P3P3 — Mid-Level Professional
Proficient Engineer
Manages a broad range of engineering tasks on a project. Plans and completes assignments such as designing a turbine component.
What this level means
Fully competent professional; works independently on standard projects
- Scope
- Features or a sub-system end-to-end
- Autonomy
- Works independently on standard work; reviewed on the non-standard
- Complexity
- Diverse problems; adapts existing approaches
- Impact
- Project / team outcomes
- Decision rights
- Owns implementation decisions for own scope
- Leadership
- Mentors juniors informally
- Typical experience
- 3–5 yrs
What you'd do
- Designs turbine components
- Performs full section of a wind farm layout
- Design and develop turbine components
- Manage engineering project tasks
- Collaborate with cross-functional teams
Skills, knowledge & tools
- Component design
- Project management
- Leadership
- Collaboration
- Turbine design
- Project management
- Team leadership
- Advanced engineering principles
- Analytical thinking
- Leadership
- Collaboration
- Accountability
What good looks like
- Roughly 5–8 years of experience
- Experience leading a small project
Common titles
Engineering (Energy Systems) IIIEngineering (Energy Systems) 3Mid-Level Engineering (Energy Systems)Proficient Engineer
Where it sits & what it pays
O*NET / SOC: 17-2199.11 — Solar Energy Systems Engineers
Market-pay benchmarks for this family × level are coming — JobFrame anchors pay to the family/level structure rather than the raw title.