Career Overlap Transition record Edition 1 · ESCO v1.2.1
Table 1Transition record

microelectronics maintenance techniciantoaircraft de-icer installer

A microelectronics maintenance technician already meets 22% of what the aircraft de-icer installer role asks for. The move turns on 10 required skills not yet in the profile.

From microelectronics maintenance technician
22%
Overlap1
To aircraft de-icer installer
4 Skills carried over
10 Required, not held
70.3 Difficulty2
Career overlap Distant match

22%

Learning distance Substantial retraining

70.3/ 100

1 Share of the aircraft de-icer installer role’s weighted skill requirement already met by the microelectronics maintenance 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

Why this move works

A aircraft de-icer installer role treats 4 of its required skills as things a microelectronics maintenance technician already does. These are the ones it depends on most.

  • mechanics
  • quality standards
  • troubleshoot
  • use technical documentation

What stands in the way is 10 required skills the profile does not yet cover. Table 3 groups them; Table 4 says which to take first.

Table 2

Table 2 · What you already bring

Of the 4 skills that carry over, these are the ones fewest other occupations ask for. A aircraft de-icer installer role needs them, and most people applying for one will not have them already. This is the part of a microelectronics maintenance technician background worth leading with.

Skill the target role also needs Area
  • already held use technical documentation information skills
  • already held mechanics engineering, manufacturing and construction
  • already held troubleshoot communication, collaboration and creativity
  • already held quality standards business, administration and law

All 4 carried skills, including the 4 the aircraft de-icer installer role treats as required.

Table 3

Table 3 · What you would need to learn

The 21 missing skills fall into 9 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.

Skill to acquire Tier
01 handling and moving 3 required
  • required, not held align components required
  • required, not held fasten components required
  • required, not held use power tools required
02 engineering, manufacturing and construction 2 required, 3 supplementary
  • required, not held aircraft mechanics required
  • required, not held electromechanics required
  • optional, not held engineering processes optional
  • optional, not held electric current optional
  • optional, not held engineering principles optional
03 information skills 2 required, 1 supplementary
  • required, not held read engineering drawings required
  • required, not held read standard blueprints required
  • optional, not held keep records of work progress optional
04 assisting and caring 2 required
  • required, not held apply health and safety standards required
  • required, not held wear appropriate protective gear required
05 business, administration and law 1 required
  • required, not held common aviation safety regulations required
06 working with machinery and specialised equipment 3 supplementary
  • optional, not held install bleed air systems optional
  • optional, not held install deicing boot optional
  • optional, not held install electrothermal de-icing systems optional

3 further areas in the appendix

Table 4

Table 4 · Where to start

The 3 entries a aircraft de-icer installer role is least likely to hire without. The ordering is computed from the skill data, not from what pays.

Each entry opens a course search for that skill. Career Overlap earns nothing from these links.

Appendix

Appendix · The rest of the record

All 4 skills that carry over
Skill Type
  • already held mechanics knowledge
  • already held quality standards knowledge
  • already held troubleshoot skill
  • already held use technical documentation skill
The 3 learning areas not shown above
Skill to acquire Tier
07 constructing 2 supplementary
  • optional, not held conduct performance tests optional
  • optional, not held install pneumatic systems optional
08 communication, collaboration and creativity 1 supplementary
  • optional, not held liaise with engineers optional
09 natural sciences, mathematics and statistics 1 supplementary
  • optional, not held pneumatics optional
11 supplementary skills, helpful but not required
Skill to acquire Tier
  • optional, not held install bleed air systems optional
  • optional, not held install deicing boot optional
  • optional, not held install electrothermal de-icing systems optional
  • optional, not held engineering processes optional
  • optional, not held conduct performance tests optional
  • optional, not held electric current optional
  • optional, not held engineering principles optional
  • optional, not held install pneumatic systems optional
  • optional, not held keep records of work progress optional
  • optional, not held liaise with engineers optional
  • optional, not held pneumatics optional
22 held skills the aircraft de-icer installer role does not ask for
Skill Type
  • not needed by the target role CAD software knowledge
  • not needed by the target role CAM software knowledge
  • not needed by the target role automatic control system knowledge
  • not needed by the target role collaborate with engineers skill
  • not needed by the target role conduct inter-shift communication skill
  • not needed by the target role conduct routine machinery checks skill
  • not needed by the target role electronics knowledge
  • not needed by the target role environmental legislation knowledge
  • not needed by the target role firmware knowledge
  • not needed by the target role integrated circuits knowledge
  • not needed by the target role maintain microelectronics skill
  • not needed by the target role mathematics knowledge
  • not needed by the target role microassembly knowledge
  • not needed by the target role microelectronics knowledge
  • not needed by the target role physics knowledge
  • not needed by the target role program firmware skill
  • not needed by the target role quality assurance procedures knowledge
  • not needed by the target role robotics knowledge
  • not needed by the target role solder components onto electronic board skill
  • not needed by the target role surface-mount technology knowledge
  • not needed by the target role test microelectronics skill
  • not needed by the target role work safely with machines skill
7 gaps that are knowledge rather than practice

Knowledge gaps usually close through study. Practical skill gaps usually need something you can point at.

Skill to acquire Tier
  • required, not held common aviation safety regulations required
  • required, not held aircraft mechanics required
  • required, not held electromechanics required
  • optional, not held engineering processes optional
  • optional, not held electric current optional
  • optional, not held engineering principles optional
  • optional, not held pneumatics optional
Index
Note

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.