Career Overlap Occupation record
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Where an engineering assistant can go next

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

Engineering assistants ensure the administration and monitoring of technical and engineering files for projects, assignments, and quality matters. They assist engineers with their experiments, participate in site visits, and administer the collection of information.

Also known as technical supporter, technical support worker, technical aide, technology assistant, project support worker, project supporter, engineering project assistant, tech assistant, project support, technological assistant, project aide, technical assistant.

Technicians and associate professionals 28 skills on file 5 career moves 0 above 60% overlap Closest: rolling stock engineering drafter, 27%

Fig. 2 · Career map 5 nearest · ESCO v1.2.1
rolling stock engineering dra… 27% covered research engineer 26% covered automotive engineering drafter 24% covered product development engineeri… 24% covered logistics engineer 24% covered engineering assistant You are here
  • 70% and above · short step
  • 50 to 70% · real move
  • Below 50% · substantial retraining
The 5 nearest destinations from engineering assistant, 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 engineering assistant 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 engineering assistant needs 9 required skills and areas of knowledge. They say the most about the work.

Required skill Area
  • file documents information skills
  • handle mail management skills
  • collaborate with engineers communication, collaboration and creativity
  • perform office routine activities management skills
  • examine engineering principles information skills
  • perform clerical duties management skills
  • assist scientific research communication, collaboration and creativity
  • liaise with engineers communication, collaboration and creativity
  • mathematics natural sciences, mathematics and statistics
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Engineering assistant is filed under Technicians and associate professionals, ISCO major group 3. 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 an engineering assistant’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.