Career Overlap Occupation record
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Where a pipeline engineer can go next

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

Pipeline engineers design and develop the engineering aspects for the construction of pipeline infrastructures in various kinds of sites (e.g. inland, maritime). They envision and create the specifications for pumping systems and for the general transport of goods through pipelines.

Also known as subsea pipeline engineer, pipeline field engineer, main line station engineer, pipeline engineering technician, pipeline field technician, offshore pipeline engineer, main line station technician, pipeline integrity engineer.

Professionals 35 skills on file 5 career moves 0 above 60% overlap Closest: pipeline maintenance worker, 48%

Fig. 2 · Career map 5 nearest · ESCO v1.2.1
pipeline maintenance worker 48% covered pipeline route manager 40% covered drain technician 37% covered pipe welder 32% covered pipeline environmental projec… 32% covered pipeline engineer You are here
  • 70% and above · short step
  • 50 to 70% · real move
  • Below 50% · substantial retraining
The 5 nearest destinations from pipeline 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 pipeline 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

A pipeline engineer needs 19 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
  • design pipelines with different coating solutions communication, collaboration and creativity
  • isometric perspective natural sciences, mathematics and statistics
  • oversee wetlands in project development information skills
  • metal bending techniques engineering, manufacturing and construction
  • integrate measures in architectural designs communication, collaboration and creativity
  • perform water analysis information skills
  • consider the impact of material characteristics on pipeline flows constructing
  • create designs for pipeline engineering communication, collaboration and creativity
  • perform pipeline routing studies information skills
  • pipeline coating properties engineering, manufacturing and construction
Table 4

Table 4 · Jobs that lead here

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

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Pipeline 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 pipeline 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.