Mine engineering superintendent vs engineering director

The differences between mine engineering superintendents and engineering directors can be seen in a few details. Each job has different responsibilities and duties. It typically takes More than 10 years to become both a mine engineering superintendent and an engineering director. Additionally, an engineering director has an average salary of $162,252, which is higher than the $107,167 average annual salary of a mine engineering superintendent.

The top three skills for a mine engineering superintendent include dry docking, lean manufacturing and technical management. The most important skills for an engineering director are java, architecture, and infrastructure.

Mine engineering superintendent vs engineering director overview

	Mine Engineering Superintendent	Engineering Director
Yearly salary	$107,167	$162,252
Hourly rate	$51.52	$78.01
Growth rate	2%	2%
Number of jobs	64,473	63,868
Job satisfaction	-	-
Most common degree	Bachelor's Degree, 60%	Bachelor's Degree, 67%
Average age	48	48
Years of experience	-	-

Mine engineering superintendent vs engineering director salary

Mine engineering superintendents and engineering directors have different pay scales, as shown below.

	Mine Engineering Superintendent	Engineering Director
Average salary	$107,167	$162,252
Salary range	Between $72,000 And $158,000	Between $109,000 And $239,000
Highest paying City	San Ramon, CA	San Francisco, CA
Highest paying state	Nevada	California
Best paying company	Chevron	Brookfield Properties
Best paying industry	Energy	Technology

Differences between mine engineering superintendent and engineering director education

There are a few differences between a mine engineering superintendent and an engineering director in terms of educational background:

	Mine Engineering Superintendent	Engineering Director
Most common degree	Bachelor's Degree, 60%	Bachelor's Degree, 67%
Most common major	Mechanical Engineering	Electrical Engineering
Most common college	University of Michigan - Ann Arbor	University of Michigan - Ann Arbor

Mine engineering superintendent vs engineering director demographics

Here are the differences between mine engineering superintendents' and engineering directors' demographics:

	Mine Engineering Superintendent	Engineering Director
Average age	48	48
Gender ratio	Male, 96.0% Female, 4.0%	Male, 94.6% Female, 5.4%
Race ratio	Black or African American, 3.1% Unknown, 4.7% Hispanic or Latino, 8.9% Asian, 11.7% White, 71.4% American Indian and Alaska Native, 0.2%	Black or African American, 3.2% Unknown, 4.7% Hispanic or Latino, 9.1% Asian, 13.1% White, 69.8% American Indian and Alaska Native, 0.2%
LGBT Percentage	9%	9%

Differences between mine engineering superintendent and engineering director duties and responsibilities

Mine engineering superintendent example responsibilities.

Manage QA for research orient development efforts and for high visibility, production focuse development efforts tie to revenue generation.
Work with application and other infrastructure teams to facilitate application on-boarding, testing, move-ups, and user security infrastructure integration.
Coordinate the ECO process, tasks include prioritization, implementation, review, and release using MatrixOne PDM.
Utilize Kaizen events to measure facilities current performance and help identify other opportunities.

Engineering director example responsibilities.

Monitor and manage performance base on multiple KPI's.
Manage all FCC filings for the registration of license frequencies.
Improve network reliability and manage signal leakage and FCC compliance.
Lead implementation and remediation efforts to ensure HIPPA, SOX, and PCI compliance.
Manage a team to develop and support SaaS base access control product for health care industry.
Manage release and deployments for multiple, concurrent Java project across varying release cycles from inception to delivery.

Mine engineering superintendent vs engineering director skills

Common mine engineering superintendent skills

Dry Docking, 15%
Lean Manufacturing, 14%
Technical Management, 11%
Construction Projects, 11%
Facilitate Repair, 9%
Construction Management, 6%

Common engineering director skills

Java, 7%
Architecture, 7%
Infrastructure, 6%
AWS, 5%
Project Management, 5%
Customer Service, 4%

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