Can I use the word “Senior” as part of a job title directly in German?












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I prepare my CV in German and I want to say Senior Design Engineer and Senior Engineer.



On Stack Exchange, I saw that erfahrener was used for senior.
However, on the Internet, mostly, people direct senior directly, for example:




Senior Engineer → Senior Ingenieur




How can you say Senior Design Engineer and Senior Engineer in German?






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  • Sidenote: Consider thinking about whether you want to translate the title in the first place. Probably everybody reading your CV can understand the English version of your title and it is more accurate than any translation can ever be.

    – Wrzlprmft♦
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I prepare my CV in German and I want to say Senior Design Engineer and Senior Engineer.



On Stack Exchange, I saw that erfahrener was used for senior.
However, on the Internet, mostly, people direct senior directly, for example:




Senior Engineer → Senior Ingenieur




How can you say Senior Design Engineer and Senior Engineer in German?






translation anglicism







share|improve this question

























  • Sidenote: Consider thinking about whether you want to translate the title in the first place. Probably everybody reading your CV can understand the English version of your title and it is more accurate than any translation can ever be.

    – Wrzlprmft♦
    28 mins ago














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I prepare my CV in German and I want to say Senior Design Engineer and Senior Engineer.



On Stack Exchange, I saw that erfahrener was used for senior.
However, on the Internet, mostly, people direct senior directly, for example:




Senior Engineer → Senior Ingenieur




How can you say Senior Design Engineer and Senior Engineer in German?






translation anglicism







share|improve this question
















I prepare my CV in German and I want to say Senior Design Engineer and Senior Engineer.



On Stack Exchange, I saw that erfahrener was used for senior.
However, on the Internet, mostly, people direct senior directly, for example:




Senior Engineer → Senior Ingenieur




How can you say Senior Design Engineer and Senior Engineer in German?






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  • Sidenote: Consider thinking about whether you want to translate the title in the first place. Probably everybody reading your CV can understand the English version of your title and it is more accurate than any translation can ever be.

    – Wrzlprmft♦
    28 mins ago



















  • Sidenote: Consider thinking about whether you want to translate the title in the first place. Probably everybody reading your CV can understand the English version of your title and it is more accurate than any translation can ever be.

    – Wrzlprmft♦
    28 mins ago

















Sidenote: Consider thinking about whether you want to translate the title in the first place. Probably everybody reading your CV can understand the English version of your title and it is more accurate than any translation can ever be.

– Wrzlprmft♦
28 mins ago





Sidenote: Consider thinking about whether you want to translate the title in the first place. Probably everybody reading your CV can understand the English version of your title and it is more accurate than any translation can ever be.

– Wrzlprmft♦
28 mins ago










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If you present yourself as




Senior Design Engineer




i.e. with an English job title, the Senior is of course fine.



If you want to use German terms you can say




Leitender Entwicklungsingenieur *)




but that would be pretty unusual. Today, in the larger industries, almost everything is called by English names, just glued together with some German grammar. The big boss in a company is today almost invariably a CEO, nobody calls himself a Generaldirektor any more (that's a term from about 100 years ago).



Still, if your job title is not that specific, you might prefer a genuine German title such as




Leitender Ingenieur :-)




instead of




Senior Engineer :-(




And of course, for jobs that have traditional, well-established German titles you use those. You would not present yourself as a




Baker, Carpenter, Machinist




but as a




Bäcker, Tischler, Dreher (or Industriemechaniker or whatever)





*) If that's what it is. I am not in design engineering. But dictionaries say design engineer is Entwicklungsingenieur. I personally would have guessed Produktdesigner, but I may be totally wrong with that idea.






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  • I agree with Christian's answer - terms not often used today are Senior Engineer= Oberingenieur or Leitender Ingenieur (as said above) and for Senior Design Engineer = Leitender Konstrukteur.

    – help-info.de
    9 hours ago








  • 1





    With job titles, it's always a good idea to look into the requirements needed to use a specific title. For example, I know of an "Ingenieur" who had to go to court to clarify whether or not he is allowed to call himself "Diplom-Ingenieur". Another example is the difference between "Fußpfleger" and "Podologe". And a German politician had to stop referring to himself as "Doktor" some time ago, because he got his Ph. D. from a foreign university and it wasn't recognized in Germany. Additionally, it's worth to mention that "Senior" on its own refers to senior citizens :D

    – Henning Kockerbeck
    8 hours ago











  • A "senior engineer" is not necessarily a "Leitender Ingenieur". "Leitend" very clearly implies (non-technical) authority, whereas "senior" doesn't.

    – tofro
    40 mins ago












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If you present yourself as




Senior Design Engineer




i.e. with an English job title, the Senior is of course fine.



