Where a drilling engineer can go next
5 destinations recorded, ranked by how much of the target role a drilling engineer already meets. The closer to the top of Table 1, the less there is to learn.
Drilling engineers develop and supervise the drilling of gas and oil wells. They assist in the designing, testing and creation of wells and are employed on land or offshore platforms. Drilling engineers work with other mining professionals and oversee the drilling progress and safety of the site.
- Highest coverage recorded
- 35%
- Destinations
- 5each with a full record
- Within reach
- 0difficulty under 55
- Skills on file
- 24required or supplementary
Table 2 · A bigger jump
Possible, but expect real retraining rather than a sideways step.
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drilling 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 drilling 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.