automation engineer
ISCO: 2141. Skills: 109. Essential: 45.
Essential skills
- adjust engineering designs
- analyse test data
- approve engineering design
- automatic control system
- automation technology
- computer engineering
- conduct literature research
- conduct quality control analysis
- control engineering
- define technical requirements
- demonstrate disciplinary expertise
- design automation components
- design drawings
- design prototypes
- develop electronic test procedures
- develop mechatronic test procedures
- electrical engineering
- electronics
- engineering principles
- engineering processes
- gather technical information
- industrial engineering
- interact professionally in research and professional environments
- manage personal professional development
- manage research data
- manufacturing processes
- mathematics
- mechanical engineering
- mechatronics
- monitor manufacturing quality standards
- operate open source software
- perform project management
- physics
- prepare production prototypes
- production processes
- record test data
- report analysis results
- robotic components
- robotics
- sensors
- simulate mechatronic design concepts
- synthesise information
- technical drawings
- think abstractly
- use technical drawing software
Supporting skills
- apply blended learning
- apply for research funding
- apply research ethics and scientific integrity principles in research activities
- assemble hardware components
- assemble mechatronic units
- assemble sensors
- build business relationships
- CAE software
- communicate with a non-scientific audience
- communicate with customers
- conduct research across disciplines
- coordinate engineering teams
- create technical plans
- define manufacturing quality criteria
- design firmware
- develop product design
- develop professional network with researchers and scientists
- disseminate results to the scientific community
- draft bill of materials
- draft scientific or academic papers and technical documentation
- electromechanics
- evaluate research activities
- examine engineering principles
- firmware
- follow standards for machinery safety
- guidance, navigation and control
- increase the impact of science on policy and society
- install automation components
- install mechatronic equipment
- install software
- integrate gender dimension in research
- maintain control systems for automated equipment
- maintain robotic equipment
- maintain safe engineering watches
- manage findable accessible interoperable and reusable data
- manage intellectual property rights
- manage open publications
- marine technology
- maritime law
- mentor individuals
- microelectromechanical systems
- microelectronics
- model based system engineering
- monitor automated machines
- perform resource planning
- perform scientific research
- perform test run
- program firmware
- promote open innovation in research
- promote the participation of citizens in scientific and research activities
- promote the transfer of knowledge
- publish academic research
- quality standards
- replace machines
- safety engineering
- set up automotive robot
- speak different languages
- teach in academic or vocational contexts
- test mechatronic units
- test sensors
- use CAD software
- use CAM software
- write routine reports
- write scientific publications