New problem solving is blended with known problem solving.
It is thoroughly knowing how things are working now, making things function as effectively as possible, but still having ideas about causing them to function better in new ways. It is sticking with a procedure until insight, hunch, or savvy comes up with an idea. This is engineering in the industrial and technical sense. Many traits are involved. Systems engineering is moderately motivated for this person, so all of those traits are not strongly or equally motivated.