In the increasingly competitive world of industry and manufacturing it is important that you demonstrate your experience and technical expertise immediately to a prospective employer or interviewer.

Demonstrating the experience you have gained to date in your career will determine your suitability as a candidate.

Organizations everywhere are looking to their engineering staff to make significant improvements to their processes. The bottom line is introducing processes that are cost effective and ultimately are less operator dependant. Buzzwords such as headcount reduction, lean, ergonomic are very much a part of the Engineering functions life at any such organization.

As a result you must demonstrate the ability to analyze and implement solutions to complex engineering problems. Forward thinking and the ability to make significant improvements in the methodology employed by operations staff is a key quality that must be reflected in your resume.

Technical ability is of the most significant skills you must offer to your prospective employer, however you are expected to reflect effective analytical and communication skills in order to create the whole picture.

Examples are as follows:

Developed, devised and implemented lean procedures, reducing headcount across production area by 15%, making labour gains in the region of $250,000 annually. Implemented new ergonomic practices, developing a safer and more effective working environment. Participated in a six-sigma project tasked with the reduction of yield loss across the operations area. Gained significant cost savings of up to $500,000 quarter on quarter throughout 2002 through the implementation of corrective and preventative actions.