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Occupation

Mechanical engineers

Job holders in this group perform occupations not elsewhere classified in Unit Group 2122: Mechanical engineers

Based on analysing 3874 job ads this job spends 33.8% of the time doing green tasks. A job advert for this occupation has on average 15 skills asked for, of which 1.4% are green skills. The pay band for this job is between £38,000 - £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.

Cumbria
West Central Scotland
North Eastern Scotland
Northern Ireland
Southern Scotland

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.

Environmental engineering

Found in 112 job ads (13.8%)

Safety engineering

Found in 55 job ads (6.8%)

Promote innovative infrastructure design

Found in 50 job ads (6.2%)

Energy performance of buildings

Found in 35 job ads (4.3%)

Lean manufacturing

Found in 34 job ads (4.2%)

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.

Directing operational activities

Found in 893 job ads (1.8%)

Communication

Found in 734 job ads (1.5%)

Coordinating activities with others

Found in 638 job ads (1.3%)

Planning and scheduling events and activities

Found in 631 job ads (1.3%)

Leading and motivating

Found in 533 job ads (1.1%)

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 367 job ads (13.8%)

Engineering activities and related technical consultancy

Found in 153 job ads (5.7%)

Specialised construction activities

Found in 96 job ads (3.6%)

Manufacture of electric motors, generators and transformers

Found in 87 job ads (3.3%)

Manufacture of other special-purpose machinery

Found in 107 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.