Job Analysis for an Operational Gap MEMO

This memo is to bring awareness to the operational gap within the Engineering and Product Delivery department (EPDD) in the organization. The project office notified the EPDD with the preliminary booked project assignments for the next calendar year. The EPDD is operating at full capacity and does not have additional capacity to work on new projects. For the past three months the EPDD engineers are reporting more than 40 hours a week with an average of 50. Based on the upcoming projects, there is an immediate need to hire three experienced engineers. By filling the gap, this will allow the new hires to come up to speed in time and work on the new upcoming assignments as soon as possible with little interruption. These positions will enhance the EPDD team’s ability to demonstrate innovative solutions rapidly and deliver our new flag ship product to more customers on time. The following job analysis and position descriptions, qualifiers, and requirements propose to meet the organizational goals.

Job Analysis for the Engineering and Product Delivery Team member

The Engineering and Product Delivery department proactively performed the job analysis, (Cascio, 2010) and identified the job requirements to fulfill the operational gap within the organization. Management conducted a job analysis and gathered information about the job requirements based on the observation method. Without interfering with job activities, the department watched and recorded several of the engineers performing their tasks and summarized the tasks performed, why the tasks were performed and how they were performed. For the field assignments that require the engineers to be in front of the customers, to determine the job requirements, management interviewed the best performers and analyzed surveys from the majority of the engineers. Another method used was the department managed to capture the jobs responsibilities, required the reviewers to perform some of the engineer’s tasks to