Career Overlap Occupation record
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Where an aerospace engineering technician can go next

5 destinations recorded, ranked by how much of the target role an aerospace engineering technician already meets. The closer to the top of Table 1, the less there is to learn.

Aerospace engineering technicians work with aerospace engineers to operate, maintain and test equipment used on aircraft and spacecraft. They review blueprints and instructions to determine test specifications and procedures. They use software to make sure that parts of a spacecraft or aircraft are functioning properly. They record test procedures and results, and make recommendations for changes.

Also known as aeroplane technologist, aeronautical technologist, aircraft engineering technician, aero spatial technologist, spacecraft engineering technician, spaceship technologist, aircraft technologist, spaceship engineering technician, spacecraft technologist, aeroplane engineering technician, aeronautics engineering technician.

Technicians and associate professionals 50 skills on file 5 career moves 3 above 60% overlap Closest: rolling stock engineering technician, 63%

Fig. 2 · Career map 5 nearest · ESCO v1.2.1
rolling stock engineering tec… 63% covered pneumatic engineering technic… 63% covered marine engineering technician 61% covered mechanical engineering techni… 60% covered automotive engineering techni… 59% covered aerospace engineering tec… You are here
  • 70% and above · short step
  • 50 to 70% · real move
  • Below 50% · substantial retraining
The 5 nearest destinations from aerospace engineering technician, each one a link to that move’s record. Distance from the centre is how much retraining the move takes; the figure on each is how much of that role an aerospace engineering technician already covers. All 5 are listed in the tables below.
Table 1

Table 1 · Within reach

Table 2

Table 2 · What the job itself asks for

An aerospace engineering technician needs 18 required skills and areas of knowledge. These 10 are the ones fewest other jobs share, so they say the most about the work.

Required skill Area
  • follow industry codes of practice for aviation safety assisting and caring
  • ensure aircraft compliance with regulation assisting and caring
  • aircraft mechanics engineering, manufacturing and construction
  • material mechanics engineering, manufacturing and construction
  • common aviation safety regulations business, administration and law
  • multimedia systems arts and humanities
  • ICT software specifications information and communication technologies (icts)
  • CAE software information and communication technologies (icts)
  • execute analytical mathematical calculations information skills
  • physics natural sciences, mathematics and statistics
Table 3

Table 3 · Jobs that lead here

The reverse view: occupations whose skills already cover much of what an aerospace engineering technician does. The figure is how much of this job each one brings.

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Aerospace engineering technician is filed under Technicians and associate professionals, ISCO major group 3. The full index lists all ten groups.

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How these figures were compiled

Overlap is how much of the target role is already part of an aerospace engineering technician’s work. It is directional: the figure for the reverse move differs. Every entry above opens the full comparison for that move: what carries over, what is missing, and where to start. The full method.