and organisaonal charts must be
provided. Should provide the Ocial Organisaonal
Chart approved by the person he or she reports to in
the organisaon
• Ocial duty statement approved by authorised person
in the organisaon
• Company prole of the whole organisaon, including
details of the size and business acvies of the
organisaon being managed
• Detailed employment documentary evidence for the
last ten years
• Documentary evidence of your appointment as an
Engineering Manager (performance reviews, leers of
oers and promoon leers)
• Historical career prole showing you career
progression within the organisaon
• Details of the formal management training undertaken
• Remuneraon for the last three years
• Addional documentaon to support your claim
See Summary Statement in Sec
tion C
Engineering Manager is a high level execuve posion involving the formulaon of engineering strategies, policies and
plans and the direcon, administraon and review of engineering operaons for an organizaon.
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Engineering Manager:
Units and Elements of Competency
EM 1.1 Contributes to engineering
business strategies
• Provides engineering analysis to contribute to the
development of strategic plans and sustainability
• Integrates engineering objecves into business
planning
•
Seeks emergent business opportunities based
upon engineering initiatives to create opportunities
• Works with others to develop engineering
performance targets and nancial plans
• Provides advice on engineering related costs and risks
• Implements processes to monitor and adjust team
performance within the organisaon’s connuous
improvement policies
• Undertakes risk assessment within organisaonal
guidelines
• Develops quality plans for engineering operaons
• Applies whole of life cosng
EM 1.2 Develops client relationships
• Plans to meet internal and external clients’
engineering requirements
• Ensures delivery of quality engineering products and
services
• Seeks client feedback on the delivery of engineering
products and services
• Monitors adjusts and reports on the client service
received
• Assists customers to idenfy sustainable opons and
implicaons
EM 1.3 Manages the implementation of
engineering plans within the business
• Allocates roles and responsibilies to sta to achieve
engineering plans
• Provides engineering leadership
• Manages performance and standards
• Contributes to the soluon of engineering problems
• Monitors strategic engineering plans, goals and
targets
• Manages costs
• Manages safety and quality
• Manages environmental issues
• Manages risks and conngencies
EM 1.4 Manages resources
• Implements resource management plans
• Procures resources
• Manages asset maintenance
• Manages disposal, waste management and recycling
plans
• Provides advice on engineering costs
• Contributes to the innovave management of
resources
EM 1.5 Manages people
• Implements people management plan
• Monitors team and individual performance targets
• Parcipates in the selecon of sta
• Ensures the provision of skills and competencies
requested to meet business targets
• Manages the workplace culture so that sta work in a
connual learning environment
• Ensures the adherence to ethical, OH&S and quality
standards
• Provides performance feedback
EM 1.6 Manages suppliers
• Parcipates in supplier selecon
• Prepares documents for engagement of suppliers
• Plans and implements monitoring of suppliers
EM 1.7 Manages business information
• Idenes and complies with all statutory reporng
requirements
• Uses management informaon systems eecvely to
store and retrieve data for decision making
• Prepares and presents business plans / budgets in
accordance with the organisaon’s guidelines and
requirements
EM 1.8 Monitors
engineering business
performance
• Establishes monitoring processes and feedback
systems to ensure agreed targets are met
•
Establishes monitoring and reporng processes to
ensure statutory requirements are met
Establishes and monitors processes so that
continuous
improvement is achieved at all levels of
the business Professional Engineer Category (Skill
Level 1)
•
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Professional Engineer Category (Skill Level 1)
Aeronaucal Engineer (233911) including specializaons
Agricultural Engineer (233912) including alternave tle
Biomedical Engineer (233913) including specializaons
Civil Engineer (233211) including specializaons
Chemical Engineer (233111)
Electronics Engineers (233411) including specializaon
Electrical Engineer (233311) including specializaons
Environmental Engineer (233915)
Geotechnical Engineer (233212)
Industrial Engineer (233511) including specializaon
Materials Engineer (233112)
Mechanical Engineer (233512) including specializaons
Mining Engineer (233611) including specializaon
Naval Architect (233916)
Petroleum Engineer (233612) including specializaons
Producon or Plant Engineer (233513) including specializaon
Structural Engineer (233214)
Telecommunicaons Engineer (263311) including specializaon
Telecommunicaons Network Engineer (263312) including alternave tles
Transport Engineer (233215)
Engineering Professional nec (233999)
Engineering Technologist Category (Skill Level 1)
Engineering Technologist (233914) including specializaons
Engineering Associate Category (Skill Level 2)
Civil Engineering Drasperson (3
1
2211) including specializaons
Electrical E
ngineering Draftsperson (312311) including specializations
Telecommunication Field Engineer (313212)
Telecommunications Network Planner (313213)
Telecommunications Technical Officer or Technologist (313214)
Managers and Administrators Category (Skill Level 1)
Engineering Manager (133211)
ANZSCO Occupaons
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