Career Overlap Transition record Edition 1 · ESCO v1.2.1
Table 1Transition record

road operations managertotransport engineer

A road operations manager already meets 15% of what the transport engineer role asks for. The move turns on 17 required skills not yet in the profile.

From road operations manager
15%
Overlap1
To transport engineer
5 Skills carried over
17 Required, not held
80.1 Difficulty2
Career overlap Distant match

15%

Learning distance A rebuild

80.1/ 100

1 Share of the transport engineer role’s weighted skill requirement already met by the road operations manager 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

Why this move works

A transport engineer role treats 3 of its required skills as things a road operations manager already does. These are the ones it depends on most.

  • manage budgets
  • promote the use of sustainable transport
  • road transport legislation

What stands in the way is 17 required skills the profile does not yet cover. Table 3 groups them; Table 4 says which to take first.

Table 2

Table 2 · What you already bring

Of the 5 skills that carry over, these are the ones fewest other occupations ask for. A transport engineer role needs them, and most people applying for one will not have them already. This is the part of a road operations manager background worth leading with.

Skill the target role also needs Area
  • already held green logistics business, administration and law
  • already held develop efficiency plans for logistics operations management skills
  • already held promote the use of sustainable transport communication, collaboration and creativity
  • already held road transport legislation business, administration and law
  • already held manage budgets management skills

All 5 carried skills, including the 3 the transport engineer role treats as required.

Table 3

Table 3 · What you would need to learn

The 28 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.

Skill to acquire Tier
01 engineering, manufacturing and construction 7 required, 3 supplementary
  • required, not held engineering processes required
  • required, not held civil engineering required
  • required, not held construction methods required
  • required, not held engineering principles required
  • required, not held technical drawings required
  • required, not held transportation engineering required
  • required, not held urban planning required
  • optional, not held environmental engineering optional
  • optional, not held safety engineering optional
  • optional, not held traffic engineering optional
02 communication, collaboration and creativity 4 required, 1 supplementary
  • required, not held apply transportation management concepts required
  • required, not held adjust engineering designs required
  • required, not held approve engineering design required
  • required, not held design transportation systems required
  • optional, not held promote innovative infrastructure design optional
03 information skills 1 required, 2 supplementary
  • required, not held execute analytical mathematical calculations required
  • optional, not held analyse transport studies optional
  • optional, not held execute feasibility study optional
04 working with computers 1 required, 2 supplementary
  • required, not held use technical drawing software required
  • optional, not held simulate transport problems optional
  • optional, not held use CAD software optional
05 services 1 required, 1 supplementary
  • required, not held transportation methods required
  • optional, not held health and safety regulations optional
06 arts and humanities 1 required
  • required, not held design principles required

3 further areas in the appendix

Table 4

Table 4 · Where to start

The 3 entries a transport engineer role is least likely to hire without. The ordering is computed from the skill data, not from what pays.

Each entry opens a course search for that skill. Career Overlap earns nothing from these links.

Appendix

Appendix · The rest of the record

All 5 skills that carry over
Skill Type
  • already held manage budgets skill
  • already held promote the use of sustainable transport skill
  • already held road transport legislation knowledge
  • already held develop efficiency plans for logistics operations skill
  • already held green logistics knowledge
The 3 learning areas not shown above
Skill to acquire Tier
07 assisting and caring 1 required
  • required, not held follow health and safety procedures in construction required
08 natural sciences, mathematics and statistics 1 required
  • required, not held mathematics required
09 business, administration and law 2 supplementary
  • optional, not held multimodal transport logistics optional
  • optional, not held urban planning law optional
11 supplementary skills, helpful but not required
Skill to acquire Tier
  • optional, not held promote innovative infrastructure design optional
  • optional, not held analyse transport studies optional
  • optional, not held environmental engineering optional
  • optional, not held execute feasibility study optional
  • optional, not held health and safety regulations optional
  • optional, not held multimodal transport logistics optional
  • optional, not held safety engineering optional
  • optional, not held simulate transport problems optional
  • optional, not held traffic engineering optional
  • optional, not held urban planning law optional
  • optional, not held use CAD software optional
24 held skills the transport engineer role does not ask for
Skill Type
  • not needed by the target role analyse reports provided by passengers skill
  • not needed by the target role analyse road traffic patterns skill
  • not needed by the target role analyse transportation costs skill
  • not needed by the target role apply road transport environmental measures skill
  • not needed by the target role assign vehicles in accordance with requirements skill
  • not needed by the target role city road network knowledge
  • not needed by the target role coordinate road haulage operations skill
  • not needed by the target role coordinate transport fleet skill
  • not needed by the target role coordinate transport staff training skill
  • not needed by the target role distribute technical information on operation of vehicles skill
  • not needed by the target role focus on service skill
  • not needed by the target role implement efficiency plans for logistics operations skill
  • not needed by the target role liaise with transportation companies skill
  • not needed by the target role make independent operating decisions skill
  • not needed by the target role manage computer-based transport operation control systems skill
  • not needed by the target role manage the customer experience skill
  • not needed by the target role national road network knowledge
  • not needed by the target role passenger transport regulations knowledge
  • not needed by the target role plan road fleet maintenance skill
  • not needed by the target role plan vehicle replacement skill
  • not needed by the target role project management knowledge
  • not needed by the target role road traffic laws knowledge
  • not needed by the target role set transport targets skill
  • not needed by the target role use different communication channels skill
16 gaps that are knowledge rather than practice

Knowledge gaps usually close through study. Practical skill gaps usually need something you can point at.

Skill to acquire Tier
  • required, not held engineering processes required
  • required, not held transportation methods required
  • required, not held civil engineering required
  • required, not held construction methods required
  • required, not held design principles required
  • required, not held engineering principles required
  • required, not held mathematics required
  • required, not held technical drawings required
  • required, not held transportation engineering required
  • required, not held urban planning required
  • optional, not held environmental engineering optional
  • optional, not held health and safety regulations optional
  • optional, not held multimodal transport logistics optional
  • optional, not held safety engineering optional
  • optional, not held traffic engineering optional
  • optional, not held urban planning law optional
Index

Other moves recorded from road operations manager

Full index of moves from road operations manager

Note

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.