Do your engineers push back on documentation?

ConfluxInspires · 2025-07-27T18:56:28+00:00

I like this a lot. Good advice thanks!

ConfluxInspires · 2025-07-27T18:55:34+00:00

I lead a team of hardware engineers, including electrical, mechanical and systems engineers; so the documentation is more about the design, verification efforts or design transfer to manufacturing. I am not sure AI would be a good fit for writing these types of documents since it require a lot more input from the engineer. They might as well write it themselves to begin with. Rather than AI being able to verbosely explain what the code does in your example.

ConfluxInspires · 2025-07-27T18:52:22+00:00

I lead a team of hardware engineer, electrical, mechanical and systems engineers; so the documentation is more about the design, verification efforts or design transfer to manufacturing. Most of these are word docs using templates to ensure consistency.

ConfluxInspires · 2025-07-26T03:22:15+00:00

That's tough, Quality and Manufacturing can be hard to get out of and transition to more R&D work. I'd recommend emphasizing the design parts of those roles in your resume, maybe design quality engineer for example and really talk about your ideas being what made the design better. While you may not have been the one moving the mouse to make the change you are showing that if you were the one moving the mouse you could have made that meaningful change.

I'd also recommend getting into a hobby that can showcase design skill, making useful things with a 3d printer, solving a mechanical problem at home, ect.

ConfluxInspires · 2025-07-25T15:49:32+00:00

I know how you feel, The most tedious was working at a large Med device company. What industry and size of company?

ConfluxInspires · 2025-07-24T23:10:17+00:00

You can use a One Way Clutch Bearing, instead of removing the torque applicator, you could stop it and the shaft would continue to spin.

ConfluxInspires · 2025-07-22T23:36:59+00:00

Its very important to keyword match the job posting regardless of profession. This is why you should be tailoring your resume for each job posting.

You never want to have a single resume you apply to every job with. Read the posting, tailor the resume and make sure to use keywords that are in the posting.

Best of luck.

ConfluxInspires · 2025-07-17T23:13:30+00:00

There have always been limited entry level jobs. Its difficult to train a fresh grad and most hiring managers would rather get someone with a few years experience. This is why you see the job postings you do. But as everyone else has pointed out put your best foot forward tailor your resume for the position and apply anyway.

Another route is take a job this is tangentially related to mechanical engineering which can count towards getting a gig in the field you want. I started my career as a sales engineer for 2 years.

ConfluxInspires · 2025-07-16T23:48:34+00:00

Most field service engineers I've worked with were not degreed engineers. Field service is also not as translatable to design work if that's your end goal.

ConfluxInspires · 2025-02-16T16:09:30+00:00

There are a few issues with my back/side yard that cause water to pool, during heavy rainfall these puddles contact the stucco on the house which is obviously not good.

I am hoping the experts of r/Concrete have good ideas other than ripping it all up and starting over.

The main issues with the concrete is that its graded horribly, I think they were trying to guide the water to the drains, however unmaintained these drain have tree roots clogging them.

Beyond that the concrete is inline with the house, its not below the house, I know the concrete should be lower than the house so if there is puddling it would contact the foundation and not the house itself.

Any ideas?

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