A professional who establishes engineering and technical limitations and applications for items, materials, processes, methods, designs, and engineering practices for use by designers of machines and equipment, such as aircraft, automobiles, and space vehicles. Responsibilities include:

• Communicates with management of industrial organization to maintain knowledge of current and proposed projects in order to develop appropriate standards for design and production of new items.
• Evaluates data in scientific journals, suppliers' catalogs, government standards documents, and other sources of information on materials, processes, and parts to update knowledge of available resources.
• Prepares specification sheets and standard drawings designating parts and materials acceptable for specific uses, using knowledge of primary engineering discipline and related disciplines.
• Examines all factors involved to confirm that standards will result in most economic use of material and labor consistent with safety and durability of final product.
• Reviews standards prepared with other departmental specialists to assure consistency with existing standards and those in other specialized disciplines.
• Communicates with user personnel to confirm knowledge of standards and cooperation of various project groups.
• Follows established procedures for retention of data developed to assure optimum storage and retrieval by manual or automated methods.