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Where a heating, ventilation, air conditioning and refrigeration engineering technician can go next

5 destinations recorded, ranked by how much of the target role a heating, ventilation, air conditioning and refrigeration engineering technician already meets. The closer to the top of Table 1, the less there is to learn.

Heating, ventilation, air conditioning and refrigeration engineering technicians aid in the design of devices which provide heating, ventilation, air conditioning and possibly refrigeration in buildings. They ensure the equipment complies with environmental standards. They handle hazardous materials used in the systems, and ensure safety precautions are in place.

Also known as air conditioning technician, HVAC project technician, HVAC systems technician, HVACR technician.

Technicians and associate professionals 40 skills on file 5 career moves 0 above 60% overlap Closest: refrigeration air condition and heat pump technician, 48%

Fig. 2 · Career map 5 nearest · ESCO v1.2.1
refrigeration air condition a… 48% covered steam plant operator 48% covered heating and ventilation servi… 40% covered steam turbine operator 36% covered steam engineer 31% covered heating, ventilation, air… You are here
  • 70% and above · short step
  • 50 to 70% · real move
  • Below 50% · substantial retraining
The 5 nearest destinations from heating, ventilation, air conditioning and refrigeration engineering technician, 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 heating, ventilation, air conditioning and refrigeration engineering technician already covers. All 5 are listed in the tables below.
Table 1

Table 1 · Within reach

Table 2

Table 2 · A bigger jump

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

Table 3

Table 3 · What the job itself asks for

A heating, ventilation, air conditioning and refrigeration engineering technician needs 18 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
  • handle refrigerant transfer pumps working with machinery and specialised equipment
  • refrigerants engineering, manufacturing and construction
  • operate climate control working with computers
  • domestic cooling systems engineering, manufacturing and construction
  • electric heating systems engineering, manufacturing and construction
  • types of heat pumps engineering, manufacturing and construction
  • heating, ventilation, air conditioning and refrigeration parts engineering, manufacturing and construction
  • monitor utility equipment constructing
  • thermodynamics natural sciences, mathematics and statistics
  • maintain records of maintenance interventions information skills
Table 4

Table 4 · Jobs that lead here

The reverse view: occupations whose skills already cover much of what a heating, ventilation, air conditioning and refrigeration engineering technician does. The figure is how much of this job each one brings.

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Heating, ventilation, air conditioning and refrigeration engineering technician 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 a heating, ventilation, air conditioning and refrigeration 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.