What to do with first Great Engineer?

[yogiebere]

Been playing Arabia (Tradition first, Pangaea, Standard, Emperor) and getting first GE somewhere in the 70-90 turn mark. What do I do with him?

I can't seem to stay ahead in science (even with Wisdom) to snag a Wonder and the GE tile isn't terribly great, basically a mine with a few extra hammers.

 

[CppMaster]

Then plant it for those hammers. Later it will boost bulbing GEs for wonders.

 

[Moi Magnus]

Use it as to make a manufacture on a ressource accessible by both your capital and another city.
If you can't, use it on a tile for another city.

1) Your secondary cities lack hammers to devellop correctly
2) Every manufactory increase by 20% the number of hammer given by GE. So as long as you don't have few manufactories, the rush ability of the GE is not very usefull.
3) As tradition, you will work a lot of specialist, so puting GP improvements on ressources is the best way to use them, and you have to put them accessible to multiple cities if possible.