| Important Core Job Duties (in order of importance) For the Top 5 most important - How can you build experience and skill doing these? This will help now, to begin preparing for this type of occupation. |
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| Importance (%) | Description |
| Importance: 74 (%) | Description: Record maintenance information, including test results, material usage, and repairs made. |
| Importance: 74 (%) | Description: Lubricate wearing surfaces of mechanical parts, using oils or other lubricants. |
| Importance: 73 (%) | Description: Disassemble and repair mechanical control devices or valves, such as regulators, thermostats, or hydrants, using power tools, hand tools, and cutting torches. |
Electronics and Computer Engineering Technology Careers and Jobs
Select, Find and Prepare for Electronics and Computer Engineering Technology Careers and Jobs - all on one page
For people who want applied, hands-on work spanning both electronics hardware and computer systems. Use the tools below to see which electronics and computer engineering technology roles fit your background and goals.
This major blends hardware electronics with computer systems, preparing graduates for roles that bridge both disciplines. Use the tools below to explore Electronics and Computer Engineering Technology-related job titles sorted by growth rate, salary, or required education. You can start with entry points like Systems Technician, or look ahead to advanced roles such as Systems Engineer or Technical Project Lead. Along the way, you will see specific certifications, such as CompTIA A+ / Certified Electronics Technician, that can help you move up the career ladder.
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This page will take you through 4 steps to (1) Select from Electronics and Computer Engineering Technology careers/jobs, (2) Find Electronics and Computer Engineering Technology job listings, (3) Prepare for Electronics and Computer Engineering Technology careers, and (4) Provide Electronics and Computer Engineering Technology career-specific resources.
Step 1: Select a Career/Job: This page starts with 4 ways for you to identify and select from listings of Electronics and Computer Engineering Technology careers/jobs:
A) Fastest Growing Electronics and Computer Engineering Technology Careers - 2023 to 2033 (est.)
These listings are based on job growth estimates and helps you to identify the fastest growing and evolving Electronics and Computer Engineering Technology careers. Some careers may not initially seem related to Electronics and Computer Engineering Technology, so relevant Electronics and Computer Engineering Technology jobs are listed alongside each listing. This can also help us to identify which careers (bottom of the listing) may have negative growth - perhaps due to automation or planned obsolescence.
B) Median Annual Salary U.S. Electronics and Computer Engineering Technology Careers
These listings are sorted (descending) by median annual salary in the U.S. This may help us to identify our ideal career. We may not qualify at this time for the desired career, but this listing and the results provided can help us to explore job details, as well as learn how to appropriately prepare for the career.
C) Electronics and Computer Engineering Technology Career Ladders (Educational Requirements)
These listings will help us to identify Electronics and Computer Engineering Technology careers sorted by educational requirements (with the most difficult to obtain listed first). This may help us to identify career ladders (as we scroll down the list), and help us to get jobs that we qualify for now.
D) Select From a Listing of 87 Electronics and Computer Engineering Technology Jobs.
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Step 2: Find a Job: After you have selected a career/job title above, you will see a form asking for your location. You will see several radio selection choices to utilize the job search site of your choice.
Step 3: Prepare For a Career: In this section you will gain access to detailed information to help you prepare for the chosen career. Information may include (not every career choice includes all of the elements below - updates occur quarterly):
Core Duties: Lists the primary worker-related tasks performed in this occupation
Supplemental Duties: Lists additional tasks that are performed but are secondary to the core duties
Work Activities: Summarizes the broad types of behaviors and actions related to this career
Specific Work Activities: Provides more granular day-to-day activities tied to the work performed
Essential Skills: Provides foundational skills that are core to performing this specific occupation
Transferable Skills: Provides career-portable skills that can be applied across multiple occupations and industries
Day-in-the-Life Summaries: Provides a snapshot of the key activities performed on a typical workday in this career
Knowledge Required: Provides the requirements regarding the acquisition of facts and principles
Software Skills: Lists software tools commonly used in this occupation, organized by category and priority
Preparation Required: Provides a summary of the required experience and education
Education Required: Detailed breakdown of the education required
Training and Experience Required: Detailed breakdown of the training and Training and Experience Required
Local Salary Information: Provides national and local salary ranges
Certifications: Provides appropriate government and private-sector certifications and/or credentials that may be required
Professional Associations: Provides professional associations that are related to the career selected
Job Listings: Provides links to active current job listings for the selected career, along with multiple similar job titles to explore. All information appears on this page without navigating away.
