Career Overlap Occupation record
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Where an avionics technician can go next

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

Avionics technicians install, test, inspect and adjust electrical and electronic equipment, such as navigation, communication and flight control systems in aircrafts and spacecrafts. They carry out maintenance and repair work. They perform functional tests, diagnose problems and take corrective action.

Also known as avionics test technician, avionics inspection technician, avionics maintenance technician, avionics installation technician, avionics systems technician, aircraft instrument technician, avionics mechanic, aircraft instrument mechanic, aircraft electronics mechanic, avionics repair technician, aircraft electromechanic technician, avionics diagnostic technician.

Craft and related trades workers 35 skills on file 5 career moves 0 above 60% overlap Closest: rolling stock electrician, 56%

Fig. 2 · Career map 5 nearest · ESCO v1.2.1
rolling stock electrician 56% covered pneumatic engineering technic… 51% covered aircraft maintenance technici… 46% covered avionics inspector 45% covered aircraft de-icer installer 43% covered avionics technician You are here
  • 70% and above · short step
  • 50 to 70% · real move
  • Below 50% · substantial retraining
The 5 nearest destinations from avionics 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 avionics technician already covers. All 5 are listed in the tables below.
Table 1

Table 1 · Within reach

Table 2

Table 2 · A bigger jump

Possible, but expect real retraining rather than a sideways step.

Table 3

Table 3 · What the job itself asks for

An avionics technician needs 19 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
  • electrical systems used in transportation engineering, manufacturing and construction
  • assemble electrical components handling and moving
  • aircraft flight control systems services
  • solder electronics constructing
  • electronics principles engineering, manufacturing and construction
  • test electronic units constructing
  • install electrical and electronic equipment working with machinery and specialised equipment
  • apply soldering techniques constructing
  • common aviation safety regulations business, administration and law
  • electrical wiring plans engineering, manufacturing and construction
Table 4

Table 4 · Jobs that lead here

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

Index

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Avionics technician is filed under Craft and related trades workers, ISCO major group 7. The full index lists all ten groups.

Note

How these figures were compiled

Overlap is how much of the target role is already part of an avionics 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.