Principal Additive Manufacturing Engineer
Enterprise expert
Career Explorer · Procurement, Supply Chain & Manufacturing · Additive Manufacturing
Standard where business need supports the level
What the role involves
- Autonomy
- Defines strategy and standards across a function
- Scope
- Business unit / enterprise capability
- Time horizon
- 1-2 years
- Expertise and judgement
- Recognized authority; shapes investment and technical/professional strategy
- Expected impact
- Changes enterprise outcomes through expertise and influence
Expected skills (23)
Grouped as human, professional and technical. Target proficiency uses the P1–P5 scale, and each row says what that level means for that particular skill.
Human (12)
| Skill | Importance | Target | What that level looks like |
|---|---|---|---|
| Accountability Personal Effectiveness | Core | P4 | Sets standards, integrates the skill across teams and resolves novel or high-impact problems. |
| Active listening Communication & Influence | Core | P4 | Sets standards, integrates the skill across teams and resolves novel or high-impact problems. |
| Collaboration Collaboration & Leadership | Core | P4 | Sets standards, integrates the skill across teams and resolves novel or high-impact problems. |
| Critical thinking Thinking & Judgment | Core | P4 | Sets standards, integrates the skill across teams and resolves novel or high-impact problems. |
| Customer empathy Personal Effectiveness | Core | P4 | Sets standards, integrates the skill across teams and resolves novel or high-impact problems. |
| Learning agility Thinking & Judgment | Core | P4 | Sets standards, integrates the skill across teams and resolves novel or high-impact problems. |
| Ownership Personal Effectiveness | Core | P4 | Sets standards, integrates the skill across teams and resolves novel or high-impact problems. |
| Problem solving Thinking & Judgment | Core | P4 | Sets standards, integrates the skill across teams and resolves novel or high-impact problems. |
| Verbal communication Communication & Influence | Core | P4 | Sets standards, integrates the skill across teams and resolves novel or high-impact problems. |
| Written communication Communication & Influence | Core | P4 | Sets standards, integrates the skill across teams and resolves novel or high-impact problems. |
| Quality mindset Operational Human Skills | Supporting | P4 | Models and institutionalizes Quality mindset across teams. |
| Safety-first judgment Operational Human Skills | Supporting | P4 | Models and institutionalizes Safety-first judgment across teams. |
Professional (7)
| Skill | Importance | Target | What that level looks like |
|---|---|---|---|
| Business acumen Business & Strategy | Core | P4 | Sets standards, integrates the skill across teams and resolves novel or high-impact problems. |
| Lean manufacturing Operational Excellence | Core | P4 | Sets cross-team standards and governance for Lean manufacturing, integrating risk, metrics and stakeholder needs. |
| Operational excellence systems Operational Excellence | Supporting | P4 | Sets cross-team standards and governance for Operational excellence systems, integrating risk, metrics and stakeholder needs. |
| Overall Equipment Effectiveness (OEE) Operational Excellence | Supporting | P4 | Sets cross-team standards and governance for Overall Equipment Effectiveness (OEE), integrating risk, metrics and stakeholder needs. |
| Scrap reduction Operational Excellence | Supporting | P4 | Sets cross-team standards and governance for Scrap reduction, integrating risk, metrics and stakeholder needs. |
| Standard work Operational Excellence | Supporting | P4 | Sets cross-team standards and governance for Standard work, integrating risk, metrics and stakeholder needs. |
| Yield improvement Operational Excellence | Supporting | P4 | Sets cross-team standards and governance for Yield improvement, integrating risk, metrics and stakeholder needs. |
Technical (4)
| Skill | Importance | Target | What that level looks like |
|---|---|---|---|
| Bill of Materials (BOM) Manufacturing Systems & Automation | Supporting | P4 | Designs standards/approaches for Bill of Materials (BOM), leads cross-team implementation and mentors practitioners. |
| Manufacturing Execution Systems (MES) Manufacturing Systems & Automation | Supporting | P4 | Designs standards/approaches for Manufacturing Execution Systems (MES), leads cross-team implementation and mentors practitioners. |
| New Product Introduction (NPI) Advanced Manufacturing | Supporting | P4 | Designs standards/approaches for New Product Introduction (NPI), leads cross-team implementation and mentors practitioners. |
| Technology transfer Advanced Manufacturing | Supporting | P4 | Designs standards/approaches for Technology transfer, leads cross-team implementation and mentors practitioners. |
Career ladder
Reached from
Next steps
- Senior Principal Additive Manufacturing EngineerIC6IC promotion
Move from enterprise expert to senior enterprise authority; solve novel problems across business units and anticipate longer-horizon shifts.
What changes to advance
Move from enterprise expert to senior enterprise authority; solve novel problems across business units and anticipate longer-horizon shifts.
Source: PROCOMER FTZ benchmark; employer career sites · JF0434-IC5