Career Overlap Occupation record
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Where a marine engineering technician can go next

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

Marine engineering technicians carry out technical functions to help marine engineers with the design, development, manufacturing and testing processes, installation and maintenance of all types of boats from pleasure crafts to naval vessels, including submarines. They also conduct experiments, collect and analyse data and report their findings.

Also known as marine vessel engineering technician, boat engineering technician, submarine engineering technologist, marine engineering technologist, vessel technologist, submarine engineering technician, marine technologist, submarine technologist, vessel engineering technician, pleasure craft engineering technician, ship engineering technician, yacht engineering technician.

Technicians and associate professionals 83 skills on file 5 career moves 4 above 60% overlap Closest: marine engineering drafter, 72%

Fig. 2 · Career map 5 nearest · ESCO v1.2.1
marine engineering drafter 72% covered mechanical engineering techni… 64% covered rolling stock engineering tec… 63% covered pneumatic engineering technic… 63% covered product development engineeri… 60% covered marine engineering techni… You are here
  • 70% and above · short step
  • 50 to 70% · real move
  • Below 50% · substantial retraining
The 5 nearest destinations from marine 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 marine engineering technician 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 marine engineering technician needs 16 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
  • ensure vessel compliance with regulations assisting and caring
  • mechanics of vessels engineering, manufacturing and construction
  • material mechanics engineering, manufacturing and construction
  • multimedia systems arts and humanities
  • ICT software specifications information and communication technologies (icts)
  • CAE software information and communication technologies (icts)
  • execute analytical mathematical calculations information skills
  • physics natural sciences, mathematics and statistics
  • liaise with engineers communication, collaboration and creativity
  • read engineering drawings information skills
Table 3

Table 3 · Jobs that lead here

The reverse view: occupations whose skills already cover much of what a marine engineering technician does. The figure is how much of this job each one brings.

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Marine 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 marine 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.