If you want to use German terms you can say




Leitender Entwicklungsingenieur *)




but that would be pretty unusual. Today, in the larger industries, almost everything is called by English names, just glued together with some German grammar. The big boss in a company is today almost invariably a CEO, nobody calls himself a Generaldirektor any more (that's a term from about 100 years ago).



Still, if your job title is not that specific, you might prefer a genuine German title such as




Leitender Ingenieur :-)




instead of




Senior Engineer :-(




And of course, for jobs that have traditional, well-established German titles you use those. You would not present yourself as a




Baker, Carpenter, Machinist




but as a




Bäcker, Tischler, Dreher (or Industriemechaniker or whatever)





*) If that's what it is. I am not in design engineering. But dictionaries say design engineer is Entwicklungsingenieur. I personally would have guessed Produktdesigner, but I may be totally wrong with that idea.






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  • I agree with Christian's answer - terms not often used today are Senior Engineer= Oberingenieur or Leitender Ingenieur (as said above) and for Senior Design Engineer = Leitender Konstrukteur.

    – help-info.de
    9 hours ago








  • 1





    With job titles, it's always a good idea to look into the requirements needed to use a specific title. For example, I know of an "Ingenieur" who had to go to court to clarify whether or not he is allowed to call himself "Diplom-Ingenieur". Another example is the difference between "Fußpfleger" and "Podologe". And a German politician had to stop referring to himself as "Doktor" some time ago, because he got his Ph. D. from a foreign university and it wasn't recognized in Germany. Additionally, it's worth to mention that "Senior" on its own refers to senior citizens :D

    – Henning Kockerbeck
    8 hours ago











  • A "senior engineer" is not necessarily a "Leitender Ingenieur". "Leitend" very clearly implies (non-technical) authority, whereas "senior" doesn't.

    – tofro
    40 mins ago
















5














If you present yourself as




Senior Design Engineer




i.e. with an English job title, the Senior is of course fine.



If you want to use German terms you can say




Leitender Entwicklungsingenieur *)




but that would be pretty unusual. Today, in the larger industries, almost everything is called by English names, just glued together with some German grammar. The big boss in a company is today almost invariably a CEO, nobody calls himself a Generaldirektor any more (that's a term from about 100 years ago).



Still, if your job title is not that specific, you might prefer a genuine German title such as




Leitender Ingenieur :-)




instead of




Senior Engineer :-(




And of course, for jobs that have traditional, well-established German titles you use those. You would not present yourself as a




Baker, Carpenter, Machinist




but as a




Bäcker, Tischler, Dreher (or Industriemechaniker or whatever)





*) If that's what it is. I am not in design engineering. But dictionaries say design engineer is Entwicklungsingenieur. I personally would have guessed Produktdesigner, but I may be totally wrong with that idea.






share|improve this answer


























  • I agree with Christian's answer - terms not often used today are Senior Engineer= Oberingenieur or Leitender Ingenieur (as said above) and for Senior Design Engineer = Leitender Konstrukteur.

    – help-info.de
    9 hours ago








  • 1





    With job titles, it's always a good idea to look into the requirements needed to use a specific title. For example, I know of an "Ingenieur" who had to go to court to clarify whether or not he is allowed to call himself "Diplom-Ingenieur". Another example is the difference between "Fußpfleger" and "Podologe". And a German politician had to stop referring to himself as "Doktor" some time ago, because he got his Ph. D. from a foreign university and it wasn't recognized in Germany. Additionally, it's worth to mention that "Senior" on its own refers to senior citizens :D

    – Henning Kockerbeck
    8 hours ago











  • A "senior engineer" is not necessarily a "Leitender Ingenieur". "Leitend" very clearly implies (non-technical) authority, whereas "senior" doesn't.

    – tofro
    40 mins ago














5












5








5







If you present yourself as




Senior Design Engineer




i.e. with an English job title, the Senior is of course fine.



If you want to use German terms you can say




Leitender Entwicklungsingenieur *)




but that would be pretty unusual. Today, in the larger industries, almost everything is called by English names, just glued together with some German grammar. The big boss in a company is today almost invariably a CEO, nobody calls himself a Generaldirektor any more (that's a term from about 100 years ago).



Still, if your job title is not that specific, you might prefer a genuine German title such as




Leitender Ingenieur :-)




instead of




Senior Engineer :-(




And of course, for jobs that have traditional, well-established German titles you use those. You would not present yourself as a




Baker, Carpenter, Machinist




but as a




Bäcker, Tischler, Dreher (or Industriemechaniker or whatever)





*) If that's what it is. I am not in design engineering. But dictionaries say design engineer is Entwicklungsingenieur. I personally would have guessed Produktdesigner, but I may be totally wrong with that idea.






share|improve this answer















If you present yourself as




Senior Design Engineer




i.e. with an English job title, the Senior is of course fine.