Related Careers to Consider: Lists up to 20 careers that might be of interest to you (related to your initial choice - what they do, what they know, and what they're called), ranked by best fit.
** If you clicked on a link from section D (as described in Step 1 above), you will see one or more links to an occupation that is usually a bit more general than your initial job selection - the link(s) is directly related to the specific job you identified through your prior selections.
*NOTE: It is possible that there may not be a career path identified for the specific job you selected in Step 1. If this is the case, scroll up the page and click on a different career/job.
Step 4: Career-Specific Resources (detailed and constantly updated): Continue to scroll down the page and you will find tabs that provide detailed (updated) links specific to the career you selected. This information includes:
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Job Description: Sources that provide job descriptions, which are vital to resume and interview preparation.
Interviews: Provides links that can help you to prepare for and successfully complete the job interview. Can also assist with coffee chats.
Step by Step: Provides links to resources that can help to organize the career search process.
LinkedIn: One of the best professional social media sites that provides links, opportunities, and networking specifically for careers and career development.
Step 1 of 4: Select a Career/Job
58 Electronics and Computer Engineering Technology careers are listed below (sorted by Percentage Change in Total Job Openings - 2023 to 2033 est.). Electronics and Computer Engineering Technology-related jobs specific to each career are also provided. This shows which careers are emerging and growing the fastest. Please Scroll and Select below:
| Occupations | U.S. Job Openings 2023-2033 (% change) | Electronics and Computer Engineering Technology-Related Jobs |
66 Electronics and Computer Engineering Technology careers are listed below (sorted by U.S. National Median Salary). Electronics and Computer Engineering Technology-related jobs specific to each occupation are also provided. Please Scroll and Select below::
| Occupations | National Median Salary | Electronics and Computer Engineering Technology-Related Jobs |
66 Electronics and Computer Engineering Technology careers are listed (sorted by Education/Preparation Requirements - descending) to provide career ladders. Electronics and Computer Engineering Technology-related jobs specific to each career are also provided.
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Education/Preparation Categories: 5 = Usually requires graduate school (e.g., Master's degree, Ph.D., M.D., or J.D.) 4 = Usually requires a four-year Bachelor's degree 3 = Usually requires vocational training, related on-the-job experience, or Associate's degree 2 = Usually requires a high school diploma or GED, but not always Please Scroll and Select below: |
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| Occupations | Education/Preparation | Electronics and Computer Engineering Technology-Related Jobs |
Scroll through the picklist (below). There are 87 specific Electronics and Computer Engineering Technology job titles listed. Select those that may be of interest - you will get active job listing links, along with detailed resources to help you prepare for a career related to that job.
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Step 2 of 4: Find a Job
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Control and Valve Installers and Repairers, Except Mechanical Door.
Step 3 of 4: Prepare For a Career
Control and Valve Installers and Repairers, Except Mechanical Door
Description: Install, repair, and maintain mechanical regulating and controlling devices, such as electric meters, gas regulators, thermostats, safety and flow valves, and other mechanical governors.
