Where a tooling engineer can go next
5 destinations recorded, ranked by how much of the target role a tooling engineer already meets. The closer to the top of Table 1, the less there is to learn.
Tooling engineers design new tools for manufacturing equipment. They prepare tooling quotation requests. They estimate costs and delivery time, manage tooling construction follow-up and supervise the routine maintenance of tools. They also analyse data to determine the cause of major tooling difficulties and develop recommendations and action plans for solutions.
Also known as tooling engineering expert, toolmaker/tooling engineer, manufacturing tooling engineer, tooling technology engineering adviser, tooling development engineer, tooling engineering specialist, tooling design engineer, press tooling engineer, toolmaker, tools engineer, tooling technology engineering specialist, tooling technology engineering expert.
Professionals 52 skills on file 5 career moves 5 above 60% overlap Closest: rotating equipment engineer, 73%
- 70% and above · short step
- 50 to 70% · real move
- Below 50% · substantial retraining
Table 1 · Within reach
Table 2 · What the job itself asks for
A tooling engineer needs 28 required skills and areas of knowledge. These 10 are the ones fewest other jobs share, so they say the most about the work.
- reverse engineering engineering, manufacturing and construction
- determine production feasibility information skills
- build a product's physical model handling and moving
- use computer-aided engineering systems working with computers
- estimate duration of work information skills
- create a product's virtual model communication, collaboration and creativity
- industrial engineering engineering, manufacturing and construction
- production processes engineering, manufacturing and construction
- multimedia systems arts and humanities
- quality and cycle time optimisation engineering, manufacturing and construction
Table 3 · Jobs that lead here
The reverse view: occupations whose skills already cover much of what a tooling engineer does. The figure is how much of this job each one brings.
- rotating equipment engineer 79% covered · difficulty 27.5
- container equipment design engineer 73% covered · difficulty 34.6
- agricultural equipment design engineer 72% covered · difficulty 35.6
- industrial tool design engineer 68% covered · difficulty 39.5
- packing machinery engineer 68% covered · difficulty 39.5
- fluid power engineer 65% covered · difficulty 43
- industrial engineer 51% covered · difficulty 55.9
- industrial designer 36% covered · difficulty 68.5
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Tooling engineer is filed under Professionals, ISCO major group 2. The full index lists all ten groups.
How these figures were compiled
Overlap is how much of the target role is already part of a tooling 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.