Occupation Atlastransport engineer
ESCO · http://data.europa.eu/esco/occupation/aad7819e-d62e-41de-a594-9f2be186a6c2
transport engineer
Transport engineers design and set the engineering specifications for the construction and development of roadways and transport infrastructure. They apply engineering concepts and knowledge for developing sustainable and efficient modes of transportation ranging from roads to canals, railways, and airports.
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Job Zone
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- 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
RICRealistic · Investigative · Conventional — the three strongest interests, in order
- R Realistic5.37
- I Investigative5.08
- C Conventional4.41
- E Enterprising3.09
- A Artistic2.13
- S Social1.97
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 Transportation Engineers (17-2051.01): in the official ESCO–O*NET crosswalk, its exact O*NET match, and the best-ranked match that has them. ESCO doesn't publish them directly.
Typically associated skills
Essential (20)
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.
- adjust engineering designs
- apply transportation management concepts
- approve engineering design
- civil engineering
- construction methods
- design principles
- design transportation systems
- engineering principles
- engineering processes
- execute analytical mathematical calculations
- follow health and safety procedures in construction
- manage budgets
- mathematics
- promote the use of sustainable transport
- road transport legislation
- technical drawings
- transportation engineering
- transportation methods
- urban planning
- use technical drawing software
Optional (13)
- analyse transport studies
- develop efficiency plans for logistics operations
- environmental engineering
- execute feasibility study
- green logistics
- health and safety regulations
- multimodal transport logistics
- promote innovative infrastructure design
- safety engineering
- simulate transport problems
- traffic engineering
- urban planning law
- use CAD software
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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