engineer

noun

• 1a person who designs, builds, or maintains engines, machines, or structures.
• a person qualified in a branch of engineering, especially as a professional:an aeronautical engineer

• 2a person who controls an engine, especially on an aircraft or ship.
• North American a train driver.

• 3a skilful contriver or originator of something:the prime engineer of the approach

verb

• 1design and build (a machine or structure):the men who engineered the tunnel
• modify (an organism) by manipulating its genetic material: (as adjective, with submodifier engineered)genetically engineered plants

• 2skilfully arrange for (something) to occur:she engineered another meeting with him