Please click on a section below to expand and see detailed occupational information related to "Control and Valve Installers and Repairers, Except Mechanical Door":
U.S. Total Employment (2023):
50,800U.S. Total Employment (2033 est.):
51,900
Employment Change (2023-2033 est.):
1,100 (2.3%) Average Annual Job Openings (2023-2033 est.):
4,200
Core Duties
Supplemental Duties
| Important Supplemental Job Duties (in order of importance)
For the Top 5 most important - How can you build experience and skill doing these? This will help now, to begin preparing for this type of occupation. |
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| Importance (%) | Description |
| Importance: 66 (%) | Description: Disconnect or remove defective or unauthorized meters, using hand tools. |
| Importance: 64 (%) | Description: Examine valves or mechanical control device parts for defects, dents, or loose attachments, and mark malfunctioning areas of defective units. |
| Importance: 61 (%) | Description: Test valves and regulators for leaks and accurate temperature and pressure settings, using precision testing equipment. |
| Importance: 58 (%) | Description: Clean internal compartments and moving parts, using rags and cleaning compounds. |
| Importance: 58 (%) | Description: Report hazardous field situations and damaged or missing meters. |
| Importance: 56 (%) | Description: Shut off service and notify repair crews when major repairs are required, such as the replacement of underground pipes or wiring. |
| Importance: 56 (%) | Description: Record meter readings and installation data on meter cards, work orders, or field service orders, or enter data into hand-held computers. |
| Importance: 56 (%) | Description: Repair electric meters and components, such as transformers and relays, and replace metering devices, dial glasses, and faulty or incorrect wiring, using hand tools. |
| Importance: 56 (%) | Description: Turn valves to allow measured amounts of air or gas to pass through meters at specified flow rates. |
| Importance: 52 (%) | Description: Turn meters on or off to establish or close service. |
| Importance: 52 (%) | Description: Mount and install meters and other electric equipment such as time clocks, transformers, and circuit breakers, using electricians' hand tools. |
| Importance: 46 (%) | Description: Make adjustments to meter components, such as setscrews or timing mechanisms, so that they conform to specifications. |
| Importance: 45 (%) | Description: Measure tolerances of assembled and salvageable parts for conformance to standards or specifications, using gauges, micrometers, and calipers. |
| Importance: 45 (%) | Description: Install, inspect and test electric meters, relays, and power sources to detect causes of malfunctions and inaccuracies, using hand tools and testing equipment. |
| Importance: 45 (%) | Description: Calibrate instrumentation, such as meters, gauges, and regulators, for pressure, temperature, flow, and level. |
| Importance: 44 (%) | Description: Clean plant growth, scale, paint, soil, or rust from meter housings, using wire brushes, scrapers, buffers, sandblasters, or cleaning compounds. |
| Importance: 44 (%) | Description: Connect regulators to test stands, and turn screw adjustments until gauges indicate that inlet and outlet pressures meet specifications. |
| Importance: 41 (%) | Description: Vary air pressure flowing into regulators and turn handles to assess functioning of valves and pistons. |
| Importance: 41 (%) | Description: Dismantle meters, and replace or adjust defective parts such as cases, shafts, gears, disks, and recording mechanisms, using soldering irons and hand tools. |
| Importance: 37 (%) | Description: Investigate instances of illegal tapping into service lines. |
| Importance: 37 (%) | Description: Trace and tag meters or house lines. |
| Importance: 37 (%) | Description: Connect hoses from provers to meter inlets and outlets, and raise prover bells until prover gauges register zero. |
| Importance: 36 (%) | Description: Install regulators and related equipment such as gas meters, odorization units, and gas pressure telemetering equipment. |
| Importance: 34 (%) | Description: Cut seats to receive new orifices, tap inspection ports, and perform other repairs to salvage usable materials, using hand tools and machine tools. |
| Importance: 34 (%) | Description: Attach air hoses to meter inlets, plug outlets, and observe gauges for pressure losses to test internal seams for leaks. |
| Importance: 32 (%) | Description: Replace defective parts, such as bellows, range springs, and toggle switches, and reassemble units according to blueprints, using cam presses and hand tools. |
| Importance: 30 (%) | Description: Splice and connect cables from meters or current transformers to pull boxes or switchboards, using hand tools. |
