metrology techniciantometrologist
A metrology technician already meets 36% of what the metrologist role asks for. The move turns on 33 required skills not yet in the profile.
36%
74.1/ 100
1 Share of the metrologist role’s weighted skill requirement already met by the metrology technician profile. Required skills count in full, supplementary skills at 0.35. Directional: the figure for the reverse move differs. 2 Combines what is missing with how specialised it is, so a gap of general skills scores easier than the same number of narrow ones.
Why this move works
A metrologist role treats 15 of its required skills as things a metrology technician already does. These are the ones it depends on most.
- calibrate precision instrument
- create solutions to problems
- instrumentation engineering
- maintain technical equipment
- metrology
- operate precision measuring equipment
What stands in the way is 33 required skills the profile does not yet cover. Table 3 groups them; Table 4 says which to take first.
Table 2 · What you already bring
Of the 27 skills that carry over, these are the ones fewest other occupations ask for. A metrologist role needs them, and most people applying for one will not have them already. This is the part of a metrology technician background worth leading with.
- already held order equipment communication, collaboration and creativity
- already held study the relationships between quantities information skills
- already held algebra natural sciences, mathematics and statistics
- already held inspect material information skills
- already held write calibration report communication, collaboration and creativity
- already held calibrate precision instrument working with machinery and specialised equipment
All 27 carried skills, including the 15 the metrologist role treats as required.
Table 3 · What you would need to learn
The 38 missing skills fall into 7 areas of the ESCO skill hierarchy, numbered below in the order worth working in: the areas carrying the most required skills come first, and inside each one the required skills sit above the supplementary ones.
- required, not held develop measuring equipment required
- required, not held manage intellectual property rights required
- required, not held communicate with a non-scientific audience required
- required, not held develop professional network with researchers and scientists required
- required, not held disseminate results to the scientific community required
- required, not held draft scientific or academic papers and technical documentation required
- required, not held evaluate research activities required
- required, not held increase the impact of science on policy and society required
- required, not held interact professionally in research and professional environments required
- required, not held mentor individuals required
- required, not held promote the transfer of knowledge required
- required, not held publish academic research required
- required, not held speak different languages required
- required, not held think abstractly required
- required, not held write scientific publications required
- optional, not held apply blended learning optional
- optional, not held teach in academic or vocational contexts optional
- required, not held apply for research funding required
- required, not held apply research ethics and scientific integrity principles in research activities required
- required, not held apply scientific methods required
- required, not held conduct research across disciplines required
- required, not held demonstrate disciplinary expertise required
- required, not held integrate gender dimension in research required
- required, not held manage findable accessible interoperable and reusable data required
- required, not held manage research data required
- required, not held promote open innovation in research required
- required, not held promote the participation of citizens in scientific and research activities required
- required, not held synthesise information required
- required, not held develop calibration procedures required
- required, not held manage personal professional development required
- required, not held perform project management required
- optional, not held develop preventive maintenance procedures for instruments optional
- required, not held operate open source software required
- required, not held manage open publications required
- required, not held scientific research methodology required
- required, not held assemble measuring equipment required
1 further area in the appendix
Table 4 · Where to start
The 3 entries a metrologist role is least likely to hire without. The ordering is computed from the skill data, not from what pays.
- 01 develop measuring equipment skill · occupation specific
- 02 assemble measuring equipment skill · sector specific
- 03 manage intellectual property rights skill · sector specific
Each entry opens a course search for that skill. Career Overlap earns nothing from these links.
Appendix · The rest of the record
All 27 skills that carry over
- already held calibrate precision instrument skill
- already held create solutions to problems skill
- already held instrumentation engineering knowledge
- already held maintain technical equipment skill
- already held metrology knowledge
- already held operate precision measuring equipment skill
- already held operate scientific measuring equipment skill
- already held order equipment skill
- already held perform scientific research skill
- already held perform test run skill
- already held quality standards knowledge
- already held study the relationships between quantities skill
- already held troubleshoot skill
- already held use testing equipment skill
- already held write calibration report skill
- already held algebra knowledge
- already held biology knowledge
- already held calibrate electronic instruments skill
- already held calibrate laboratory equipment skill
- already held electronics knowledge
- already held geometry knowledge
- already held inspect material skill
- already held laboratory techniques knowledge
- already held maintain laboratory equipment skill
- already held meteorology knowledge
- already held physics knowledge
- already held read standard blueprints skill
The 1 learning area not shown above
- optional, not held calibrate mechatronic instruments optional
- optional, not held operate surveying instruments optional
5 supplementary skills, helpful but not required
- optional, not held calibrate mechatronic instruments optional
- optional, not held operate surveying instruments optional
- optional, not held apply blended learning optional
- optional, not held develop preventive maintenance procedures for instruments optional
- optional, not held teach in academic or vocational contexts optional
3 held skills the metrologist role does not ask for
- not needed by the target role analyse test data skill
- not needed by the target role contact scientists skill
- not needed by the target role write technical reports skill
1 gaps that are knowledge rather than practice
Knowledge gaps usually close through study. Practical skill gaps usually need something you can point at.
- required, not held scientific research methodology required
How this record was compiled
Both occupations are taken from ESCO, which lists the skills and knowledge each occupation is expected to have and marks every one required or optional. Nothing here is a prediction about hiring, and nothing here knows that a particular employer wants a particular certificate. Treat Table 3 as a starting point for your own research rather than a syllabus. The full method states what these figures can and cannot tell you.