printed circuit board designertorolling stock engineering drafter
A printed circuit board designer already meets 44% of what the rolling stock engineering drafter role asks for. The move turns on 8 required skills not yet in the profile.
44%
56.1/ 100
1 Share of the rolling stock engineering drafter role’s weighted skill requirement already met by the printed circuit board designer 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 rolling stock engineering drafter role treats 8 of its required skills as things a printed circuit board designer already does. These are the ones it depends on most.
- create technical plans
- design drawings
- execute analytical mathematical calculations
- manual draughting techniques
- mathematics
- use CADD software
What stands in the way is 8 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 13 skills that carry over, these are the ones fewest other occupations ask for. A rolling stock engineering drafter role needs them, and most people applying for one will not have them already. This is the part of a printed circuit board designer background worth leading with.
- already held use CADD software working with computers
- already held manual draughting techniques arts and humanities
- already held use manual draughting techniques communication, collaboration and creativity
- already held develop assembly instructions communication, collaboration and creativity
- already held draw blueprints communication, collaboration and creativity
- already held create a product's virtual model communication, collaboration and creativity
All 13 carried skills, including the 8 the rolling stock engineering drafter role treats as required.
Table 3 · What you would need to learn
The 21 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 engineering processes required
- required, not held engineering principles required
- required, not held technical drawings required
- optional, not held electromechanics optional
- optional, not held material mechanics optional
- optional, not held mechanics of trains optional
- required, not held ICT software specifications required
- required, not held CAE software required
- required, not held liaise with engineers required
- optional, not held adjust engineering designs optional
- optional, not held render 3D images optional
- required, not held read engineering drawings required
- optional, not held archive documentation related to work optional
- optional, not held define part requirements optional
- required, not held use computer-aided engineering systems required
- optional, not held use spreadsheets software optional
- optional, not held 3D modelling optional
- optional, not held physics optional
3 further areas in the appendix
Table 4 · Where to start
The 3 entries a rolling stock engineering drafter role is least likely to hire without. The ordering is computed from the skill data, not from what pays.
- 01 ICT software specifications knowledge · sector specific
- 02 engineering processes knowledge · sector specific
- 03 CAE software knowledge · 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 13 skills that carry over
- already held create technical plans skill
- already held design drawings knowledge
- already held execute analytical mathematical calculations skill
- already held manual draughting techniques knowledge
- already held mathematics knowledge
- already held use CADD software skill
- already held use manual draughting techniques skill
- already held use technical drawing software skill
- already held CAD software knowledge
- already held create a product's virtual model skill
- already held develop assembly instructions skill
- already held draw blueprints skill
- already held use CAD software skill
The 3 learning areas not shown above
- optional, not held control compliance of railway vehicles regulations optional
- optional, not held product data management optional
- optional, not held design wayside signalling interlockings optional
13 supplementary skills, helpful but not required
- optional, not held archive documentation related to work optional
- optional, not held control compliance of railway vehicles regulations optional
- optional, not held define part requirements optional
- optional, not held design wayside signalling interlockings optional
- optional, not held 3D modelling optional
- optional, not held adjust engineering designs optional
- optional, not held electromechanics optional
- optional, not held material mechanics optional
- optional, not held mechanics of trains optional
- optional, not held physics optional
- optional, not held product data management optional
- optional, not held render 3D images optional
- optional, not held use spreadsheets software optional
16 held skills the rolling stock engineering drafter role does not ask for
- not needed by the target role CADD software knowledge
- not needed by the target role design circuit boards skill
- not needed by the target role design prototypes skill
- not needed by the target role draft design specifications skill
- not needed by the target role electrical engineering knowledge
- not needed by the target role electrical wiring plans knowledge
- not needed by the target role electricity knowledge
- not needed by the target role electronics knowledge
- not needed by the target role ensure equipment maintenance skill
- not needed by the target role identify customer's needs skill
- not needed by the target role interpret circuit diagrams skill
- not needed by the target role manufacturing processes knowledge
- not needed by the target role monitor manufacturing quality standards skill
- not needed by the target role plan manufacturing processes skill
- not needed by the target role printed circuit boards knowledge
- not needed by the target role test printed circuit boards skill
11 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 ICT software specifications required
- required, not held engineering processes required
- required, not held CAE software required
- required, not held engineering principles required
- required, not held technical drawings required
- optional, not held 3D modelling optional
- optional, not held electromechanics optional
- optional, not held material mechanics optional
- optional, not held mechanics of trains optional
- optional, not held physics optional
- optional, not held product data management optional
Other moves recorded from printed circuit board designer
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.