Career Overlap Occupation record
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Where an instrumentation engineer can go next

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

Instrumentation engineers envision and design equipment used in manufacturing processes for controlling and monitoring various engineering processes remotely. They design equipment for the monitoring of production sites such as manufacturing systems, machinery uses and production processes.

Also known as instrumentation engineering specialist, supervisory control and data acquisition engineer, autonomy engineer, C&I engineer, mine instrumentation engineer, instrument engineer, instrumentation engineering adviser, instrumentation engineering expert, instrumentation engineer technology engineering specialist, instrumentation engineer technology engineering consultant, instrumentation engineer technology engineer, instrumentation engineering consultant.

Professionals 67 skills on file 5 career moves 0 above 60% overlap Closest: electronics engineer, 52%

Fig. 2 · Career map 5 nearest · ESCO v1.2.1
electronics engineer 52% covered equipment engineer 48% covered rolling stock engineer 45% covered agricultural engineer 43% covered container equipment design en… 42% covered instrumentation engineer You are here
  • 70% and above · short step
  • 50 to 70% · real move
  • Below 50% · substantial retraining
The 5 nearest destinations from instrumentation engineer, 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 instrumentation engineer 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

An instrumentation engineer needs 25 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
  • develop instrumentation systems communication, collaboration and creativity
  • design control systems communication, collaboration and creativity
  • control systems engineering, manufacturing and construction
  • instrumentation equipment engineering, manufacturing and construction
  • instrumentation engineering engineering, manufacturing and construction
  • abide by regulations on banned materials assisting and caring
  • environmental threats natural sciences, mathematics and statistics
  • use remote control equipment working with computers
  • electricity principles engineering, manufacturing and construction
  • use specific data analysis software working with computers
Table 4

Table 4 · Jobs that lead here

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

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Instrumentation engineer is filed under Professionals, ISCO major group 2. 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 instrumentation 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.