The phrase "competent job" is correct and usable in written English.
It means to do a job or task well, so it can be used in a variety of situations. For example, you could say "The team did a competent job of preparing the room for the event."
NASA, he said, "did a very competent job".
For even the most competent job hunter, interviews are tough.
The judges identified two areas where the MTF had manifestly failed to do a competent job.
As the Staten Island district attorney for seven years, Mr. Donovan has done a competent job.
"Can I say we all feel we're doing a competent job?" Vanbiesbrouck said.
As one government source put it, "For teachers who are just doing a competent job, they will lose nothing.
I had for weeks done a half-competent job of bobbing and weaving from the caustic haymakers of fear and loathing the political heavyweights were throwing our way.
Donald Spotos new biography isnt nearly so ambitious or stimulating as Manns its mostly a competent clip job but the real contrast between Enchantment and Kate lies in the emotional mainsprings of their subjects.
David Niven: The obvious fact is that to deliver a good, competent, supportive job to those you're charged with helping – in any of the caring professions – you've got to have the time to do it and not charge round spinning plates on the end of sticks because you're underresourced, undersupported and constantly in a high state of anxiety that you're going to be criticised for missing something.
She probably does as competent a job as possible to convince you that she is not simply a puppet controlled by the tech-toady mayor who appointed her.
Voters, particularly women and easterners, tend to find the relaxed, punchy Mr Schröder more likeable than his earnest rival, but Mr Stoiber is considered more competent on jobs and the economy.
