4.8 KiB
4.8 KiB
Competences — engineering assistant
Source: ESCO v1.2.1 occupation-skill relations (http://data.europa.eu/esco/occupation/9581c837-fee7-4068-9618-1116fd93d723).
Essential
- assist scientific research (skill/competence)
- collaborate with engineers (skill/competence)
- examine engineering principles (skill/competence)
- file documents (skill/competence)
- handle mail (skill/competence)
- liaise with engineers (skill/competence)
- mathematics (knowledge)
- perform clerical duties (skill/competence)
- perform office routine activities (skill/competence)
Optional
- apply statistical analysis techniques (skill/competence)
- conduct performance tests (skill/competence)
- consult with industry professionals (skill/competence)
- create technical plans (skill/competence)
- deliver visual presentation of data (skill/competence)
- engineering principles (knowledge)
- engineering processes (knowledge)
- ensure equipment maintenance (skill/competence)
- fix meetings (skill/competence)
- gather experimental data (skill/competence)
- liaise with industrial professionals (skill/competence)
- perform data analysis (skill/competence)
- plan engineering activities (skill/competence)
- prepare scientific reports (skill/competence)
- project management (knowledge)
- proofread text (skill/competence)
- recruit employees (skill/competence)
- technical drawings (knowledge)
- write manuals (skill/competence)
Market evidence (job-ad analysis, 7 ads, as of 2026-07-11)
Share of analyzed job ads mentioning the item (threshold ≥ 20 %). Source: JSearch/Adzuna APIs.
Hard skills
- blueprint reading — 43 %
- concrete testing — 29 %
- construction planning — 29 %
- asphalt testing — 29 %
- drainage system design — 29 %
- grading design — 29 %
- hydrographic drawing — 29 %
- land surveying — 29 %
- quality control inspection — 29 %
- soil testing — 29 %
- topographic mapping — 29 %
- volume calculation — 29 %
- utility mapping — 14 %
- subsurface utility evaluation — 14 %
- surveying — 14 %
- technical drawing — 14 %
- technical inspection — 14 %
- staking — 14 %
- shop math — 14 %
- sketching — 14 %
- quantity measurement — 14 %
- report preparation — 14 %
- research and analysis — 14 %
- inventory control — 14 %
- hydrostatic testing — 14 %
- heat aging testing — 14 %
- highway construction — 14 %
- highway maintenance — 14 %
- geophysical surveying — 14 %
- low temperature testing — 14 %
- material testing — 14 %
- operations analysis — 14 %
- pipe preparation — 14 %
- problem-solving — 14 %
- product assembly — 14 %
- project management — 14 %
- data interpretation — 14 %
- data logging — 14 %
- design coordination — 14 %
- engineering design — 14 %
- equipment maintenance — 14 %
- facility surveying — 14 %
- air testing — 14 %
- bending moment testing — 14 %
- bid document preparation — 14 %
- bim modeling — 14 %
- construction design — 14 %
Methods
- continuous improvement — 14 %
- bim-driven workflows — 14 %
- digital project delivery — 14 %
- lean initiatives — 14 %
- subsurface utility engineering (SUE) — 14 %
- non-destructive testing (NDT) — 14 %
Responsibilities
- drawing preparation — 43 %
- blueprint interpretation — 29 %
- construction plan development — 29 %
- instrument operation — 29 %
- pre-construction preparation — 29 %
- material estimation — 29 %
- location surveying — 29 %
- sketching — 29 %
- road inspection — 14 %
- safety compliance — 14 %
- specification assistance — 14 %
- report writing — 14 %
- record keeping — 14 %
- work area organization — 14 %
- technical support — 14 %
- system construction assistance — 14 %
- utility location and designation — 14 %
- lab equipment maintenance — 14 %
- material inventory management — 14 %
- pipe assembly assistance — 14 %
- presentation creation — 14 %
- product testing support — 14 %
- project meeting participation — 14 %
- project planning — 14 %
- proposal preparation — 14 %
- data entry — 14 %
- invoice preparation — 14 %
- grooving pipe — 14 %
- infrastructure operation — 14 %
- bridge inspection — 14 %
- contract compliance monitoring — 14 %
- action item tracking — 14 %
- documentation — 14 %
- diagram creation — 14 %
- design assistance — 14 %
- efficiency improvement — 14 %
- field data interpretation — 14 %
- geophysical data collection — 14 %