Activities include design planning investigation and problem resolution improvement of materials, components, systems or processes manufacture or construction engineering operations maintenance project management research development and commercialisation. Engineering activities can be divided into (approximately 5% Complex (Professional Engineers) 5% Broadly Defined (Professional Engineering Technologists) 10% Well-Defined (Professional Engineering Technicians) 15% Narrowly Well-Defined (Registered Specified Categories) 20% Skilled Workman (Engineering Artisan) 55% Unskilled Workman (Artisan Assistants) The activities can be in-house or contracted out evidence of integrated performance can be submitted irrespective of the situation. Level Descriptor WDEAs in the various disciplines are characterised by several or all of the following a) Scope of practice area does not cover the entire field of the discipline (exposure limited to the sub-discipline and specific workplace. Techniques applied are largely well established and change by adopting new techniques into current practice is the exception. b) Practice area varies substantially with unlimited location possibilities, resulting in the additional responsibility of identifying the need for complex and/or broadly defined advice to be included in the well-defined working relationships with other parties and disciplines. c) The bulk of the work involves a familiar, defined range of resources, including people, money, equipment, materials and technologies. d) Most of the impacts in the sub-discipline are on wider issues, and although occurring frequently, are well-defined and can be resolved by following established procedures. e) The work packages and associated parameters are constrained by operational context with variations limited to different locations only (cannot be covered by standards and codes. f) Even locally important minor risks can have far-reaching consequences. Activities include design planning investigation and problem resolution improvement of materials, components, systems or processes engineering operations maintenance and project management. For Engineering Technicians, research, development and commercialisation happen frequently in some disciplines and are seldom encountered in others.
