Where a fluid power engineer can go next
5 destinations recorded, ranked by how much of the target role a fluid power engineer already meets. The closer to the top of Table 1, the less there is to learn.
Fluid power engineers supervise the assembly, installation, maintenance, and testing of fluid power equipment in accordance with specified manufacturing processes. They create designs with schematics and assembly models, make drawings and bills of materials for components, and analyse equipment.
Also known as fluid power assembler, fluid power engineering operator, fluid power maintenance supervisor, fluid power assembly engineer, fluid power engineering specialist, fluid power engineering adviser, fluid power technology engineer, fluid power engineering inspector, fluid power engineer installer, fluid power technology engineering expert, fluid power engineering consultant, fluid power tester.
Professionals 40 skills on file 5 career moves 5 above 60% overlap Closest: rotating equipment engineer, 80%
- 70% and above · short step
- 50 to 70% · real move
- Below 50% · substantial retraining
Table 1 · Within reach
Table 2 · What the job itself asks for
A fluid power engineer needs 20 required skills and areas of knowledge. These 10 are the ones fewest other jobs share, so they say the most about the work.
- hydraulic fluid engineering, manufacturing and construction
- use computer-aided engineering systems working with computers
- fluid mechanics engineering, manufacturing and construction
- principles of mechanical engineering engineering, manufacturing and construction
- execute feasibility study information skills
- hydraulics engineering, manufacturing and construction
- approve engineering design communication, collaboration and creativity
- mechanical engineering engineering, manufacturing and construction
- CAD software information and communication technologies (icts)
- read engineering drawings information skills
Table 3 · Jobs that lead here
The reverse view: occupations whose skills already cover much of what a fluid power engineer does. The figure is how much of this job each one brings.
- agricultural equipment design engineer 81% covered · difficulty 21.4
- packing machinery engineer 79% covered · difficulty 24.2
- industrial tool design engineer 75% covered · difficulty 28.2
- tooling engineer 70% covered · difficulty 33.5
- mechanical engineer 66% covered · difficulty 36.7
- mechanical engineering technician 58% covered · difficulty 44.2
- industrial engineer 52% covered · difficulty 49.8
- marine engineer 47% covered · difficulty 54.2
- agricultural engineer 46% covered · difficulty 55.5
- thermal engineer 46% covered · difficulty 55.5
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Fluid power engineer is filed under Professionals, ISCO major group 2. 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 fluid power 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.