| Importance: 28 (%) | Description: Repair leaks in valve seats or bellows of automotive heater thermostats, using soft solder, flux, and acetylene torches. |
| Importance: 27 (%) | Description: Advise customers on proper installation of valves or regulators and related equipment. |
Work Activities
| Important General Work Activities (in order of importance)
For the Top 5 most important - How can you build experience and skill doing these? This will help now, to begin preparing for this type of occupation. |
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| Importance (%) | Description |
| Importance: 88 (%) | Description: Repairing and Maintaining Mechanical Equipment: Servicing, repairing, adjusting, and testing machines, devices, moving parts, and equipment that operate primarily on the basis of mechanical (not electronic) principles. |
| Importance: 86 (%) | Description: Inspecting Equipment, Structures, or Materials: Inspecting equipment, structures, or materials to identify the cause of errors or other problems or defects. |
| Importance: 85 (%) | Description: Communicating with Supervisors, Peers, or Subordinates: Providing information to supervisors, co-workers, and subordinates by telephone, in written form, e-mail, or in person. |
| Importance: 82 (%) | Description: Monitoring Processes, Materials, or Surroundings: Monitoring and reviewing information from materials, events, or the environment, to detect or assess problems. |
| Importance: 82 (%) | Description: Getting Information: Observing, receiving, and otherwise obtaining information from all relevant sources. |
| Importance: 82 (%) | Description: Making Decisions and Solving Problems: Analyzing information and evaluating results to choose the best solution and solve problems. |
| Importance: 79 (%) | Description: Evaluating Information to Determine Compliance with Standards: Using relevant information and individual judgment to determine whether events or processes comply with laws, regulations, or standards. |
| Importance: 78 (%) | Description: Updating and Using Relevant Knowledge: Keeping up-to-date technically and applying new knowledge to your job. |
| Importance: 78 (%) | Description: Documenting/Recording Information: Entering, transcribing, recording, storing, or maintaining information in written or electronic/magnetic form. |
| Importance: 77 (%) | Description: Handling and Moving Objects: Using hands and arms in handling, installing, positioning, and moving materials, and manipulating things. |
| Importance: 76 (%) | Description: Operating Vehicles, Mechanized Devices, or Equipment: Running, maneuvering, navigating, or driving vehicles or mechanized equipment, such as forklifts, passenger vehicles, aircraft, or watercraft. |
| Importance: 75 (%) | Description: Organizing, Planning, and Prioritizing Work: Developing specific goals and plans to prioritize, organize, and accomplish your work. |
| Importance: 74 (%) | Description: Identifying Objects, Actions, and Events: Identifying information by categorizing, estimating, recognizing differences or similarities, and detecting changes in circumstances or events. |
| Importance: 73 (%) | Description: Performing General Physical Activities: Performing general physical activities includes doing activities that require considerable use of your arms and legs and moving your whole body, such as climbing, lifting, balancing, walking, stooping, and handling materials. |
| Importance: 71 (%) | Description: Processing Information: Compiling, coding, categorizing, calculating, tabulating, auditing, or verifying information or data. |
| Importance: 70 (%) | Description: Working with Computers: Using computers and computer systems (including hardware and software) to program, write software, set up functions, enter data, or process information. |
| Importance: 70 (%) | Description: Establishing and Maintaining Interpersonal Relationships: Developing constructive and cooperative working relationships with others, and maintaining them over time. |
| Importance: 69 (%) | Description: Analyzing Data or Information: Identifying the underlying principles, reasons, or facts of information by breaking down information or data into separate parts. |
| Importance: 67 (%) | Description: Training and Teaching Others: Identifying the educational needs of others, developing formal educational or training programs or classes, and teaching or instructing others. |
| Importance: 67 (%) | Description: Controlling Machines and Processes: Using either control mechanisms or direct physical activity to operate machines or processes (not including computers or vehicles). |
| Importance: 66 (%) | Description: Repairing and Maintaining Electronic Equipment: Servicing, repairing, calibrating, regulating, fine-tuning, or testing machines, devices, and equipment that operate primarily on the basis of electrical or electronic (not mechanical) principles. |
