Use this sample and step by step explanation to craft a meaningful employee performance feedback review for a development engineer. Find the right words with quality phrases.

A development engineer conceptualizes and designs manufactured goods to meet the goals of the company and the needs of the clients. He/she is in charge of the design team and the testing procedures as well as drafting manufacturing specifications, creating samples, and fine-tuning designs in readiness for production.

Other duties include conveying specifications of the designed projects for manufacturing purposes, improving development processes, finding ways to improve existing products in quality and performance, in charge of new products development processes, managing intellectual property by avoiding infringing patents and submitting patents for protection, keeps tab on market intelligence to design products that meet the desired specifications by customers and to develop methods required in development of new products.

Employee Performance Review Sample

Employee's Name: Title:
Review Period: __/__/__ to __/__/__ Employee SSN:
Work Location: Supervisor's Name:

Instructions

  1. Rating: Rate the employee against the core skills based on how well he/she demonstrates each skill. Give scores 1, 2, or 3 for each rating depending on the employee's performance.
  2. Comments: Use this area to give examples of employee's performance phrases. The phrases should describe how well an employee has performed on previously set goals based on the given core skill.
  3. Summary: Use this section to give a summary of the employee's strengths and areas for improvement or development. Recommend a step increase for an employee who has met the expectations and performance improvement plans for one who doesn't meet expectations.
  4. Human Resources Review: Human resources manager must examine and indicate whether he/she concurs with the evaluation and comments. If the manager agrees, then he/she must sign the evaluation form. If he/she doesn't concur, then he/she must provide reasons explaining why this is so.
  5. Signatures: Sign the evaluation form and give it to the employee to go through and answer the Self Evaluation Questions. Ask him/her to sign and date the evaluation form before giving it back to the human resources for filing.

Rating Meaning

The employee fails to perform the most important aspects of the job satisfactorily. Requires close guidance to carry out routine jobs. He/she needs significant improvement in all areas. Meetings should be held between the employee and the supervisor to discuss performance deficiencies.

1

Employee routinely meets and exceeds expectations in all areas of responsibility. Produces high-quality work that at times exceeds expectations. Consistently meets the most critical annual goals. Occasionally produces timely and accurate results.

2

The employee consistently and significantly exceeds the communicated expectations by producing exceptionally high-quality work. He/she demonstrates exceptional knowledge of his/her duties and is highly recognized by others as an authority in his/her area of work.

3

Supervisor's Feedback

Skill

Comments

Rating

KNOWLEDGE OF COMPANY PROCESSES: Knowledge of Company Processes is the in-depth understanding of a collection of related, structured activities that serve a particular goal for a group of customers or clients who are valuable to the enterprise.

Does not keep clients' contacts that can provide assistance or work-related information in future

Does not help other employees understand the strategic goals of the company and how their work relates to these

1

DECISION MAKING: Decision Making is the art of making choices by identifying a decision, gathering information and assessing alternative resolutions before settling on one.

Allows employees to be critical about ideas and suggests solutions to expand an idea

Asks a variety of people with various backgrounds for responses in order to evaluate how majority of other people view the decision

2

GIVING FEEDBACK: Giving Feedback is one of the most powerful tools to develop employees and improve performance through honest feedback of the work done best and areas that need improvement.

Views the "feedback meeting" as an opportunity to vent, rather than a time to discuss a specific issue and help the person improve in the future

Gives feedback that contains an implied threat and that makes a person feel as if their job is in jeopardy

1

DEDICATION TO WORK: Dedication to Work is a devotion or setting aside the scheduled time that you are required to work each day consistently without fail as well as being on time and giving 100% of your efforts to doing quality work.

Gives all the tasks intermittent attention rather than concentrated attention

Gets into trouble for demoralizing other workers who are giving it their best

1

EQUAL OPPORTUNITY AND DIVERSITY: Equal Opportunity and Diversity means having employees from a wide range of background that includes different ages, gender, ethnicity, sexual orientation, religious belief, educational background, physical ability and treating them equally.

