Hello all,
recently, my company promoted couple of engineers to senior mechanical engineer positions.
I am working in the automotive industry for a small volume car manufacturer, and the people who got this promotions are like in company for 3 years, so this is first time in their life they got some real automotive experience since they didn't have any from previous companies they used to work (overall they have 6-7 years of experience but in different companies that were not related to automotive). I also had oportunity to check their work and I wouldn't say that they can be considered as seniors since I saw bad drawings without tolerances and proper annotated dimensions. What I noticed is also that plenty of my colleagues want to become senior engineers even if they don't have experience that would justify their job title, in hope that senior title will give them higher salary when they move to anoter company. What is happening here is that engineers are not maturing well and they are promoted to positions which they are not up to it, and I can just see after their work bad documentation and bad products.
Can this be effect of young gennerations like Millenials which are considered as generations that want fast advancing and consider that they don't hive time to spend in industry more than 10 years to become senior engineer?
In my opinion senior should be somebody who have at least 10 years of experience just in one industry, like automotive, aerospace, production, etc., that is capable to do his task on his own, and that is capable to share his knowlege and guide juniors in supporting thier tasks.
My question here is what do you think, what experience and knowledge is necessary for someone to become a senior mechanical engineer?
recently, my company promoted couple of engineers to senior mechanical engineer positions.
I am working in the automotive industry for a small volume car manufacturer, and the people who got this promotions are like in company for 3 years, so this is first time in their life they got some real automotive experience since they didn't have any from previous companies they used to work (overall they have 6-7 years of experience but in different companies that were not related to automotive). I also had oportunity to check their work and I wouldn't say that they can be considered as seniors since I saw bad drawings without tolerances and proper annotated dimensions. What I noticed is also that plenty of my colleagues want to become senior engineers even if they don't have experience that would justify their job title, in hope that senior title will give them higher salary when they move to anoter company. What is happening here is that engineers are not maturing well and they are promoted to positions which they are not up to it, and I can just see after their work bad documentation and bad products.
Can this be effect of young gennerations like Millenials which are considered as generations that want fast advancing and consider that they don't hive time to spend in industry more than 10 years to become senior engineer?
In my opinion senior should be somebody who have at least 10 years of experience just in one industry, like automotive, aerospace, production, etc., that is capable to do his task on his own, and that is capable to share his knowlege and guide juniors in supporting thier tasks.
My question here is what do you think, what experience and knowledge is necessary for someone to become a senior mechanical engineer?