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Occupation

Planning engineers

Planning engineers decide and develop the most appropriate economic models and engineering methods for projects. They work in a variety of fields such as civil engineering or construction. Planning engineers are normally onsite during an engineering project to supervise all stages of work and provide solutions.

Based on analysing 2010 job ads this job spends 23.1% of the time doing green tasks. A job advert for this occupation has on average 17 skills asked for, of which 1.3% are green skills. The pay band for this job is between £33,000 - £40,000.

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.

North Eastern Scotland
Cornwall and Isles of Scilly
Cumbria
Devon
East Yorkshire and Northern Lincolnshire

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.

Develop management plans

Found in 55 job ads (13.4%)

Research locations for wind farms

Found in 22 job ads (5.4%)

Lean manufacturing

Found in 22 job ads (5.4%)

Promote innovative infrastructure design

Found in 21 job ads (5.1%)

Urban planning law

Found in 20 job ads (4.9%)

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.

Planning and scheduling events and activities

Found in 1238 job ads (3.8%)

Communication

Found in 654 job ads (2.0%)

Management and administration

Found in 630 job ads (1.9%)

Perform planning

Found in 588 job ads (1.8%)

Directing operational activities

Found in 505 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.

Specialised construction activities

Found in 142 job ads (10.5%)

Manufacture of machinery and equipment

Found in 89 job ads (6.6%)

Development of building projects

Found in 68 job ads (5.0%)

Financial service activities, except insurance and pension funding

Found in 68 job ads (5.0%)

Civil engineering

Found in 66 job ads (4.9%)
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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.