Career Overlap Occupation record
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Where a maintenance and repair engineer can go next

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

Maintenance and repair engineers focus on the optimization of equipment, procedures, machineries and infrastructure. They ensure their maximum availability at minimum costs.

Also known as manufacturing engineer, production engineer, manufacturing systems engineer, mechanical engineer, equipment engineer, solar operation and maintenance engineer, battery maintenance engineer, maintenance engineer, battery repair engineer, electric vehicles battery maintenance technician, plant engineer, BEES battery maintenance technician.

Professionals 102 skills on file 5 career moves 1 above 60% overlap Closest: industrial machinery mechanic, 63%

Fig. 2 · Career map 5 nearest · ESCO v1.2.1
industrial machinery mechanic 63% covered pneumatic engineering technic… 56% covered fluid power technician 56% covered forge equipment technician 55% covered pneumatic systems technician 55% covered maintenance and repair en… You are here
  • 70% and above · short step
  • 50 to 70% · real move
  • Below 50% · substantial retraining
The 5 nearest destinations from maintenance and repair 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 a maintenance and repair engineer already covers. All 5 are listed in the tables below.
Table 1

Table 1 · Within reach

Table 2

Table 2 · What the job itself asks for

A maintenance and repair engineer needs 21 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
  • maintain machinery working with machinery and specialised equipment
  • inspect machinery constructing
  • inspect industrial equipment constructing
  • advise on efficiency improvements communication, collaboration and creativity
  • maintenance operations engineering, manufacturing and construction
  • conduct quality control analysis information skills
  • conduct routine machinery checks working with machinery and specialised equipment
  • write technical reports communication, collaboration and creativity
  • quality assurance procedures business, administration and law
  • work safely with machines working with machinery and specialised equipment
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Maintenance and repair 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 a maintenance and repair 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.