Career Overlap Occupation record
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Where an engine minder can go next

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

Engine minders perform work related to the deck department of an inland water transport vessel. They use their experience on-board a motorised inland navigation vessel as an ordinary crewmember and have a basic knowledge of engines.

Also known as on board engine minder, canal narrowboat engine minder, narrow boat crew member, narrowboat crew member, narrow boat engine minder, vessel engine operator, canal boat crew member, canal boat engine minder, canal narrowboat crew member, barge crew member, barge engine minder, narrowboat engine minder.

Plant and machine operators and assemblers 33 skills on file 5 career moves 0 above 60% overlap Closest: marine mechanic, 49%

Fig. 2 · Career map 5 nearest · ESCO v1.2.1
marine mechanic 49% covered ship duty engineer 41% covered ship assistant engineer 35% covered decksman 24% covered matrose 21% covered engine minder You are here
  • 70% and above · short step
  • 50 to 70% · real move
  • Below 50% · substantial retraining
The 5 nearest destinations from engine minder, 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 engine minder 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

An engine minder needs 26 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
  • monitor pumping system operations information skills
  • prepare equipment for navigation operations working with machinery and specialised equipment
  • prepare main engines for navigation operations working with machinery and specialised equipment
  • manage vessel control systems working with machinery and specialised equipment
  • prevent damage to electrical devices on board constructing
  • execute safety assurance exercises assisting and caring
  • inland waterway ship building engineering, manufacturing and construction
  • apply vessel engine regulations assisting and caring
  • clean parts of vessels handling and moving
  • detect malfunctions in engines constructing
Table 3

Table 3 · Jobs that lead here

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

Index

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Engine minder is filed under Plant and machine operators and assemblers, ISCO major group 8. 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 engine minder’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.