Tool liaison vs co-operations engineer

The differences between tool liaisons and co-operations engineers can be seen in a few details. Each job has different responsibilities and duties. It typically takes 2-4 years to become both a tool liaison and a co-operations engineer. Additionally, a tool liaison has an average salary of $83,524, which is higher than the $42,618 average annual salary of a co-operations engineer.

The top three skills for a tool liaison include jigs, CATIA and design requests. The most important skills for a co-operations engineer are CAD, lean manufacturing, and python.

Tool liaison vs co-operations engineer overview

	Tool Liaison	Co-Operations Engineer
Yearly salary	$83,524	$42,618
Hourly rate	$40.16	$20.49
Growth rate	10%	10%
Number of jobs	13,025	86,804
Job satisfaction	-	-
Most common degree	Bachelor's Degree, 63%	Bachelor's Degree, 81%
Average age	42	42
Years of experience	4	4

Tool liaison vs co-operations engineer salary

Tool liaisons and co-operations engineers have different pay scales, as shown below.

	Tool Liaison	Co-Operations Engineer
Average salary	$83,524	$42,618
Salary range	Between $42,000 And $163,000	Between $31,000 And $58,000
Highest paying City	-	Boston, MA
Highest paying state	-	Alaska
Best paying company	-	Cirrus Logic
Best paying industry	-	Energy

Differences between tool liaison and co-operations engineer education

There are a few differences between a tool liaison and a co-operations engineer in terms of educational background:

	Tool Liaison	Co-Operations Engineer
Most common degree	Bachelor's Degree, 63%	Bachelor's Degree, 81%
Most common major	Mechanical Engineering	Mechanical Engineering
Most common college	Northwestern University	Northwestern University

Tool liaison vs co-operations engineer demographics

Here are the differences between tool liaisons' and co-operations engineers' demographics:

	Tool Liaison	Co-Operations Engineer
Average age	42	42
Gender ratio	Male, 89.2% Female, 10.8%	Male, 83.6% Female, 16.4%
Race ratio	Black or African American, 4.9% Unknown, 4.0% Hispanic or Latino, 12.0% Asian, 9.6% White, 69.3% American Indian and Alaska Native, 0.2%	Black or African American, 4.3% Unknown, 3.9% Hispanic or Latino, 10.5% Asian, 14.8% White, 66.3% American Indian and Alaska Native, 0.2%
LGBT Percentage	4%	4%

Differences between tool liaison and co-operations engineer duties and responsibilities

Tool liaison example responsibilities.

Apply for and achieve ISO certification.
Manage implementation of these solutions with hangar managers, inspectors, technicians, vendors, and OEM's.
Review changes and issues utilizing CATIA and VPM.
Design work are produced both on paper and on CATIA V4.
Collaborate with CMM equipment in the inspection of inventory shipments, ensuring all materials comply with government quality requirements and specifications.
Perform some QA inspections with raw sheet material for customer qualifications and cost saving projects.

Co-operations engineer example responsibilities.

Manage schedules and critical deliverables for prototyping and qualification activities for I/O programs.
Plan BOM's and sequence of operations used to manufacture machine detailed parts and assemblies for the aerospace industry.
Represent manufacturing engineering department at daily meetings to troubleshoot engineering, manufacturing, and production issues encounter on the lead craft.
Implement with Java and its library.
Perform follow up on ISO audits.
Develop software to scan windows systems for known Y2K vulnerabilities

Tool liaison vs co-operations engineer skills

Common tool liaison skills

Jigs, 56%
CATIA, 29%
Design Requests, 16%

Common co-operations engineer skills

CAD, 9%
Lean Manufacturing, 7%
Python, 6%
C++, 5%
PowerPoint, 5%
Continuous Improvement, 5%