| Importance: 65 (%) | Description: Judging the Qualities of Objects, Services, or People: Assessing the value, importance, or quality of things or people. |
| Importance: 65 (%) | Description: Scheduling Work and Activities: Scheduling events, programs, and activities, as well as the work of others. |
| Importance: 64 (%) | Description: Estimating the Quantifiable Characteristics of Products, Events, or Information: Estimating sizes, distances, and quantities; or determining time, costs, resources, or materials needed to perform a work activity. |
| Importance: 63 (%) | Description: Thinking Creatively: Developing, designing, or creating new applications, ideas, relationships, systems, or products, including artistic contributions. |
| Importance: 62 (%) | Description: Communicating with People Outside the Organization: Communicating with people outside the organization, representing the organization to customers, the public, government, and other external sources. This information can be exchanged in person, in writing, or by telephone or e-mail. |
| Importance: 61 (%) | Description: Drafting, Laying Out, and Specifying Technical Devices, Parts, and Equipment: Providing documentation, detailed instructions, drawings, or specifications to tell others about how devices, parts, equipment, or structures are to be fabricated, constructed, assembled, modified, maintained, or used. |
| Importance: 61 (%) | Description: Guiding, Directing, and Motivating Subordinates: Providing guidance and direction to subordinates, including setting performance standards and monitoring performance. |
Specific Work Activities
| Important Specific Work Activities
How can you begin to build experience and skill doing these? This will help now, to begin preparing for this type of occupation. Specific Work Activities appear below: |
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| Adjust equipment to ensure optimal performance. | |
| Adjust the tension of nuts or bolts. | |
| Calibrate equipment to specifications. | |
| Clean equipment, parts, or tools to repair or maintain them in good working order. | |
| Communicate with coworkers to coordinate installations or repairs. | |
| Confer with coworkers to coordinate work activities. | |
| Connect electrical components or equipment. | |
| Connect hoses to equipment or piping. | |
| Control power supply connections. | |
| Cut materials according to specifications or needs. | |
| Disassemble equipment for maintenance or repair. | |
| Document operational activities. | |
| Enter codes or other information into computers. | |
| Inspect electrical or electronic systems for defects. | |
| Inspect mechanical equipment to locate damage, defects, or wear. | |
| Install electrical components, equipment, or systems. | |
| Install metering equipment. | |
| Investigate illegal or suspicious activities. | |
| Lubricate equipment to allow proper functioning. | |
| Maintain repair or maintenance records. | |
| Measure distances or dimensions. | |
| Remove parts or components from equipment. | |
| Repair electrical circuits or wiring. | |
| Repair electrical components. | |
| Repair non-engine automotive or vehicle components. | |
| Repair worn, damaged, or defective mechanical parts. | |
| Replace worn, damaged, or defective mechanical parts. | |
| Test mechanical equipment to ensure proper functioning. | |
| Train customers in the use of products. | |
Knowledge Required
| Knowledge Required (in order of importance)
For the Top 5 most important - How can you build experience and skill doing these? This will help now, to begin preparing for this type of occupation. |
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| Importance (%) | Description |
| Importance: 81 (%) | Description: Mechanical: Knowledge of machines and tools, including their designs, uses, repair, and maintenance. |
| Importance: 71 (%) | Description: Engineering and Technology: Knowledge of the practical application of engineering science and technology. This includes applying principles, techniques, procedures, and equipment to the design and production of various goods and services. |
| Importance: 69 (%) | Description: Public Safety and Security: Knowledge of relevant equipment, policies, procedures, and strategies to promote effective local, state, or national security operations for the protection of people, data, property, and institutions. |
| Importance: 64 (%) | Description: Customer and Personal Service: Knowledge of principles and processes for providing customer and personal services. This includes customer needs assessment, meeting quality standards for services, and evaluation of customer satisfaction. |
