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Where a drilling engineer can go next

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

Drilling engineers develop and supervise the drilling of gas and oil wells. They assist in the designing, testing and creation of wells and are employed on land or offshore platforms. Drilling engineers work with other mining professionals and oversee the drilling progress and safety of the site.

Also known as oil rig driller, rig driller, earth driller, gas rig driller, mineral driller, drilling technician, wells engineer, drilling expert, drilling and completion engineer, offshore drilling engineer, gasfield driller, oilfield driller.

Professionals 24 skills on file 5 career moves 0 above 60% overlap Closest: mineral processing engineer, 35%

Fig. 2 · Career map 5 nearest · ESCO v1.2.1

70% and above · short step
50 to 70% · real move
Below 50% · substantial retraining

The 5 nearest destinations from drilling engineer, 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 drilling engineer already covers. All 5 are listed in the tables below.

Table 1

Table 1 · A bigger jump

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

Table 2

Table 2 · What the job itself asks for

A drilling engineer needs 22 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

analyse drill engineering information skills
design drill programmes management skills
design well paths communication, collaboration and creativity
design well-head equipment communication, collaboration and creativity
liaise with specialist contractors for well operations communication, collaboration and creativity
manage drilling contracts communication, collaboration and creativity
manage drilling team management skills
manage service contracts in the drilling industry communication, collaboration and creativity
monitor well costs information skills
monitor well operations information skills

Table 3

Table 3 · Jobs that lead here

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

liquid fuel engineer 22% covered · difficulty 80.4

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Drilling engineer is filed under Professionals, ISCO major group 2. 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 drilling 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.