If you want to use German terms you can say




Leitender Entwicklungsingenieur *)




but that would be pretty unusual. Today, in the larger industries, almost everything is called by English names, just glued together with some German grammar. The big boss in a company is today almost invariably a CEO, nobody calls himself a Generaldirektor any more (that's a term from about 100 years ago).



Still, if your job title is not that specific, you might prefer a genuine German title such as




Leitender Ingenieur :-)




instead of




Senior Engineer :-(




And of course, for jobs that have traditional, well-established German titles you use those. You would not present yourself as a




Baker, Carpenter, Machinist




but as a




Bäcker, Tischler, Dreher (or Industriemechaniker or whatever)





*) If that's what it is. I am not in design engineering. But dictionaries say design engineer is Entwicklungsingenieur. I personally would have guessed Produktdesigner, but I may be totally wrong with that idea.







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  • I agree with Christian's answer - terms not often used today are Senior Engineer= Oberingenieur or Leitender Ingenieur (as said above) and for Senior Design Engineer = Leitender Konstrukteur.

    – help-info.de
    9 hours ago








  • 1





    With job titles, it's always a good idea to look into the requirements needed to use a specific title. For example, I know of an "Ingenieur" who had to go to court to clarify whether or not he is allowed to call himself "Diplom-Ingenieur". Another example is the difference between "Fußpfleger" and "Podologe". And a German politician had to stop referring to himself as "Doktor" some time ago, because he got his Ph. D. from a foreign university and it wasn't recognized in Germany. Additionally, it's worth to mention that "Senior" on its own refers to senior citizens :D

    – Henning Kockerbeck
    8 hours ago











  • A "senior engineer" is not necessarily a "Leitender Ingenieur". "Leitend" very clearly implies (non-technical) authority, whereas "senior" doesn't.

    – tofro
    40 mins ago



















  • I agree with Christian's answer - terms not often used today are Senior Engineer= Oberingenieur or Leitender Ingenieur (as said above) and for Senior Design Engineer = Leitender Konstrukteur.

    – help-info.de
    9 hours ago








  • 1





    With job titles, it's always a good idea to look into the requirements needed to use a specific title. For example, I know of an "Ingenieur" who had to go to court to clarify whether or not he is allowed to call himself "Diplom-Ingenieur". Another example is the difference between "Fußpfleger" and "Podologe". And a German politician had to stop referring to himself as "Doktor" some time ago, because he got his Ph. D. from a foreign university and it wasn't recognized in Germany. Additionally, it's worth to mention that "Senior" on its own refers to senior citizens :D

    – Henning Kockerbeck
    8 hours ago











  • A "senior engineer" is not necessarily a "Leitender Ingenieur". "Leitend" very clearly implies (non-technical) authority, whereas "senior" doesn't.

    – tofro
    40 mins ago

















I agree with Christian's answer - terms not often used today are Senior Engineer= Oberingenieur or Leitender Ingenieur (as said above) and for Senior Design Engineer = Leitender Konstrukteur.

– help-info.de
9 hours ago







I agree with Christian's answer - terms not often used today are Senior Engineer= Oberingenieur or Leitender Ingenieur (as said above) and for Senior Design Engineer = Leitender Konstrukteur.

– help-info.de
9 hours ago






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1





With job titles, it's always a good idea to look into the requirements needed to use a specific title. For example, I know of an "Ingenieur" who had to go to court to clarify whether or not he is allowed to call himself "Diplom-Ingenieur". Another example is the difference between "Fußpfleger" and "Podologe". And a German politician had to stop referring to himself as "Doktor" some time ago, because he got his Ph. D. from a foreign university and it wasn't recognized in Germany. Additionally, it's worth to mention that "Senior" on its own refers to senior citizens :D

– Henning Kockerbeck
8 hours ago





With job titles, it's always a good idea to look into the requirements needed to use a specific title. For example, I know of an "Ingenieur" who had to go to court to clarify whether or not he is allowed to call himself "Diplom-Ingenieur". Another example is the difference between "Fußpfleger" and "Podologe". And a German politician had to stop referring to himself as "Doktor" some time ago, because he got his Ph. D. from a foreign university and it wasn't recognized in Germany. Additionally, it's worth to mention that "Senior" on its own refers to senior citizens :D

– Henning Kockerbeck
8 hours ago













A "senior engineer" is not necessarily a "Leitender Ingenieur". "Leitend" very clearly implies (non-technical) authority, whereas "senior" doesn't.

– tofro
40 mins ago





A "senior engineer" is not necessarily a "Leitender Ingenieur". "Leitend" very clearly implies (non-technical) authority, whereas "senior" doesn't.

– tofro
40 mins ago


















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