FABRICATION ENGINEER SKILLS, EXPERIENCE, AND JOB REQUIREMENTS
Updated: Jun 12, 2025 - The Fabrication Engineer excels in project management, including scheduling, contract negotiation, and cost control, particularly in metal fabrication and the production of subsea structures such as PLETs, manifolds, and jumpers. This role brings extensive experience in welding, metal formability, and the specification and acquisition of industrial equipment. This position demonstrates strong leadership in managing multicultural teams, motivating project members, and balancing between immediate tasks and long-term objectives.
Essential Hard and Soft Skills for a Standout Fabrication Engineer Resume
- Solid Modeling
- Equipment Specification
- Process Development
- Tool Design
- Fabrication
- Documentation
- Maintenance
- Drawing Interpretation
- Performance Reporting
- Documentation Review
- Cross-functional Collaboration
- Team-Oriented Work
- Coordination
- Teamwork
- Leadership
- Risk Management
- Stakeholder Management
- Technical Meetings
- Intellectual Property Protection
- Manufacturing Trend Analysis
Summary of Fabrication Engineer Knowledge and Qualifications on Resume
1. BS in Mechanical Engineering with 2 years of Experience
- Understanding of Lean Manufacturing Concepts
- Analytical and problem-solving skills
- Interpersonal and team-building skills with the ability to work in a team environment
- Project management skills
- In-depth knowledge of appliance fabrication, tooling and related manufacturing processes such as complex fabrication lines/cells that contain forming, piercing, bending, welding, robotics, PU foam, material handling, etc.
- Basic understanding of industrial controls, including Programmable Logic Controller, (PLC) ladder logic and Human Face Interface, ( HMI’s)
- Ability to translate component GD&T Geometric Dimensioning and Tolerancing into equipment designs so that critical interfaces are assured
- Ability to demonstrate a history of collecting and analyzing measurement / SPC data to identify trends, patterns and drive to root cause
- Experience in new product introductions, including the direct planning and acquisition of the associated capital equipment
- Experience working in a heavily automated production environment is desired
- Ability to demonstrate a history of gathering input from key stakeholders and gaining buy-in
- Ability to demonstrate a history of success working in a matrix-managed environment
- Ability to demonstrate success in translating technical concepts to commonly used business language
2. BS in Manufacturing Engineering with 4 years of Experience
- Good analytical and methodical problem-solving skills.
- Project management skills and tools.
- Ability to work in multicultural teams, an open and innovative mindset.
- Goal-oriented, persevering, and focused on quality.
- Able to share attention between short and long-term goals.
- Experience in metal fabrication processes (metal bending, equipment or tooling design, acquisition, start-up, etc.) and/or experience with industrial equipment, specification and purchasing
- Knowledge of metal processability and formability.
- Extensive knowledge in welding, inspections, design, or installation of subsea structures (PLETs, manifolds, jumpers, etc.)
- Experience in the fabrication of subsea structures (PLETs, manifolds, jumpers, etc.)
- Experience in subcontractor management with duties including scheduling, contract negotiation, and cost control
- Capability to manage individuals within the project and interface with personnel both internal or external to the project
- Ability to motivate other members of the project team to deliver project commitments
- Ability to work both in the office and on the Yard with worker's teams
3. BS in Industrial Engineering with 3 years of Experience
- Experience in researching or industry experience with LCDs/liquid crystal devices
- Experience in cleanroom fabrication/prototyping
- Hands-on experience in liquid crystal cleanroom prototyping processes (substrate preparation, spin coating, photolithography, wet/dry etching, thin film deposition, alignment layer processing, cell assembly)
- Experience with Thin film characterization (ellipsometry), polarizing microscopy, liquid crystal characterization, optical characterization
- Experience in failure analysis and solving complex technical problems
- Experience with cross-functional team communication and collaboration
- Experience with clean room fabrication processes
- Experience with liquid crystal fabrication processes, including experience with high-resolution electrode patterning, vacuum depositions, various LC alignment methods
- Experience in electro-optical metrology of active LC devices
- Experience in modeling/simulation of LC devices