Career Overlap Occupation record
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Where a military engineer can go next

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

Military engineers perform technical and scientific functions in the military, such as the development of concepts for military technical equipment, support of the manufacturing of military equipment, and technical research, maintenance, and quality assurance.

Also known as combat technician, defence engineering consultant, defence manager, defence technology engineering specialist, ballistics engineer, defence engineering specialist, defence engineering adviser, defence technology engineering consultant, combat engineer, weaponary developer, defence technology engineer, defence technology engineering expert.

Armed forces occupations 120 skills on file 5 career moves 5 above 60% overlap Closest: armed forces officer, 80%

Fig. 2 · Career map 5 nearest · ESCO v1.2.1
armed forces officer 80% covered special forces officer 79% covered army corporal 78% covered army captain 78% covered sergeant 78% covered military engineer You are here
  • 70% and above · short step
  • 50 to 70% · real move
  • Below 50% · substantial retraining
The 5 nearest destinations from military 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 military 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 military engineer needs 36 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
  • perform ground-handling maintenance procedures constructing
  • patents business, administration and law
  • terminology arts and humanities
  • logistics business, administration and law
  • supervise the maintenance of military equipment management skills
  • design engineering components communication, collaboration and creativity
  • project commissioning business, administration and law
  • advise superiors on military operations communication, collaboration and creativity
  • algorithms information and communication technologies (icts)
  • monitor military equipment use information skills
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Military engineer is filed under Armed forces occupations, ISCO major group 0. 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 military 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.