1.项目工程师：
顾名思义，项目工程师就是一个专业或具有组织能力，工程知识和项目管理能力的人或工程师，能够执行所有任务并获得职业上的成功。
2.规划工程师：
顾名思义，应用工程师仅仅是负责确定和开发合适且成功的施工和工程方法以及帮助团队按计划交付项目的人员或员工。
项目工程师与计划工程师之间的区别：
| Project Engineer | Planning Engineer |
|---|---|
| It mainly focuses on project construction works. | It mainly focuses on project planning. |
| Skills required for project engineer includes good communication skills, working experience, supervision skills, leadership skills, etc. | Skills required for project engineer includes good communication skills, ability to explain design ideas and plans, good organizational skills, etc. |
| Their responsibilities includes perform quality control of work, assign responsibilities, motivate and coordinate project team, etc. | Their responsibilities includes understanding of safety protocols, ability to focus under pressure and meeting deadlines, strong multitasking abilities, etc. |
| Factors affecting project engineer performance includes poor managerial skills, lack of decision making ability, lack of design and visualizations software knowledge, etc. | Factors affecting planning engineer performance includes poor management skills, lack of thinking and analytical skills, no focus, etc. |
| Its process include project planning, preparing, scheduling, coordination and monitoring all assigned projects. | Its process include managing, designing, specifying, delivering, maintaining and improving processes of production of products or software’s or machines. |
| Its main objective is to prepare various strategies for all planning activities for projects. | Its main objective is to design as well as improve software quality and performance. |
| Its benefit includes increase safety, improve team performance, increase motivation, allows better communication, etc. | Its benefit includes risk assessment, address risk and quality, provide support to operations, manage all communications, etc. |
| Project engineer tasks are more difficult than Planning Engineer tasks. | Planning Engineer tasks are less difficult than Project Engineer tasks. |
| It cannot handle role of Planning Engineer. | Its role is limited and therefore cannot handle role of project engineer. |