"A degree of seniority at the highest level of performance"

Hi,
is there a way to express this example (written in bold) in a simpler way "The technician often works alone and is the link between the employer, the customer, and the manufacturer and can involve a degree of seniority at the highest level of performance." The example is taken from https://worldskills.org/skills/id/432/. What does it mean?

A high-performing technician is sometimes in a senior position.

Is it possible to express the same idea ("a degree of seniority at the highest level of performance") in a simpler way, using other kinds of expressions, so that the sentence would otherwise remain original?

JaneSister23 said:

Is it possible to express the same idea ("a degree of seniority at the highest level of performance") in a simpler way, using other kinds of expressions, so that the sentence would otherwise remain original?

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If it's important to retain both pieces of information "a degree of seniority" and "at the highest level of performance", there's not really a way to shorten it. I suppose you could ditch "of performance". Why do you want to shorten something that someone else wrote?

I'm just searching for a way to explain the contents of the sentence to a student in a simpler way. Somehow I find it very difficult .

Where I am from "seniority" refers to length of service. However, when they use "degree of seniority" they seem to be talking about level of responsibility.

Tarheel said:

Where I am from "seniority" refers to length of service. However, when they use "degree of seniority" they seem to be talking about level of responsibility.

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Yes, as in the term 'senior management'.