Where a fisheries engineering technician can go next
5 destinations recorded, ranked by how much of the target role a fisheries engineering technician already meets. The closer to the top of Table 1, the less there is to learn.
Fisheries engineering technicians perform maintenance and repair machines and equipment in the fish hold and refrigeration system on board of fishing vessels.
Also known as fishery refrigeration engineer, fisheries refrigeration engineering adviser, fishing vessel freezer engineer, fisheries refrigeration engineer, fisheries electrician, fishing boat refrigeration engineer, fisheries refrigeration engineering consultant, fisheries refrigeration engineering specialist, fishing vessel refrigeration engineer, fisheries refrigeration technician, fisheries electrician and refrigeration engineer, fisheries cold storage engineer.
Technicians and associate professionals 28 skills on file 5 career moves 0 above 60% overlap Closest: fisheries assistant engineer, 56%
- 70% and above · short step
- 50 to 70% · real move
- Below 50% · substantial retraining
Table 2 · A bigger jump
Possible, but expect real retraining rather than a sideways step.
Table 3 · What the job itself asks for
A fisheries engineering technician 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.
- quality of fish products agriculture, forestry, fisheries and veterinary
- fishing vessels agriculture, forestry, fisheries and veterinary
- International Convention for the Prevention of Pollution from Ships business, administration and law
- fisheries legislation agriculture, forestry, fisheries and veterinary
- international regulations for preventing collisions at sea business, administration and law
- survive at sea in the event of ship abandonment assisting and caring
- extinguish fires assisting and caring
- ensure vessel compliance with regulations assisting and caring
- use maritime English communication, collaboration and creativity
- mechanics of vessels engineering, manufacturing and construction
Table 4 · Jobs that lead here
The reverse view: occupations whose skills already cover much of what a fisheries engineering technician does. The figure is how much of this job each one brings.
- marine chief engineer 68% covered · difficulty 35.9
- marine engineer 55% covered · difficulty 48.1
- aerodynamics engineer 50% covered · difficulty 53.3
- fisheries boatmaster 42% covered · difficulty 59.6
- alternative fuels engineer 42% covered · difficulty 60.5
- fisheries assistant engineer 40% covered · difficulty 61.2
- transport engineer 33% covered · difficulty 67.4
- fisheries observer 32% covered · difficulty 67.8
- fishing net maker 15% covered · difficulty 80.9
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Fisheries engineering technician is filed under Technicians and associate professionals, ISCO major group 3. The full index lists all ten groups.
How these figures were compiled
Overlap is how much of the target role is already part of a fisheries engineering 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.