I don't know how common this usage is, but where I work, we'd say that the engineer is "responsible" and the manager is "accountable." http://en.wikipedia.org/

I don't know how common this usage is, but where I work, we'd say that the engineer is "responsible" and the manager is "accountable." http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Responsibility_assignment_matrix http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Responsibility_assignment_matri...