Interview Preparaton: 1. Question: Tell Me About A Time When You Disagreed With Your Supervisor and How You Handled It?

INTERVIEW PREPARATON
1. Question: Tell me about a time when you disagreed with

your supervisor and how you handled it?
Situation: it happened that the repaired pump was always having problems
within a very short period. My manager thought I did not give the right
replacement procedure for the pumps and that was why there was
continuous failure or probably the technicians were not performing the well.
Task: To convince the Manager that I was doing the right thing.
Actions: I researched the internet and checked the bearings and seals for
the pump at the SKF website where the life span of the pumps were average
5 years. Longer so I printed this results and spoke with my supervisor that
the problem was the quality of materials and parts we ordered not the
procedure of work by the technicians.
Result: saved company money for maintenance, got client satisfaction,

reduced down time, helped the technicians to keep their Job, keep my
integrity with the manager.
2. Question: Describe a situation in your past job where

you could structure your own work schedule. What did
you do?
Situation: it happened that in my previous job as a project engineer for the
oil and gas facilities that I had to plan my work.
Task: The following tasks were allocated to materials and spare parts
management. Developing work procedure for work request on rotating and
static equipments. Project control and monitoring
Actions: first I recognized that I had 8 hrs a day. Take a walk around the
Plant. The first thing I did is to prioritize the jobs, based on time, safety and
high production risk areas. Take a walk around the Plant. Determining who
will do the job, based on individual schedule. Controlling and managing
schedule/cost per month.
Result: Meet deadlines, avoided down time.

3. Question: Tell me about a time when you had to initiate
a new process or procedure?
Situation: It happened that we were looking for ways of reducing cost and
maximizing resources.
Task: To reorganize and minimize cost. Technicians and technologists had

idle time; cost of labor was high, cost of equipment usage like cranes and
machines was high.
Actions: I reorganized the system, by using the primavera (P6), I was able
to re aligning organizational breakdown structure, project structure,
resources (Positions) and roles (tasks to do). Analysis with wrench time
(feedback with respect to when a job was completed and basic personal
experiences from technicians), work breakdown structure of jobs and
projects. Records of time to be able to evaluate performance and
productivity with respect to work. Prioritizing jobs from high to low, Grouping
the plant layout into high risk zones and putting emphasis on the plant areas
with very important equipments such as boilers.
Result: Saved company money for maintenance, faster way /method of

performing work client satisfaction, my manager was very happy.
4. Question: Describe the biggest mistake you made what

you learned from it and how you applied that learning?
Situation: There was a time I was busy with budget of the plant at the end
of the year. I called the technologist in charge and he gave me the
impression that everything was alright with the plant. So I did not go back to
the plant to take a walk around the plant before going home, to make sure
that everything was alright. Unfortunately, after 2 hrs, it happened that we
had an alarm in the generator room based on the fact that smoke detector
was triggered in cooling system in the generator had no water.
Actions: switch off the generator, Coolant water and check the vanes/tanks
to be sure
Result: I learnt to be very thorough even though everything sounds and
looks good I should take a look around and not jump into assumptions until
personally verified.
5. Question: Describe a situation where you worked on a

team where there were conflicts in personality or
systems and the approach you took to resolving these?
Situation: It happened that I worked with a multicultural team on a project
product development. Some of the team members refused to take my
suggestions can offer solutions.
Task: To work as a team and solve problems together.
Actions: I had to work with them gave very good suggestions to them but
whenever we went to the professor He was always commenting on my
suggestions and my decisions
Result: Most solution ended up with me and the professor kept referring to
my work and with time they agreed with my expertise. We are still friends
today. I learned sometimes it might take time to get the level of co-operation
to make a project work effectively especially when there are personal
differences.
6. Question: Describe a situation where you worked on a

team where there were conflicts in personality or
systems and the approach you took to resolving these?
Situation: It happened that we were in a team, were application of getting
results was based on experience and not documented. Conflicts arose based
on no significant documentation, production team just leaves the work,
usage of equipments we keep replacing parts regularly, no safety procedure
no and the approach to solving the problem was

machines was high.
Actions: I talked with each people involved personally and heard heir views
and after we reached a better way individually .I now called everyone
together to explain to everybody so everybody felt very comfortable.
Result: better working relationships, better productivity, better
communication and understanding.
7. Question: Tell me about a time you had to win your

