Where an agricultural machinery technician can go next
5 destinations recorded, ranked by how much of the target role an agricultural machinery technician already meets. The closer to the top of Table 1, the less there is to learn.
Agricultural machinery technicians repair, overhaul and maintain agricultural equipment including tractors, tillage equipment, seeding equipment and harvesting equipment. They perform evaluations of the equipment, perform preventive maintenance activities and repair faults.
Also known as agricultural technician, agricultural conservation technician, agricultural production technician, agricultural research technician, agricultural equipment test technician, agricultural machinery mechanic, agricultural systems technician, farm equipment technician, agricultural automation technician, agricultural landscape technician.
Craft and related trades workers 38 skills on file 5 career moves 5 above 60% overlap Closest: pneumatic systems technician, 77%
- 70% and above · short step
- 50 to 70% · real move
- Below 50% · substantial retraining
Table 1 · Within reach
Table 2 · What the job itself asks for
An agricultural machinery technician needs 14 required skills and areas of knowledge. These 10 are the ones fewest other jobs share, so they say the most about the work.
- maintain agricultural machinery working with machinery and specialised equipment
- drive agricultural machines working with machinery and specialised equipment
- agricultural equipment agriculture, forestry, fisheries and veterinary
- perform maintenance on installed equipment constructing
- conduct routine machinery checks working with machinery and specialised equipment
- operate welding equipment constructing
- operate soldering equipment constructing
- use testing equipment working with machinery and specialised equipment
- resolve equipment malfunctions communication, collaboration and creativity
- perform machine maintenance working with machinery and specialised equipment
Table 3 · Jobs that lead here
The reverse view: occupations whose skills already cover much of what an agricultural machinery technician does. The figure is how much of this job each one brings.
- textile machinery technician 77% covered · difficulty 25.9
- forge equipment technician 76% covered · difficulty 27.4
- moulding machine technician 71% covered · difficulty 31.6
- construction equipment technician 70% covered · difficulty 33.3
- refrigeration air condition and heat pump technician 70% covered · difficulty 32.8
- heating and ventilation service installer 68% covered · difficulty 34.3
- industrial machinery mechanic 68% covered · difficulty 34.3
- medical device engineering technician 67% covered · difficulty 35.9
- fluid power technician 63% covered · difficulty 38.6
- pneumatic systems technician 62% covered · difficulty 40
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Agricultural machinery technician is filed under Craft and related trades workers, ISCO major group 7. The full index lists all ten groups.
How these figures were compiled
Overlap is how much of the target role is already part of an agricultural machinery technician’s work. It is directional: the figure for the reverse move differs. Every entry above opens the full comparison for that move: what carries over, what is missing, and where to start. The full method.