| Importance: 64 (%) | Description: Computers and Electronics: Knowledge of circuit boards, processors, chips, electronic equipment, and computer hardware and software, including applications and programming. |
| Importance: 63 (%) | Description: Mathematics: Knowledge of arithmetic, algebra, geometry, calculus, statistics, and their applications. |
| Importance: 62 (%) | Description: Design: Knowledge of design techniques, tools, and principles involved in production of precision technical plans, blueprints, drawings, and models. |
| Importance: 60 (%) | Description: Production and Processing: Knowledge of raw materials, production processes, quality control, costs, and other techniques for maximizing the effective manufacture and distribution of goods. |
Essential Skills
| Essential Skills (in order of importance)
These are the foundational skills most central to success in this occupation. For the Top 5 most important, how can you begin building experience and confidence using these skills now? |
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| Importance (%) | Description |
| Importance: 56 (%) | Description: Critical Thinking: Using logic and reasoning to identify the strengths and weaknesses of alternative solutions, conclusions, or approaches to problems. |
| Importance: 52 (%) | Description: Active Listening: Giving full attention to what other people are saying, taking time to understand the points being made, asking questions as appropriate, and not interrupting at inappropriate times. |
| Importance: 52 (%) | Description: Speaking: Talking to others to convey information effectively. |
| Importance: 52 (%) | Description: Monitoring: Monitoring/Assessing performance of yourself, other individuals, or organizations to make improvements or take corrective action. |
Transferable Skills
| Transferable Skills (in order of importance)
These are skills that can transfer across occupations and industries. For the Top 5 most important, how can you strengthen these skills now so they support both this career and future career flexibility? |
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| Importance (%) | Description |
| Importance: 54 (%) | Description: Repairing: Repairing machines or systems using the needed tools. |
| Importance: 52 (%) | Description: Operations Monitoring: Watching gauges, dials, or other indicators to make sure a machine is working properly. |
| Importance: 52 (%) | Description: Equipment Maintenance: Performing routine maintenance on equipment and determining when and what kind of maintenance is needed. |
| Importance: 52 (%) | Description: Troubleshooting: Determining causes of operating errors and deciding what to do about it. |
| Importance: 52 (%) | Description: Quality Control Analysis: Conducting tests and inspections of products, services, or processes to evaluate quality or performance. |
| Importance: 52 (%) | Description: Judgment and Decision Making: Considering the relative costs and benefits of potential actions to choose the most appropriate one. |
Day-in-the-Life Summaries
| Day-in-the-Life Summaries These summaries show the main types of activities you are likely to perform on a regular basis in this occupation. How can you imagine your typical workday — using these examples to see if this type of work fits you? |
| Activity: Adjust equipment to ensure adequate performance. |
| Activity: Clean tools, equipment, facilities, or work areas. |
| Activity: Communicate with others about operational plans or activities. |
| Activity: Connect components or supply lines to equipment or tools. |
| Activity: Cut materials. |
| Activity: Disassemble equipment. |
| Activity: Inspect commercial, industrial, or production systems or equipment. |
| Activity: Install commercial or production equipment. |
| Activity: Investigate criminal or legal matters. |
| Activity: Maintain operational records. |
| Activity: Maintain tools or equipment. |
| Activity: Measure physical characteristics of materials, products, or equipment. |
| Activity: Process digital or online data. |
| Activity: Repair electrical or electronic equipment. |
| Activity: Repair tools or equipment. |
| Activity: Repair vehicle components. |
| Activity: Test performance of equipment or systems. |
| Activity: Train others to use equipment or products. |
Software Skills
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Software Skills These are examples of software tools commonly used in this occupation, organized from most to least important for your career preparation. How can you start learning or practicing the highest-priority tools so that you feel confident using them on the job? |
| High-Priority Tech Skills |
| Electronic mail software: |
| Microsoft Outlook |
| Office suite software: |
| Microsoft Office software |
| Spreadsheet software: |
| Microsoft Excel |
| Emerging Tech Skills |
| Computer aided design CAD software: |
