Material Handling Engineer Interview Questions
Go Back1. How do you set goals for yourself?
2. Tell me about a time when you had to work under pressure.
3. How do you approach learning about a new industry?
4. Do you prefer office work or field work?
5. Tell me about a time when you made a mistake.
6. What are your greatest strengths?
7. Tell me about yourself.
8. What is your greatest weakness?
9. How do you see your previous work experience benefitting you in this position?
10. How do you see your education benefitting you in this position?
11. How do you delegate tasks?
12. How would you describe your leadership style?
13. How do you solve problems beyond your capabilities?
14. Are you more comfortable with verbal or written communication?
15. How would you approach a situation where a project team member disagreed with your idea?
16. Imagine we are at the beginning stages of a project. The customer has defined their needs and we are starting to come up with solutions. What is one way we could quickly come up with several solutions?
17. Do you have any previous safety training?
18. Imagine you are onsite and a piece of equipment our company recently installed isn't working right. How would you troubleshoot the problem?
19. Imagine you are using AutoCAD and you are given the task of creating a plan to fit as many warehouse racks into a given floor area as possible. How do you proceed?
20. Imagine you are in a situation where you are an onsite field representative expecting the delivery of some warehouse racking. The delivery is late and the project is in danger of falling off schedule. What do you do?
21. What do you think are the greatest rewards of working with a team?
22. Have you ever worked for a manager with whom you disagreed?
23. What do you feel is the individual's role when working as part of a team?
24. What do you think is the most important part of communication?
25. Tell me about a time when you were part of a group project that didn't go well.
26. What do you know about material handling, warehousing equipment, and logistics?
27. What drafting software have you used?
28. What do you know about how a plan set is put together?
29. How would you describe the movement of products through a facility that contains our equipment?
30. How familiar are you with Programmable Logic Controls (PLC)?