Career Overlap Occupation record
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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.

Also known as steam boilermaker, pressure vessel fabricator, boiler constructor, plater, welder boilermaker, steel fabricator, pressure vessel mender, boiler mender, boilermaker fitter, boiler smith, pressure vessel maker, boiler fabricator.

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

Fig. 2 · Career map 5 nearest · ESCO v1.2.1
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
  • 70% and above · short step
  • 50 to 70% · real move
  • Below 50% · substantial retraining
The 5 nearest destinations from boilermaker, each one a link to that move’s record. 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.
Table 1

Table 1 · Within reach

Table 2

Table 2 · What the job itself asks for

A boilermaker needs 22 required skills and areas of knowledge. These 10 are the ones fewest other jobs share, so they say the most about the work.

Required skill Area
  • operate oxy-fuel cutting torch working with machinery and specialised equipment
  • flammable fluids engineering, manufacturing and construction
  • handle gas cylinders handling and moving
  • select filler metal constructing
  • apply arc welding techniques constructing
  • ensure correct metal temperature working with machinery and specialised equipment
  • smooth burred surfaces handling and moving
  • fuel gas engineering, manufacturing and construction
  • metal smoothing technologies engineering, manufacturing and construction
  • manufacturing of heating equipment engineering, manufacturing and construction
Table 3

Table 3 · Jobs that lead here

The reverse view: occupations whose skills already cover much of what a boilermaker does. The figure is how much of this job each one brings.

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

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How these figures were compiled

Overlap is how much of the target role is already part of a boilermaker’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.