| Autodesk AutoCAD |
| Data base user interface and query software: |
| Microsoft Access Structured query language SQL |
| Document management software: |
| Microsoft SharePoint |
| Enterprise resource planning ERP software: |
| SAP software |
| Operating system software: |
| Microsoft Windows |
| Presentation software: |
| Microsoft PowerPoint |
| Process mapping and design software: |
| Microsoft Visio |
| Project management software: |
| Oracle Primavera Enterprise Project Portfolio Management |
| Word processing software: |
| Microsoft Word |
| General Software Tools |
| Analytical or scientific software: |
| Emerson FIRSTVUE Value Sizing |
| Development environment software: |
| Ladder Logic |
| Enterprise resource planning ERP software: |
| IBM Maximo Asset Management |
| Graphical user interface development software: |
| Graphical user interface GUI design software |
| Industrial control software: |
| Programmable logic controller PLC software Supervisory control and data acquisition SCADA software Wonderware software |
| Project management software: |
| Maintenance record software |
Preparation Required
| Preparation Required - How much preparation is needed to obtain this type of job? |
| Job Zone Three: Medium Preparation Needed |
| Previous work-related skill, knowledge, or experience is required for these occupations. For example, an electrician must have completed three or four years of apprenticeship or several years of vocational training, and often must have passed a licensing exam, in order to perform the job. |
| Most occupations in this zone require training in vocational schools, related on-the-job experience, or an associate's degree. |
| Employees in these occupations usually need one or two years of training involving both on-the-job experience and informal training with experienced workers. A recognized apprenticeship program may be associated with these occupations. |
| These occupations usually involve using communication and organizational skills to coordinate, supervise, manage, or train others to accomplish goals. Examples include hydroelectric production managers, desktop publishers, electricians, agricultural technicians, barbers, court reporters and simultaneous captioners, and medical assistants. |
Education Required
| Education Required - by frequency of educational attainment This shows you details about the level of education most commonly held by workers in this occupation. How can you begin planning the educational pathway that will prepare you best for this type of work? |
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| Frequency of Attainment (%) | Level of Education |
| Frequency of Attainment: 47.0 (%) | Level of Education: High School Diploma - or the equivalent (for example, GED) |
| Frequency of Attainment: 41.8 (%) | Level of Education: Post-Secondary Certificate - awarded for training completed after high school (for example, in agriculture or natural resources, computer services, personal or culinary services, engineering technologies, healthcare, construction trades, mechanic and repair technologies, or precision production) |
| Frequency of Attainment: 6.8 (%) | Level of Education: Associate's Degree (or other 2-year degree) |
| Frequency of Attainment: 3.0 (%) | Level of Education: Some College Courses |
| Frequency of Attainment: 1.4 (%) | Level of Education: Bachelor's Degree |
Training and Experience Required
| Training and Experience Required - by frequency of training and work experience attainment This section shows you how often different types of training and work experience are required for this occupation. How can you start gaining the kinds of experience and training that are most common for this type of work? |
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| Frequency of Attainment (%) | Level of Training and Work Experience |
| Frequency of Attainment: 27.6 (%) | Level of Training and Work Experience: Over 4 years, up to and including 6 years |
| Frequency of Attainment: 23.3 (%) | Level of Training and Work Experience: Over 2 years, up to and including 4 years |
| Frequency of Attainment: 19.6 (%) | Level of Training and Work Experience: Over 1 year, up to and including 2 years |
| Frequency of Attainment: 13.8 (%) | Level of Training and Work Experience: Over 6 years, up to and including 8 years |
| Frequency of Attainment: 8.3 (%) | Level of Training and Work Experience: None |
| Frequency of Attainment: 5.5 (%) | Level of Training and Work Experience: Over 6 months, up to and including 1 year |
| Frequency of Attainment: 1.4 (%) | Level of Training and Work Experience: Over 3 months, up to and including 6 months |
| Frequency of Attainment: 0.5 (%) | Level of Training and Work Experience: Over 1 month, up to and including 3 months |
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