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Occupation

Mechanical design engineers

Mechanical design engineers perform engineering duties in planning and designing tools, engines, machines, and other mechanically functioning equipment. They oversee installation, operation, maintenance, and repair of equipment such as centralised heat, gas, water, and steam systems.

Based on analysing 5013 job ads this job spends 26.2% of the time doing green tasks. A job advert for this occupation has on average 13 skills asked for, of which 1.0% are green skills. The pay band for this job is between £35,000 - £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.

East Anglia
Dorset and Somerset
Cumbria
Herefordshire, Worcestershire and Warwickshire
Cornwall and Isles of Scilly

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.

Lean manufacturing

Found in 70 job ads (13.2%)

Safety engineering

Found in 30 job ads (5.6%)

Environmental engineering

Found in 28 job ads (5.3%)

Energy performance of buildings

Found in 25 job ads (4.7%)

Renewable energy technologies

Found in 23 job ads (4.3%)

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.

Mechanical engineering

Found in 1582 job ads (4.4%)

3d modelling

Found in 967 job ads (2.7%)

Cad software

Found in 955 job ads (2.7%)

Communication

Found in 797 job ads (2.2%)

Mechanics and metal trades

Found in 740 job ads (2.1%)

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 other special-purpose machinery

Found in 714 job ads (19.4%)

Manufacture of machinery and equipment

Found in 561 job ads (15.2%)

Manufacture of electric motors, generators and transformers

Found in 163 job ads (4.4%)

Engineering activities and related technical consultancy

Found in 114 job ads (3.1%)

Manufacture of machinery for mining, quarrying and construction

Found in 93 job ads (2.5%)
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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.