Where an agricultural engineer can go next
5 destinations recorded, ranked by how much of the target role an agricultural engineer already meets. The closer to the top of Table 1, the less there is to learn.
Agricultural engineers intervene in a variety of matters within the agriculture field in combination with engineering concepts. They design and develop machinery and equipment for an efficient and sustainable exploitation of the land. They advise on the use of resources in agricultural sites comprising the usage of water and soil, harvesting methods, and waste management.
Also known as agricultural technology engineer, agricultural landscape engineer, agricultural technology engineering expert, agricultural technology engineering specialist, agricultural technology engineering consultant, agricultural engineering expert, agriculture engineer, agricultural engineering consultant, agricultural engineering adviser, agricultural consultant engineer, agricultural technology engineering adviser, agricultural engineering specialist.
Professionals 44 skills on file 5 career moves 0 above 60% overlap Closest: robotics engineer, 50%
- 70% and above · short step
- 50 to 70% · real move
- Below 50% · substantial retraining
Table 2 · A bigger jump
Possible, but expect real retraining rather than a sideways step.
Table 3 · What the job itself asks for
An agricultural engineer needs 14 required skills and areas of knowledge. These 10 are the ones fewest other jobs share, so they say the most about the work.
- legislation in agriculture business, administration and law
- e-agriculture agriculture, forestry, fisheries and veterinary
- execute feasibility study information skills
- assess financial viability information skills
- approve engineering design communication, collaboration and creativity
- mechanical engineering engineering, manufacturing and construction
- use technical drawing software working with computers
- technical drawings engineering, manufacturing and construction
- adjust engineering designs communication, collaboration and creativity
- engineering processes engineering, manufacturing and construction
Table 4 · Jobs that lead here
The reverse view: occupations whose skills already cover much of what an agricultural engineer does. The figure is how much of this job each one brings.
- robotics engineer 61% covered · difficulty 42.9
- heating, ventilation, air conditioning engineer 59% covered · difficulty 44.2
- agricultural equipment design engineer 59% covered · difficulty 43.9
- chemical engineer 47% covered · difficulty 54.6
- alternative fuels engineer 47% covered · difficulty 55.8
- geological engineer 44% covered · difficulty 57.8
- instrumentation engineer 43% covered · difficulty 59.2
- thermal engineer 42% covered · difficulty 58.7
- environmental engineer 37% covered · difficulty 63.1
- environmental mining engineer 37% covered · difficulty 63.4
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Agricultural engineer is filed under Professionals, ISCO major group 2. The full index lists all ten groups.
How these figures were compiled
Overlap is how much of the target role is already part of an agricultural engineer’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.