manager over to your way of thinking?
Situation: It happened that we were going to be behind schedules and we
needed to be on time. I had planned the whole unit from start to finish.
Task: To convince the manager that what I was doing was right to make
sure we were ahead.
Actions: I had to generate the schedule report of 4 weeks look ahead,

activity budgets, activity status reports, resource usage, earned value
analysis, schedule performance index
Calculating the pessimistic value and optimistic value

performing work client satisfaction, my manager was very happy. Ability to
meet deadlines, Work package: equipments changing of seals.
8. Question: Describe a situation were a co-worker or

supervisor had expectations that you felt were unfair
and unrealistic. How did you deal with that?
Situation: It happened that a particular technologist was not relieved of his
duty and had complained and asked for help consistently. He had taken
about 2 months off.
Task: I had to look for ways of given him rest with his family
Actions: I spoke to my supervisor about the problem but he refused to

accept any solution and I felt he was been abused .
Result: I decided to consider another method, I explained to the

management and told them I felt it was to look for contract staff allowed
him to go to work for 3 months . So I allowed him to go for leave and also go
for his 1 month backlog to be able to switch worker.
9. Question: Describe a decision that you made that were

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productivity with respect to work. Prioritizing jobs from high to low.

10. Question: Describe the biggest mistake you made what

you learned from it and how you applied that learning?

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INTERVIEW PREPARATON

1. Question: Tell me about a time when you disagreed with

Result: saved company money for maintenance, got client satisfaction,

2. Question: Describe a situation in your past job where

Result: Meet deadlines, avoided down time.

Task: To reorganize and minimize cost. Technicians and technologists had

Result: Saved company money for maintenance, faster way /method of

4. Question: Describe the biggest mistake you made what

5. Question: Describe a situation where you worked on a

Task: To work as a team and solve problems together.

6. Question: Describe a situation where you worked on a

Task: To reorganize and minimize cost. Technicians and technologists had

7. Question: Tell me about a time you had to win your

Actions: I had to generate the schedule report of 4 weeks look ahead,

Calculating the pessimistic value and optimistic value

Result: Saved company money for maintenance, faster way /method of

8. Question: Describe a situation were a co-worker or

Actions: I spoke to my supervisor about the problem but he refused to

Result: I decided to consider another method, I explained to the

9. Question: Describe a decision that you made that were

Task: To reorganize and minimize cost. Technicians and technologists had

Result: Saved company money for maintenance, faster way /method of

10. Question: Describe the biggest mistake you made what

Task: To reorganize and minimize cost. Technicians and technologists had

Result: Saved company money for maintenance, faster way /method of

1. Question: Describe the biggest mistake you made

Task: To reorganize and minimize cost. Technicians and technologists had

Result: Saved company money for maintenance, faster way /method of

1. Question: Describe the biggest mistake you made

Task: To reorganize and minimize cost. Technicians and technologists had

Result: Saved company money for maintenance, faster way /method of

Task: To reorganize and minimize cost. Technicians and technologists had

Result: Saved company money for maintenance, faster way /method of

1. Question: Describe the biggest mistake you made

Task: To reorganize and minimize cost. Technicians and technologists had

1. Question: Describe the biggest mistake you made

Task: To reorganize and minimize cost. Technicians and technologists had

Result: Saved company money for maintenance, faster way /method of

1. Question: Describe the biggest mistake you made

Task: To reorganize and minimize cost. Technicians and technologists had

Result: Saved company money for maintenance, faster way /method of

1. Question: Describe the biggest mistake you made

Task: To reorganize and minimize cost. Technicians and technologists had

Result: Saved company money for maintenance, faster way /method of

1. Question: Describe the biggest mistake you made

Task: To reorganize and minimize cost. Technicians and technologists had

Result: Saved company money for maintenance, faster way /method of

1. Question: Describe the biggest mistake you made

Task: To reorganize and minimize cost. Technicians and technologists had

Result: Saved company money for maintenance, faster way /method of

1. Question: Describe the biggest mistake you made

Task: To reorganize and minimize cost. Technicians and technologists had

Result: Saved company money for maintenance, faster way /method of

1. Question: Describe the biggest mistake you made

Task: To reorganize and minimize cost. Technicians and technologists had

Result: Saved company money for maintenance, faster way /method of

1. Question: Describe the biggest mistake you made