Benefits of Contract Engineering
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- Expand and leverage the capacity of key staff members
Your key staff members are probably stretched to the limit. If you could add a contract engineer and allocate only 10% of the hours of a key staff member for supervision, you are leveraging that staff member by a factor of 10. The contract engineer brings their capabilities to the project while the key staff member is able to add the company and industry specific requirements.
- Short-cut the learning curve in new technologies.
The correct contract engineer is already past the learning curve on new technologies. So the inevitable start up tasks can be skipped on your project. Also, the contract engineer probably has several other new technologies under their belt
- Avoid the commitments of adding permanent staff.
The contract engineer is ready to start a project and upon its completion the contract engineer is no longer consuming budget dollars. Another consideration is that you have complete budget control and can pull-the-plug on any contracted effort at any time.
- Avoid the overhead of adding permanent staff.
Vacation days, sick days, medical benefits, profit sharing........ The list goes on. All these known and other hidden overhead costs are eliminated using a contract engineer.
- Bring a diverse experience in design
The contract engineer works with a broad array of designs in a broad field of markets. You are able to benefit from this breadth of background and explore the limits or extremes of any design.
- Complete prototype and pilot runs without disrupting your operations.
The contract engineer working off site, using their normal vendor chain can complete tasks such as purchasing, prototype or pilot production runs. This activity is accomplished without disruption to your on going operation.
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