Occupation Atlasdesign engineer
ESCO · http://data.europa.eu/esco/occupation/6fc8f605-98b9-4218-b5e2-91c4c9c55c4d
design engineer
Design engineers develop new conceptual and detailed designs. They create the look for these concepts or products and the systems used to make them. Design engineers work with engineers and marketers to enhance the functioning and efficiency of existing devices.
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Job Zone
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- 3
- 4
- 5
Zone 4: Considerable Preparation Needed
Considerable preparation. Usually a bachelor's degree plus several years of work-related experience, knowledge, or training.
Job Zone is O*NET's rating of how much education, experience and training an occupation typically needs — a property of the work, not of anyone doing it.
Occupational interest profile
CIRConventional · Investigative · Realistic — the three strongest interests, in order
- C Conventional5.35
- I Investigative4.99
- R Realistic4.96
- E Enterprising3.29
- A Artistic1.58
- S Social1.37
RIASEC (Holland) interests on O*NET's 0–7 scale: what the work draws on, not what any individual prefers. Hover a row for what each dimension means.
Job Zone and interest data are borrowed from Industrial Engineers (17-2112.00): in the official ESCO–O*NET crosswalk, its close O*NET match, and the best-ranked match that has them. ESCO doesn't publish them directly.
Typically associated skills
Essential (17)
ESCO's essential and optional tags describe how its taxonomy relates a skill to this occupation. They are not the essential functions of a job under the ADA, which an employer determines for its own role.
- CAD software
- assess financial viability
- circular economy
- define technical requirements
- design principles
- engineering principles
- engineering processes
- execute analytical mathematical calculations
- execute feasibility study
- interpret technical requirements
- manage engineering project
- mathematics
- perform scientific research
- present artistic design proposals
- project management
- technical drawings
- use technical drawing software
Optional (32)
- CAE software
- adapt to new design materials
- adjust engineering designs
- analyse stress resistance of materials
- analyse stress resistance of products
- analyse test data
- build a product's physical model
- conduct performance tests
- conduct research on trends in design
- create a product's virtual model
- create technical plans
- design management
- design power plant systems
- design prototypes
- determine suitability of materials
- develop test procedures
- draft design specifications
- draw design sketches
- industrial research and development
- keep up with digital transformation of industrial processes
- liaise with engineers
- manufacturing processes
- model based system engineering
- nuclear physics
- perform test run
- prepare production prototypes
- product data management
- record test data
- supervise work on design planning
- thermohydraulics
- use CAD software
- use testing equipment
O*NET equivalents
From the official ESCO–O*NET crosswalk, strongest match first. A broader occupation takes in this one; a narrower one is a part of it.
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