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Occupation

Power systems engineers

Power systems engineers supervise the energy conversion and distribution processes. They analyse the energy supply and consumption efficiency and develop new ways to improve the existing processes. They study the environmental impact of energy use and combine the production of renewable energy in power systems.

Based on analysing 1812 job ads this job spends 10.3% of the time doing green tasks. A job advert for this occupation has on average 14 skills asked for, of which 2.0% are green skills. The pay band for this job is between £40,000 - £45,000.

Top regions

At the point of upload, job adverts are tagged with a specific location. These locations are standardised to ITL 2 (International Territory Levels) codes. For each ITL region, we divide the proportion of job adverts for an occupation by the proportion for all occupations - this gives us a measure of which regions have proportionally more or less job adverts for each occupation - we call this the "location quotient". We display the ITL regions with the highest location quotients for this occupation.

South Yorkshire
West Central Scotland
Gloucestershire, Wiltshire and Bristol/Bath area
Leicestershire, Rutland and Northamptonshire
West Midlands

Top green skills for this occupation

For each job advert we extract the green skills it asks for. We display the 5 most commonly asked for green skills for this occupation.

Renewable energy technologies

Found in 36 job ads (9.2%)

Lean manufacturing

Found in 31 job ads (7.9%)

Energy efficiency

Found in 27 job ads (6.9%)

Conduct energy audit

Found in 21 job ads (5.3%)

Collaborate on international energy projects

Found in 21 job ads (5.3%)

Top skills for this occupation

For each job advert we extract the skills it asks for. We display the 5 most commonly asked for skills (green or not) for this occupation.

Programmable logic controller

Found in 713 job ads (6.0%)

Communication

Found in 252 job ads (2.1%)

Project commissioning

Found in 214 job ads (1.8%)

Troubleshoot

Found in 211 job ads (1.8%)

Electrical engineering

Found in 182 job ads (1.5%)

Industries

We extract industry information from job adverts using the way the company is described in the advert. We display the most common industries job adverts in this occupation are linked to.

Manufacture of machinery and equipment

Found in 186 job ads (13.7%)

Manufacture of electronic industrial process control equipment

Found in 129 job ads (9.5%)

Manufacture of electric motors, generators and transformers

Found in 128 job ads (9.4%)

Manufacture of electric motors, generators, transformers and electricity distribution and control apparatus

Found in 60 job ads (4.4%)

Manufacture of electricity distribution and control apparatus

Found in 55 job ads (4.0%)
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About this analysis

This analysis has been compiled by measuring the greenness of online job adverts. You can read more about the methodology here.