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From manufacturing engineer to production engineer

12 of the 16 essential skills of a production engineer are already essential for a manufacturing engineer — about 75% of the job, before you learn anything new. It is the closest move from manufacturing engineer in the whole taxonomy.

These numbers compare two occupations, not you and a job. What you personally already cover depends on what you have actually done.

12
skills carry over
4
would be new
75%
of the target job covered
16
essential skills of a production engineer

What a production engineer does

Production engineers review and evaluate production performance, perform data analysis and identify under-performing production systems. They search for long or short term solutions, plan production enhancements and process optimizations.

What would be new

4 skills

Essential for a production engineer and not for a manufacturing engineer. Note that the taxonomy describes activities rather than tools, so some of these may be things you already do under a different name.

Other moves from manufacturing engineer

2 roles

manufacturing engineerproduction engineerThe other way round

Counted from ESCO, published by the European Commission. Occupations are compared on their essential skills only.

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How far are you from being a production engineer?

MyNodes reads your CV once, maps it to this same taxonomy, and shows you which roles you are already closest to and the few skills that would open the most doors. The file is deleted as soon as it has been read.