aircraft de-icer installertoaircraft assembler
A aircraft de-icer installer already meets 57% of what the aircraft assembler role asks for. The move turns on 4 required skills not yet in the profile.
57%
46.4/ 100
1 Share of the aircraft assembler role’s weighted skill requirement already met by the aircraft de-icer installer 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 aircraft assembler role treats 14 of its required skills as things a aircraft de-icer installer already does. These are the ones it depends on most.
- aircraft mechanics
- align components
- apply health and safety standards
- common aviation safety regulations
- electromechanics
- fasten components
What stands in the way is 4 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 19 skills that carry over, these are the ones fewest other occupations ask for. A aircraft assembler role needs them, and most people applying for one will not have them already. This is the part of a aircraft de-icer installer background worth leading with.
- already held aircraft mechanics engineering, manufacturing and construction
- already held common aviation safety regulations business, administration and law
- already held use power tools handling and moving
- already held align components handling and moving
- already held fasten components handling and moving
- already held conduct performance tests constructing
All 19 carried skills, including the 14 the aircraft assembler role treats as required.
Table 3 · What you would need to learn
The 26 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 assemble metal parts required
- required, not held apply preliminary treatment to workpieces required
- optional, not held cut metal products optional
- optional, not held operate handheld riveting equipment optional
- required, not held operate drill press required
- optional, not held perform aircraft maintenance optional
- optional, not held operate lifting equipment optional
- optional, not held tend riveting machine optional
- optional, not held use testing equipment optional
- required, not held ensure equipment availability required
- optional, not held program a CNC controller optional
- optional, not held set up automotive robot optional
- optional, not held tend CNC drilling machine optional
- optional, not held tend CNC grinding machine optional
- optional, not held tend CNC laser cutting machine optional
- optional, not held tend CNC metal punch press optional
- optional, not held tend CNC milling machine optional
- optional, not held tend computer numerical control lathe machine optional
- optional, not held use CAM software optional
- optional, not held archive documentation related to work optional
- optional, not held inspect quality of products optional
- optional, not held record test data optional
- optional, not held follow safety procedures when working at heights optional
3 further areas in the appendix
Table 4 · Where to start
The 3 entries a aircraft assembler role is least likely to hire without. The ordering is computed from the skill data, not from what pays.
- 01 assemble metal parts skill · sector specific
- 02 apply preliminary treatment to workpieces skill · cross sector
- 03 ensure equipment availability skill · cross sector
Each entry opens a course search for that skill. Career Overlap earns nothing from these links.
Appendix · The rest of the record
All 19 skills that carry over
- already held aircraft mechanics knowledge
- already held align components skill
- already held apply health and safety standards skill
- already held common aviation safety regulations knowledge
- already held electromechanics knowledge
- already held fasten components skill
- already held mechanics knowledge
- already held quality standards knowledge
- already held read engineering drawings skill
- already held read standard blueprints skill
- already held troubleshoot skill
- already held use power tools skill
- already held use technical documentation skill
- already held wear appropriate protective gear skill
- already held conduct performance tests skill
- already held engineering principles knowledge
- already held engineering processes knowledge
- already held keep records of work progress skill
- already held liaise with engineers skill
The 3 learning areas not shown above
- optional, not held operate welding equipment optional
- optional, not held rivet types optional
- optional, not held defense system optional
22 supplementary skills, helpful but not required
- optional, not held archive documentation related to work optional
- optional, not held defense system optional
- optional, not held perform aircraft maintenance optional
- optional, not held cut metal products optional
- optional, not held follow safety procedures when working at heights optional
- optional, not held inspect quality of products optional
- optional, not held operate handheld riveting equipment optional
- optional, not held operate lifting equipment optional
- optional, not held operate welding equipment optional
- optional, not held program a CNC controller optional
- optional, not held record test data optional
- optional, not held rivet types optional
- optional, not held set up automotive robot optional
- optional, not held tend CNC drilling machine optional
- optional, not held tend CNC grinding machine optional
- optional, not held tend CNC laser cutting machine optional
- optional, not held tend CNC metal punch press optional
- optional, not held tend CNC milling machine optional
- optional, not held tend computer numerical control lathe machine optional
- optional, not held tend riveting machine optional
- optional, not held use CAM software optional
- optional, not held use testing equipment optional
6 held skills the aircraft assembler role does not ask for
- not needed by the target role electric current knowledge
- not needed by the target role install bleed air systems skill
- not needed by the target role install deicing boot skill
- not needed by the target role install electrothermal de-icing systems skill
- not needed by the target role install pneumatic systems skill
- not needed by the target role pneumatics knowledge
2 gaps that are knowledge rather than practice
Knowledge gaps usually close through study. Practical skill gaps usually need something you can point at.
- optional, not held defense system optional
- optional, not held rivet types optional
Other moves recorded from aircraft de-icer installer
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.