Career Overlap Occupation record Edition 1 · ESCO v1.2.1
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Where a boilermaker can go next

5 destinations recorded, ranked by how much of the target role a boilermaker already meets. The closer to the top of Table 1, the less there is to learn.

Boilermakers operate a variety of equipment and machinery to create, repipe and retube hot water and steam boilers, producing them in all steps of the production process. They cut, gouge and shape the metal sheets and tubes for the boilers to size, using oxy-acetylene gas torches, assemble them by shielded metal arc welding, gas metal arc welding or gas tungsten arc welding, and finish them by the appropriate machine tools, power tools and coating.

Craft and related trades workers 61 skills on file 5 career moves 2 above 60% overlap Closest: oxy fuel burning machine operator, 66%

oxy fuel burning machine oper… 66% covered drill press operator 64% covered metal rolling mill operator 59% covered spot welder 58% covered plasma cutting machine operat… 57% covered boilermaker You are here
Fig. 2 — the 5 nearest destinations from boilermaker. Distance from the centre is how much retraining the move takes; the figure on each is how much of that role a boilermaker already covers. All 5 are listed in the tables below.
  • 70% and above · short step
  • 50 to 70% · real move
  • Below 50% · substantial retraining
Table 1

Table 1 · Within reach

Index

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boilermaker is filed under Craft and related trades workers, ISCO major group 7. The full index lists all ten groups.

Note

How these figures were compiled

Coverage is the share of the target role’s weighted skill requirement a boilermaker already meets, counting required skills in full and supplementary ones at 0.35. 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.