Precision instrument assembler to aircraft de-icer installer
A precision instrument assembler already meets 47% of what the aircraft de-icer installer role asks for. The move turns on 6 required skills not yet in the profile.
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1 How much of what an aircraft de-icer installer is expected to do is already part of a precision instrument assembler’s work. Directional: the figure for the reverse move differs, because moving into a speciality is not the same problem as moving out of one. 2 Every skill the aircraft de-icer installer role is recorded as needing, required and optional together. What these numbers mean.
Why this move works
An aircraft de-icer installer role treats 8 of its required skills as things a precision instrument assembler already does. You would walk in with these on day one.
- align components
- apply health and safety standards
- electromechanics
- fasten components
- quality standards
- read standard blueprints
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 9 skills that carry over, these are the ones fewest other occupations ask for. An aircraft de-icer installer role needs them, and most people applying for one will not have them already. This is the part of a precision instrument assembler background worth leading with.
- already held use power tools handling and moving
- already held align components handling and moving
- already held fasten components handling and moving
- already held electromechanics engineering, manufacturing and construction
- already held apply health and safety standards assisting and caring
- already held read standard blueprints information skills
All 9 carried skills, including the 8 the aircraft de-icer installer role treats as required.
Table 3 · What you may need to learn
The 16 missing skills fall into 7 areas of the ESCO skill hierarchy, numbered in the order worth working in. Areas carrying the most required skills come first, and inside each one the required skills sit above the optional ones. Nothing here is a verdict on you: it is a list of what this particular job asks for that your current one does not.
- still to learn aircraft mechanics required
- still to learn mechanics required
- optional, not held engineering processes optional
- optional, not held electric current optional
- optional, not held engineering principles optional
- still to learn read engineering drawings required
- still to learn use technical documentation required
- still to learn troubleshoot required
- optional, not held liaise with engineers optional
- still to learn common aviation safety regulations required
- optional, not held install bleed air systems optional
- optional, not held install deicing boot optional
- optional, not held install electrothermal de-icing systems optional
- optional, not held conduct performance tests optional
- optional, not held install pneumatic systems optional
1 further area in the appendix
Table 4 · Where to start
The 3 entries an aircraft de-icer installer role is least likely to hire without. The ordering is computed from the skill data, not from what pays.
- 01 common aviation safety regulations study this
- 02 aircraft mechanics study this
- 03 mechanics study this
Each entry opens a course search for that skill. Career Overlap earns nothing from these links.
Appendix · The rest of the record
All 9 skills that carry over
- already held align components skill
- already held apply health and safety standards skill
- already held electromechanics knowledge
- already held fasten components skill
- already held quality standards knowledge
- already held read standard blueprints skill
- already held use power tools skill
- already held wear appropriate protective gear skill
- already held keep records of work progress skill
The 1 learning area not shown above
- optional, not held pneumatics optional
10 supplementary skills, helpful but not required
- optional, not held install bleed air systems optional
- optional, not held install deicing boot optional
- optional, not held install electrothermal de-icing systems optional
- optional, not held engineering processes optional
- optional, not held conduct performance tests optional
- optional, not held electric current optional
- optional, not held engineering principles optional
- optional, not held install pneumatic systems optional
- optional, not held liaise with engineers optional
- optional, not held pneumatics optional
35 held skills the aircraft de-icer installer role does not ask for
- not needed by the target role adjust manufacturing equipment skill
- not needed by the target role assemble instrumentation equipment skill
- not needed by the target role assemble measuring equipment skill
- not needed by the target role automation technology knowledge
- not needed by the target role blueprints knowledge
- not needed by the target role calibrate precision instrument skill
- not needed by the target role carry out work-related measurements skill
- not needed by the target role electrical equipment regulations knowledge
- not needed by the target role electronic equipment standards knowledge
- not needed by the target role electronics knowledge
- not needed by the target role ensure conformity to specifications skill
- not needed by the target role inspect quality of products skill
- not needed by the target role instrument performance elements knowledge
- not needed by the target role instrumentation engineering knowledge
- not needed by the target role instrumentation equipment knowledge
- not needed by the target role maintain electronic equipment skill
- not needed by the target role measure parts of manufactured products skill
- not needed by the target role meet deadlines skill
- not needed by the target role metallurgy knowledge
- not needed by the target role monitor manufacturing quality standards skill
- not needed by the target role operate precision measuring equipment skill
- not needed by the target role operate soldering equipment skill
- not needed by the target role pack goods skill
- not needed by the target role precision engineering knowledge
- not needed by the target role precision measuring instruments knowledge
- not needed by the target role precision mechanics knowledge
- not needed by the target role read assembly drawings skill
- not needed by the target role remove defective products skill
- not needed by the target role replace defect components skill
- not needed by the target role report defective manufacturing materials skill
- not needed by the target role resolve equipment malfunctions skill
- not needed by the target role set tolerances skill
- not needed by the target role test instrumentation equipment skill
- not needed by the target role use hand tools skill
- not needed by the target role use wrenches skill
7 gaps that are knowledge rather than practice
Knowledge gaps usually close through study. Practical skill gaps usually need something you can point at.
- still to learn common aviation safety regulations required
- still to learn aircraft mechanics required
- still to learn mechanics required
- optional, not held engineering processes optional
- optional, not held electric current optional
- optional, not held engineering principles optional
- optional, not held pneumatics optional
Other moves recorded from precision instrument assembler
Common questions about this move
Can a precision instrument assembler become an aircraft de-icer installer?
Yes, and it is a moderate move. A precision instrument assembler already covers 47% of what an aircraft de-icer installer is expected to do: 9 skills carry over, 8 of which the aircraft de-icer installer role treats as required.
What skills does a precision instrument assembler need to become an aircraft de-icer installer?
6 required skills are missing, plus 10 optional ones. They fall into 7 areas of the ESCO skill hierarchy, led by engineering, manufacturing and construction. The single most important is common aviation safety regulations.
How hard is the move from precision instrument assembler to aircraft de-icer installer?
Its learning distance is 51 out of 100, which is the moderate band. That accounts for both how much is missing and how specialised those skills are.
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.