Where a civil engineer can go next
12 destinations recorded, ranked by how much of the target role a civil engineer already meets. The closer to the top of Table 1, the less there is to learn.
Civil engineers design, plan, and develop technical and engineering specifications for infrastructure and construction projects. They apply engineering knowledge in a vast array of projects, from the construction of infrastructure for transportation, housing projects, and luxury buildings, to the construction of natural sites. They design plans that seek to optimise materials and integrate specifications and resource allocation within the time constraints.
- Highest coverage recorded
- 66%
- Destinations
- 12each with a full record
- Within reach
- 7difficulty under 55
- Skills on file
- 96required or supplementary
Table 1 · Within reach
- transport engineer 66% covered · difficulty 38.9
- land surveyor 56% covered · difficulty 53.2
- geological engineer 54% covered · difficulty 52
- environmental mining engineer 52% covered · difficulty 50
- equipment engineer 47% covered · difficulty 52.3
- logistics engineer 46% covered · difficulty 53.8
- contract engineer 44% covered · difficulty 54.7
Table 2 · A bigger jump
Possible, but expect real retraining rather than a sideways step.
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civil engineer is filed under Professionals, ISCO major group 2. The full index lists all ten groups.
How these figures were compiled
Coverage is the share of the target role’s weighted skill requirement a civil engineer already meets, counting required skills in full and supplementary ones at 0.35. It is directional: the figure for the reverse move differs. Every entry above opens the full comparison for that move: what carries over, what is missing, and where to start. The full method.