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Where a predictive maintenance expert can go next

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

Predictive maintenance experts analyse data collected from sensors located in factories, machineries, cars, railroads and others to monitor their conditions in order to keep users informed and eventually notify the need to perform maintenance.

Also known as predictive maintenance engineer, machineries predictive maintenance expert, factories predictive maintenance expert, railroads predictive maintenance expert, cars predictive maintenance expert, expert in predictive maintenance.

Professionals 25 skills on file 5 career moves 0 above 60% overlap Closest: statistical assistant, 25%

Fig. 2 · Career map 5 nearest · ESCO v1.2.1
statistical assistant 25% covered printed circuit board designer 19% covered mining electrician 18% covered call centre analyst 16% covered computer vision engineer 15% covered predictive maintenance ex… You are here
  • 70% and above · short step
  • 50 to 70% · real move
  • Below 50% · substantial retraining
The 5 nearest destinations from predictive maintenance expert, 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 predictive maintenance expert already covers. All 5 are listed in the tables below.
Table 1

Table 1 · A bigger jump

Possible, but expect real retraining rather than a sideways step.

Table 2

Table 2 · What the job itself asks for

A predictive maintenance expert needs 20 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 data processing applications working with computers
  • model sensor communication, collaboration and creativity
  • predictive maintenance engineering, manufacturing and construction
  • ICT networking hardware information and communication technologies (icts)
  • design sensors communication, collaboration and creativity
  • advise on equipment maintenance communication, collaboration and creativity
  • gather data information skills
  • apply information security policies assisting and caring
  • test sensors constructing
  • analyse big data information skills
Table 3

Table 3 · Jobs that lead here

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

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Predictive maintenance expert 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 predictive maintenance expert’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.