P3P3 — Mid-Level Professional
Proficient
Lead projects to develop complete automated systems; integrate mechanical and electronic designs; debug complex system issues.
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
- Lead projects to develop complete automated systems
- Integrate mechanical and electronic designs
- Lead system development projects
- Integrate diverse engineering designs
- Resolve complex system issues
Skills, knowledge & tools
- Project leadership
- System debugging
- Design integration
- Communication
- Technical mentoring
- Project management methodologies
- System integration techniques
- Advanced debugging
- Cross-disciplinary engineering
- Leadership principles
- Project management
- Effective communicator
- System integration
- Leadership
- Problem-solving
What good looks like
- ~4–7 years experience
- Deep control systems knowledge
Common titles
Mechatronics Engineering IIIMechatronics Engineering 3Mid-Level Mechatronics EngineeringMechatronics Engineer IIIMechatronics Engineer 3Mid-Level Mechatronics EngineerAutomation IIIAutomation 3Mid-Level AutomationControl Systems IIIControl Systems 3Mid-Level Control Systems
What it pays
Market-pay benchmarks for this family × level are being recalibrated across all survey sources and will return shortly.
O*NET / SOC: 17-2199.05 — Mechatronics Engineers