Where a boring machine operator can go next
5 destinations recorded, ranked by how much of the target role a boring machine operator already meets. The closer to the top of Table 1, the less there is to learn.
Boring machine operators prepare, operate, and maintain single or multiple spindle machines using a boring bar with a hardened, rotary, multipointed cutting tool in order to enlarge an existing hole in a fabricated workpiece.
Also known as boring machine setter, multiple-spindle vertical boring mill set-up operator, automatic boring technician, automatic boring machine operator, vertical boring machine operative, horizontal boring machine operative, boring machine operative, borer operator, vertical boring machine setter, horizontal boring machine setter, boring mill operator, boring mill set-up tender.
Craft and related trades workers 47 skills on file 5 career moves 5 above 60% overlap Closest: plasma cutting machine operator, 75%
- 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
A boring machine operator needs 16 required skills and areas of knowledge. These 10 are the ones fewest other jobs share, so they say the most about the work.
- types of boring heads engineering, manufacturing and construction
- types of drill bits engineering, manufacturing and construction
- tend boring machine working with machinery and specialised equipment
- dispose of cutting waste material handling and moving
- supply machine with appropriate tools handling and moving
- remove inadequate workpieces handling and moving
- remove processed workpiece handling and moving
- types of metal engineering, manufacturing and construction
- operate precision measuring equipment working with machinery and specialised equipment
- supply machine working with machinery and specialised equipment
Table 3 · Jobs that lead here
The reverse view: occupations whose skills already cover much of what a boring machine operator does. The figure is how much of this job each one brings.
- grinding machine operator 78% covered · difficulty 26.1
- laser cutting machine operator 78% covered · difficulty 26.1
- water jet cutter operator 77% covered · difficulty 27.9
- surface grinding machine operator 76% covered · difficulty 28.5
- spark erosion machine operator 73% covered · difficulty 31.4
- drill press operator 71% covered · difficulty 35.1
- metalworking lathe operator 70% covered · difficulty 36.2
- spot welder 68% covered · difficulty 36.8
- wood boring machine operator 65% covered · difficulty 40.9
- laser marking machine operator 63% covered · difficulty 42.2
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Boring machine operator 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 a boring machine operator’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.