Helps those who require assistance without checking their age, race, color or position

Always wears a smile while serving others no matter the situation

2

ETHICAL BEHAVIOR: Ethical Behavior is acting in policies that are consistent with what the society and individuals typically think are good morals or values.

Regards fairness as one of the critical needs in all the decisions made

Provides ongoing coaching to employees that increase their awareness on the importance of professional treatment in the workplace

2

MONITORING OTHERS: Monitoring others is tracking employee activities monitor the worker engagement with the workplace-related tasks.

Reads employees emails but does not notify them of the policy that allows their emails to be read

Documents the disciplinary actions but does not let employees sign them

1

PERSONAL RELATIONSHIPS: Personal Relationships is the relationship between individuals who have or have had a continuing relationship of any nature either professional or informal.

Tries to hide or shift blame to others when one makes an error instead of taking responsibility for own actions

Jumps into the issues or matters of other employees in order to "spread the fire" but not to rescue them

1

ROLE AWARENESS: Role Awareness is the ability to be informed of your role in a given environment as well as understand the expectations placed on a position and to see how they are met apparently.

Does not take the initiative to start new projects, create new opportunities or pitch new solutions for the company

Brags about all the things one can do but never delivers thus makes others upset or fail to meet their goals

1

SEEING POTENTIAL PROBLEMS: Seeing Potential Problems is the ability to structure the current situations and identify developments that could cause problems in the future.

Does not inform employees of changes that are about to be introduced thus makes them feel under pressure to react

Looks for the next product or service to sell rather than the next problem to solve thus fails to meet some of the customers' needs

1

Self Evaluation

Self Evaluation Question

Employee Comments

KNOWLEDGE OF COMPANY PROCESSES:

How do you prioritize customer's issues in order to ensure that service is provided to the customers even during critical periods?

Is there a time when you have encountered a problem due to lack of knowledge of your company processes? How was the problem solved?

[employee comments]
DECISION MAKING:

Is there a time when you have had to deal with a difficult customer? If yes, explain how you went about deciding on what strategy to employ when dealing with the customer

How do you involve your bosses and other employees when making an important decision?

[employee comments]
GIVING FEEDBACK:

Describe the most difficult performance review you have handled. What made it difficult and how did you go about it?

When do you give positive feedback to your employees or subordinates? Give an example of the last time you did

[employee comments]
DEDICATION TO WORK:

Are you available to do what is expected of you within a set timeline?

Are you accountable to your leaders delivering milestones as required?

[employee comments]
EQUAL OPPORTUNITY AND DIVERSITY:

Do you play the role of a peace ambassador in the workplace or you enjoy stirring conflicts?

Are you available when your colleagues need you to help them?

[employee comments]
ETHICAL BEHAVIOR:

Do you keep your word at all time or do you fail to be honest?

Are you most likely to bend the truth to protect yourself?

[employee comments]
MONITORING OTHERS:

What are some of the monitoring policies you have in your company? How do you make sure the employees follow the policy of timekeeping?

How do you make sure that monitoring does not kill employees morale or make them nervous?

[employee comments]
PERSONAL RELATIONSHIPS:

How do you establish rapport with other employees? What are some of the things that you have done to gain their confidence?

Describe a time when you have met resistance while trying to build a relationship with a colleague. How did you deal with it?

[employee comments]
ROLE AWARENESS:

What things have you done to improve your knowledge of your position in the company? How has this benefited the company?

Explain how your department has benefited from employees being more aware of their roles. How has this benefited the company at large?

[employee comments]
SEEING POTENTIAL PROBLEMS:

Describe a time when you have been able to see a huge future problem. What made this possible and how did solve it?

How do you set projects deadlines and milestones to make sure that employees meet them successfully?

[employee comments]

Summary

Sections 1-4: To be completed by the supervisor

Section 5: To be completed by the employee

1. Exceeds Job Related Expectations

2. Areas to improve

3. Goals completed since last performance feedback

4. Goals for next period

5. Employee comments

Signatures

I acknowledge that I discussed this performance feedback with my supervisor. My signature does not mean that I agree or disagree with this appraisal.
Employee: Date:
Supervisor: Date:
Human Resources: Date:

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