P5P5 — Expert Professional
Principal
Sets strategy for equipment engineering across sites or multiple lines. Makes high-impact decisions with broad organizational significance.
What this level means
Expert in field; key problem solver and project leader, authority in multiple areas
- Scope
- Multiple systems or a technical domain
- Autonomy
- Sets direction within the domain
- Complexity
- Novel, high-ambiguity problems; establishes the approach
- Impact
- Org / multi-team outcomes
- Decision rights
- Authority over a technical domain
- Leadership
- Leads cross-team technical initiatives
- Typical experience
- 8–12 yrs
What you'd do
- Shapes equipment technology roadmap for the company
- Leads enterprise-wide implementation of new manufacturing platforms
- Advises on strategic equipment investments
- Represents engineering in executive meetings
- Drives innovation in equipment technology
- Shape equipment technology roadmap
- Lead platform implementations
- Advise on equipment investments
- Represent engineering at executive level
- Drive equipment technology innovation
Skills, knowledge & tools
- Strategic planning
- Innovation leadership
- Executive advising
- Cross-functional collaboration
- Visionary thinking
- Strategic equipment planning
- Innovation in manufacturing
- Executive communication
- Cross-functional leadership
- Technology roadmap development
- Innovation Driver
- Cross-functional leadership
- Strategic Impact
- Visionary leadership
- Executive communication
What good looks like
- Master’s or PhD in engineering; 12+ years with extensive leadership of complex projects
- PE license and senior management or strategy credentials (MBA or exec education) are advantageous
- Proven strategic leadership skills
Where it sits & what it pays
O*NET / SOC: 17-2112.03 — Manufacturing Engineers
Market-pay benchmarks for this family × level are coming — JobFrame anchors pay to the family/level structure rather than the raw title.