Career Overlap Occupation record
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Where a civil engineering worker can go next

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

Civil engineering workers perform tasks concerning the cleaning and preparation of construction sites for civil engineering projects. This includes the work on building and maintenance of roads, railways and dams.

Also known as construction worker, civil engineering company worker, civils ground worker, site worker, civils groundworker, groundworker, civils worker, civils operative, civil engineering contract worker, ground worker, building worker.

Elementary occupations 57 skills on file 5 career moves 1 above 60% overlap Closest: road maintenance worker, 68%

Fig. 2 · Career map 5 nearest · ESCO v1.2.1
road maintenance worker 68% covered rail layer 59% covered road sign installer 55% covered road construction worker 54% covered road maintenance technician 53% covered civil engineering worker You are here
  • 70% and above · short step
  • 50 to 70% · real move
  • Below 50% · substantial retraining
The 5 nearest destinations from civil engineering worker, 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 a civil engineering worker 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

A civil engineering worker needs 28 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
  • compaction techniques engineering, manufacturing and construction
  • prepare subgrade for road pavement constructing
  • dredging consoles information and communication technologies (icts)
  • inspect railways visually information skills
  • lay base courses constructing
  • operate drones in civil engineering working with machinery and specialised equipment
  • position guardrails and toeboards handling and moving
  • provide pipe bedding constructing
  • work trains engineering, manufacturing and construction
  • inspect drainage channels information skills
Table 3

Table 3 · Jobs that lead here

The reverse view: occupations whose skills already cover much of what a civil engineering worker does. The figure is how much of this job each one brings.

Index

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Civil engineering worker is filed under Elementary occupations, ISCO major group 9. 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 a civil engineering worker’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.