What is your job title?

[dwoodlock]

When all else fails guy. Thats how I feel a lot of times anyway lol.

 

[brstilson]

Controls Engineer, but I don't have a degree

 

[Ned_Flanders]

Controls Technician (No degree...) but

I have a bit of fun with the company email system and change my "Signature" line daily - depending on what I have been working on.
Yesterday I was "AGV Engineer" because no body else could fix it.
The day before "All round smarty pants" because I knew what I was talking about!

I knew of some one who had "Acrobat, Diplomat, Doormat" on a business card!!!

 

[TimWilborne]

Years ago I discovered that nobody checked or proofread our business cards; we'd just order them from the printing service and they came with the official company logos and fonts. So I gave myself the title 'Automation Therapist'.

I snagged this one from you although I also carry cards with "Owner".

 

[ceilingwalker]

You will also call my job title at work vague, Electronics Engineer. My degree is Electronics Technology but the bulk of my training for the automation has come from this forum and The PLC Bootcamp. I get the same questions, "what does an electronics engineer do, are you an electrician"? I just quickly evaluate who is doing the asking and give them a title I believe they will understand. Funny you should bring this up as I have asked myself the same question many times. I have also been called (although not worthy of it) a systems integrator, automation engineer, process engineer, etc... .
That's why I like to spend most of my time at home where I am simply known as "Daddy".

 

[rpoet]

My title is 'Automation Engineer'

Same here; "Automation Engineer."


-rpoet

 

[TimWilborne]

That's why I like to spend most of my time at home where I am simply known as "Daddy".

Nice

 

[Bullzi]

After this week I am thinking - "Truck Driver" would be a nice job title

 

[Ken Roach]

"Hey, Mav, do you still have that number for the truck driving school? I might need that."

 

[Bullzi]

Used that exact line on my Boss today!!

 

[dcooper33]

Another vague one:
Project Electrical Technician (non-degreed)
or as I was once dubbed by one of my degreed colleagues,
"The Do-er"

I may not get the same bucks as some of the other guys who went to school, but I do pretty well, and I do like that OT
Besides, at least in my neck of the corporate woods, once you take a salary, you stop automating and start accounting. Not for me.

 

[RheinhardtP]

Industrial Prostitute.... at times.

 

[jstolaruk]

I do robot programming along with controls and that is somewhat uncommon in my neck of the woods so I started using Automation Specialist. Guess I should have biz cards made up.

 

[brstilson]

A side note. Do you have to have a Bachelor's Degree in order to be called an Engineer? I ask because I don't have one (just a two-year degree in drafting), but my official job title is Controls Engineer. The only time I ever had someone correct me was over ten years ago when I was first starting out and my boss told me not to call myself an engineer because I didn't have a BSEE. Then again, he called himself a Controls Engineer and he didn't even have an Associate's.

 

[dwoodlock]

I would say that it probably depends on where you work. At my company the cad guys are called engineers and they are all associates guys who solely work on mechanical drawings and designs. I design/build/wire/program/edit/improve/draw electrical prints/anything depending on what im dictated to do by my boss, or more often necessity, and I'm a maintenance technician.

I've heard of companies like Michelin using numerical references to technician capablities, and I think they are beginning to implement that system here. so maybe soon i'll have a card that says "007" or something like that lol.