Readiness is not a question of job title alone. It is about whether you can show your own contribution at the required level through decisions, reasoning, responsibility and outcomes.
Start with five questions
- What engineering problem, risk or opportunity did you personally help define?
- Which decision, recommendation or technical position did you personally take responsibility for?
- What information, analysis, standards or constraints informed your judgement?
- What changed as a result, and how did you know?
- What did you learn, improve or do differently afterward?
What to collect before writing
Choose a small number of work examples that reveal the strongest part of your current level. Collect the facts that make them real: scope, limits, stakeholders, options, your remit, decision path, outcome and available evidence.
A useful warning sign
If every example begins with “we”, pauses at the decision point, or ends only with general project success, the evidence may be too broad. Start by separating the team context from your own role inside it.