aerospace engineertoautomotive engineer
A aerospace engineer already meets 64% of what the automotive engineer role asks for. The move turns on 6 required skills not yet in the profile.
64%
45.4/ 100
1 Share of the automotive engineer role’s weighted skill requirement already met by the aerospace engineer profile. Required skills count in full, supplementary skills at 0.35. Directional: the figure for the reverse move differs. 2 Combines what is missing with how specialised it is, so a gap of general skills scores easier than the same number of narrow ones.
Why this move works
A automotive engineer role treats 15 of its required skills as things a aerospace engineer already does. These are the ones it depends on most.
- adjust engineering designs
- analyse production processes for improvement
- approve engineering design
- assess financial viability
- control production
- engineering principles
What stands in the way is 6 required skills the profile does not yet cover. Table 3 groups them; Table 4 says which to take first.
Table 2 · What you already bring
Of the 32 skills that carry over, these are the ones fewest other occupations ask for. A automotive engineer role needs them, and most people applying for one will not have them already. This is the part of a aerospace engineer background worth leading with.
- already held synthetic natural environment natural sciences, mathematics and statistics
- already held apply advanced manufacturing management skills
- already held manage product testing management skills
- already held guidance, navigation and control engineering, manufacturing and construction
- already held build a product's physical model handling and moving
- already held defense system services
All 32 carried skills, including the 15 the automotive engineer role treats as required.
Table 3 · What you would need to learn
The 23 missing skills fall into 9 areas of the ESCO skill hierarchy, numbered below in the order worth working in: the areas carrying the most required skills come first, and inside each one the required skills sit above the supplementary ones.
- required, not held green automotive technologies required
- required, not held hybrid vehicle architecture required
- optional, not held electrical testing methods optional
- optional, not held electromechanics optional
- optional, not held electronics optional
- optional, not held mechanics of motor vehicles optional
- optional, not held model based system engineering optional
- optional, not held precision mechanics optional
- optional, not held reverse engineering optional
- required, not held anticipate change in car technology required
- required, not held perform market research required
- optional, not held compare alternative vehicles optional
- required, not held automotive engineering required
- optional, not held design electromechanical systems optional
- optional, not held prepare production prototypes optional
- required, not held information structure required
- optional, not held advanced driver assistant systems optional
- optional, not held vehicle-to-everything technologies optional
- optional, not held European vehicle type-approval legislation optional
- optional, not held use automotive diagnostic equipment optional
3 further areas in the appendix
Table 4 · Where to start
The 3 entries a automotive engineer role is least likely to hire without. The ordering is computed from the skill data, not from what pays.
- 01 anticipate change in car technology skill · occupation specific
- 02 green automotive technologies knowledge · sector specific
- 03 hybrid vehicle architecture knowledge · sector specific
Each entry opens a course search for that skill. Career Overlap earns nothing from these links.
Appendix · The rest of the record
All 32 skills that carry over
- already held adjust engineering designs skill
- already held analyse production processes for improvement skill
- already held approve engineering design skill
- already held assess financial viability skill
- already held control production skill
- already held engineering principles knowledge
- already held engineering processes knowledge
- already held execute feasibility study skill
- already held industrial engineering knowledge
- already held manufacturing processes knowledge
- already held perform scientific research skill
- already held production processes knowledge
- already held quality standards knowledge
- already held technical drawings knowledge
- already held use technical drawing software skill
- already held CAE software knowledge
- already held apply advanced manufacturing skill
- already held build a product's physical model skill
- already held conduct performance tests skill
- already held create a product's virtual model skill
- already held defense system knowledge
- already held design principles knowledge
- already held design prototypes skill
- already held develop test procedures skill
- already held draft design specifications skill
- already held guidance, navigation and control knowledge
- already held manage product testing skill
- already held mechanical engineering knowledge
- already held record test data skill
- already held synthetic natural environment knowledge
- already held use CAD software skill
- already held use CAM software skill
The 3 learning areas not shown above
- optional, not held vehicle type-approval optional
- optional, not held apply reverse engineering optional
- optional, not held disassemble equipment optional
17 supplementary skills, helpful but not required
- optional, not held European vehicle type-approval legislation optional
- optional, not held advanced driver assistant systems optional
- optional, not held apply reverse engineering optional
- optional, not held compare alternative vehicles optional
- optional, not held use automotive diagnostic equipment optional
- optional, not held vehicle type-approval optional
- optional, not held vehicle-to-everything technologies optional
- optional, not held design electromechanical systems optional
- optional, not held disassemble equipment optional
- optional, not held electrical testing methods optional
- optional, not held electromechanics optional
- optional, not held electronics optional
- optional, not held mechanics of motor vehicles optional
- optional, not held model based system engineering optional
- optional, not held precision mechanics optional
- optional, not held prepare production prototypes optional
- optional, not held reverse engineering optional
15 held skills the automotive engineer role does not ask for
- not needed by the target role aerodynamics knowledge
- not needed by the target role aerospace engineering knowledge
- not needed by the target role aircraft mechanics knowledge
- not needed by the target role computer simulation knowledge
- not needed by the target role ensure aircraft compliance with regulation skill
- not needed by the target role fluid mechanics knowledge
- not needed by the target role material mechanics knowledge
- not needed by the target role mathematical modelling knowledge
- not needed by the target role oversee assembly operations skill
- not needed by the target role plan test flights skill
- not needed by the target role safety engineering knowledge
- not needed by the target role state estimation knowledge
- not needed by the target role stealth technology knowledge
- not needed by the target role troubleshoot skill
- not needed by the target role unmanned air systems knowledge
14 gaps that are knowledge rather than practice
Knowledge gaps usually close through study. Practical skill gaps usually need something you can point at.
- required, not held green automotive technologies required
- required, not held hybrid vehicle architecture required
- required, not held information structure required
- optional, not held European vehicle type-approval legislation optional
- optional, not held advanced driver assistant systems optional
- optional, not held vehicle type-approval optional
- optional, not held vehicle-to-everything technologies optional
- optional, not held electrical testing methods optional
- optional, not held electromechanics optional
- optional, not held electronics optional
- optional, not held mechanics of motor vehicles optional
- optional, not held model based system engineering optional
- optional, not held precision mechanics optional
- optional, not held reverse engineering optional
How this record was compiled
Both occupations are taken from ESCO, which lists the skills and knowledge each occupation is expected to have and marks every one required or optional. Nothing here is a prediction about hiring, and nothing here knows that a particular employer wants a particular certificate. Treat Table 3 as a starting point for your own research rather than a syllabus. The full method states what these figures can and cannot tell you.